Pieces by Radical Philosophy

EDITORIAL: THE POLITICS or CLARITY Jonathan Ree’s editorial in Radical Philosophy 20 raised important questions about the role of Radical Philosophy in relation both to the political left and to the acade mic establishment – questions about the dangers of academicism, about the kinds of political and cultural action appropriate to Radical Philosophy, and so […]

EDITORIAL NOTES Although we have received few contributions in response to our request for articles on racism, we still hope to receive enough material to enable us to devote the whole, or a large part of, a future issue to this. In the meantime we publish in this issue a substantial, and no doubt in […]

NLB, are a token of this continuing diffusion.) Sec oodly, as Patton,,-shows, Althusser t s critics have been heavily selective in their lines of approach. Professor Julius Gould, whose Report on the radical The (once talismanic) Althusserian concept of ‘threat’ to higher education is examined in the news theoretical practice is here analysed in depth […]

NEWS Local groups There is little to be said tulder this heading at ,present. Bristol group seems to have declined as nobody from there has yet replied to requests for information, although it is known that the only staff participant in the group has recently decided to withdraw from active involvement in Radical Philosophy because […]

Notes This issue of Radical Philosophy appears in a situation where the interests of both its writers and readers are under threat. Not only is philosophy being threatened as a result of the economic crisis, but the philosophical frameworks used by radical groups over the last decade are directly under attack: the Open University is […]

1977, hc £10.00 B. M. G. Reardon, He”el’s Philosophy of Reliijon, London, Macmillan, 1977, hc £ 8. 95 J.Rosenbaum, ed., Rivette: Texts and Interviews, London, BFI, 1977, pb O. 75p J. Schwartz, ed., The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism, Santa Monica, Calif., Goodyear Pub Co, 1977, pb np M. Smith, The Underground and Education, London, Methuen, […]

Notes In this issue we publish an important study, the first to appear in Radical Philosophy, of sexism in philosophy. Michele Le Doeuff’s article, ‘Women and Philosophy’, breaks new ground in the analysis of the politics and history of philosophical practice. The depth and force of her argument lies in the thesis that the sexism […]

vention in education akin to those being contemplated at present in Britain) may suggest new ways of understanding the state of British philosophy. AbouIIhis issue Orthodox British philosophical theory is fe’eble and emaciated; it feeds on itself and becomes still thinner and weaker. The Radical Philosophy movement is originally a protest against this debility; and […]

way it feeds the craving it attempts to satisfy – where do we go from here? One feels that Ken Coates’ apt description of I. S. as ‘a rather shrill, if also intellectually infertile, sectarian grouping’ would find echoes in all the groupuscules, but has anyone done a close enough analysis of them to really […]

RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ELEVEN ,’Belgrade ProIesl In the last three issues of Radical Philosophy we-reported on the continued ba”rr~!sment of philosophers in Yugoslavia. The following letter from eight Belgrade philosophy professors was sent to the Assembly of the Socia~ist Republic of Serbia earlier this year The seven year long campaign against us – in which, in […]

symphonies, which so often submit to the imposed falsehood of a , soc iali st-optimist’ programne, nevertheless stand up ~s authentic creations of the sUffering artist, voicing an imminent critique of dominant ideology through the sheer -~nbalance and rebarbative crudeness of their structure. In these interpretive matters, where aesthetics meets with the phenome~­ olegy of […]

Radical Philos…..y Twelve Philosophy 4 reslival The Radical Philosophy Group will hold a conference at Balliol College, Oxford, on 10, 11, 12 January 1976. The aim of the conference is to enable people to meet and talk winh one another on the basis of a common concern with the connections between politics and theory, in […]

Ne~s Doctor Althusser In June Louis Althusser, of international reputation and after having taught for twenty-five years at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, travelled to Amiens to defend his doctoral ‘thesis’ before a local jury. It has not been explained 1Io1hy Al thusser bQthered to do this or what it mea~t to him personally […]