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RA d i c a l p h i l o s o p h y
a j o u r n a l o f s o c i a l i s t a n d f e m i n i s t p h i l o s o p h y
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2000104
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Alessandra Tanesini
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Howard Feather, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne (Reviews), Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini
Contributors madeleine davis
teaches politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Howard caygill
is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include A Kant Dictionary (1995) and Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (1998). His new book, Levinas and the Political, will be published by Routledge in 2001.
Bill schwarz
is a Reader in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
His Memories of Empire in TwentiethCentury England is forthcoming from Verso (2001).
Jay bernstein
is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His book Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (Cambridge University Press) is forthcoming.
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Commentary
Dictators and Democrats in Latin America: But Can the Poor Tell the Difference?
Madeleine Davis ……………………………………………………………………………….2ARTICLES
Levinas’s Political Judgement: The Esprit Articles, 1934–1983
Howard Caygill …………………………………………………………………………………6
Actually Existing Postcolonialism
Bill Schwarz ……………………………………………………………………………………16
Social Signs and Natural Bodies: On T.J. Clark’s Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Jay Bernstein ………………………………………………………………………………….25REVIEWS
G.A. Cohen, If Youʼre an Egalitarian, How Come Youʼre So Rich?
Sean Sayers ……………………………………………………………………………………39
Lutz Koepnick, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of PowerEsther Leslie, Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism
Giles Peaker ……………………………………………………………………………………41
Alexander García Düttmann, Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle for Recognition
Peter Hallward ………………………………………………………………………………..44
Ross Poole, Nation and Identity
Bruce Robbins …………………………………………………………………………………46
Kimberly Hutchings, International Political Theory: Rethinking Ethics in a Global EraMolly Cochran, Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach
Beate Jahn ……………………………………………………………………………………..48
Ken Hirschkop, Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy
Craig Brandist …………………………………………………………………………………50
Raoul Vaneigem, A Cavalier History of Surrealism
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………51
Giorgio Agamben, The Man Without Content
Espen Hammer ……………………………………………………………………………….53
Alphonso Lingis, Dangerous Emotions
Benjamin Noys ……………………………………………………………………………….54
Mark J. Smith, Rethinking State Theory
Mark Neocleous ………………………………………………………………………………55NEWS
Traces: Unravelling the Cold War in Southeast Asia