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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
112MARCH/APRIL 2002
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Contributors gita sahgal
is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Her latest video is Love Snatched: Forced Marriage and Multiculturalism.
Nick moss
ʼs book A Permanent Emergency: New Labour and Law and Order will be published by Verso in Autumn 2002.
Mark neocleous
teaches in the Department of Politics at Brunel University. His most recent book is The Fabrication of Social Order (Pluto Press, 2000).
Pheng cheah
teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is the author of Spectral Nationality (forthcoming) and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (Minnesota University Press, 1998).
Francis mulhern
is Professor of Critical Studies at Middlesex University. His latest book is Culture/Metaculture (Routledge, 2000).
Matthew hyland
is a contributor to Mute, Inventory and Datacide and has published widely in various netzines.
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Walking the Talk, 1999 Published by Radical Philosophy Ltd.www.radicalphilosophy.com
Commentary
Blair’s Jihad, Blunkett’s Crusade: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Britain’s Muslims
Gita Sahgal ………………………………………………………………………………………. 2
The Poor against the Poor? Race, Class and Anti-fascism
Nick Moss and Mark Neocleous ………………………………………………………… 6ARTICLES
The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the State
Pheng Cheah …………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
The End of Politics: Culture, Nation and Other Fundamentalisms
Francis Mulhern ………………………………………………………………………………. 25
Continuous Crisis: Historical Action and Passion in Negri’s Insurgencies
Matthew Hyland ……………………………………………………………………………… 31REVIEWS
J.M. Bernstein, Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics
Alastair Morgan ………………………………………………………………………………. 38
Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
John Sellars ……………………………………………………………………………………. 40
Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, IndividualizationJane Lewis, The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations
Lynne Segal …………………………………………………………………………………….. 42
Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the InternetB.K. Ridley, On ScienceSlavoj Ziek, On Belief
Andrew McGettigan ………………………………………………………………………… 44
Jacques Bidet and Eustache Kouvélakis, eds, Dictionnaire Marx contemporain
Peter Hallward ………………………………………………………………………………… 47
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Martin Ryle ……………………………………………………………………………………… 50
John McCumber, Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era
Bruce Krajewski ………………………………………………………………………………. 51
Howard Feather, Intersubjectivity and Contemporary Social Theory: The Everyday as Critique
Serge McGuinness ………………………………………………………………………….. 53
Mark Cowling and Paul Reynolds, eds, Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond