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Contributors chris wilbert
is a lecturer in geography in the Department of Planning at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is co-editor (with Chris Philo) of Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human–Animal Relations (Routledge, 2000).
Ted benton
is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Natural Relations (Verso, 1993).
Alessandra tanesini
teaches philosophy at the University of Cardiff. She is the author of An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies (Blackwell, 1999) and Wittgenstein and Feminism (Polity, forthcoming).
Rafeeq hasan
is a recent graduate in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Howard caygill
is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of A Kant Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995). His latest book, Levinas and the Political, is forthcoming from Routledge. .
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No. 5, 2000 Published by Radical Philosophy Ltd.www.radicalphilosophy.com
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001COMMENTARY
No to Kyoto
Chris Wilbert ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2
One More Symptom: The Foot and Mouth Crisis in Britain
Ted Benton ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 7ARTICLES
In Search of Community: Mouffe, Wittgenstein and Cavell
Alessandra Tanesini …………………………………………………………………………. 12
Micropolitics: Leo Bersani and Conflicts in Contemporary Feminism
Rafeeq Hasan ………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
No Man’s Land: Reading Kant Historically
Howard Caygill ……………………………………………………………………………….. 31REVIEWS
Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic
Fredric Jameson …………………………………………………………………………….. 36
Julia Kristeva, The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of PsychoanalysisDominique Lecourt, The Mediocracy: French Philosophy since the Mid-1970s
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 40
Christopher Norris, Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions
Roger Harris ……………………………………………………………………………………. 42
Jonathan Michael Kaplan, The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research: Dangers for Social Policy
Terence Sullivan ………………………………………………………………………………. 45
John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
Sean Sayers ……………………………………………………………………………………. 48
Jacques Godbout, The World of the Gift
Andrew McGettigan ………………………………………………………………………… 49
Peter Osborne, ed., From an Aesthetic Point of View: Philosophy, Art and the Senses
Dominic Willsdon …………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Brian Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism
Jocelyn Maclure …………………………………………………………………………….. 53NEWS
Whose war?