Pieces by Radical Philosophy

EDITORIAL CoIcI War Thinking No-one will expect us to have such illusions of grandeur as to publish a condemnation of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Big powers are not to be bothered by such Lilliputian salvoes. Nonetheless, we should be bothered by it, or rather by the way that the western media, western politicians, and […]

Should we defend philosophy? ‘Fight the cuts~’ The slogan has obvious validity when it is a matter of axing hospitals and nursery schools, of increasing the sizes of school classes and closing old people’s homes. And so the same slogan comes easily to hand when the proposed cuts are aimed at higher education. ‘Fighting the […]

BDITOIWlL NODS OAY SCHOOLS AND SOCIOBIOLOGY The main Radical Philosophy activity recently has been the holding of day schools. Two have been held so far this year, and a third is planned for the autumn. We see these as serving an important purpose. It has always been difficult, within the Raiical Philosophy movement, to develop […]

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 […]