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R a 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 yPublished by Radical Philosophy Ltd.www.radicalphilosophy.com
may/juNE 2010
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Cover image:
Éric Alliez, Election, 2010
Editorial collective
Claudia Aradau, Mat hew Charles,
David Cunningham, Howard Feather,
Peter Hal ward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
Stel a Sandford, Chris Wilbert
Contributors claudia aradau
is Lecturer in International Studies at the Open University and author of Rethinking Traf icking in Women: Politics Out of Security (Palgrave, 2008).
Éric al iez
is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University. ‘Body without Image’, his piece on Ernesto Neto’s Leviathan Toth, appeared in RP 156 (July/August 2009).
Stuart elden
is a Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. His most recent book is Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). He is currently completing a history of the concept of territory.
Kolja lindner
is a PhD candidate in political science at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, working on a dissertation on ‘Authoritarian Populism: France under Nicolas Sarkozy’,
Lynne segal
is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck Col ege, London.
Her most recent book is Making Trouble: Life and Politics (Serpents Tail, 2007)
Commentary
The Myth of Preparedness
Claudia aradau…………………………………………………………………………………… 2aRTiClES
What is – or What is Not – Contemporary French Philosophy, Today?
Éric alliez …………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, Territory and Großraum
Stuart Elden …………………………………………………………………………………….. 18
Marx’s Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Studies and Marx Scholarship
Kolja lindner ……………………………………………………………………………………. 27COmmENT
Feminism Did Not Fail
lynne Segal ……………………………………………………………………………………… 43REviEwS
Sylvère Lotringer, ed., The German IssueGudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper, ‘Notstandgesetze von Deiner Hand’: Briefe 1968/1969
Esther leslie …………………………………………………………………………………….. 49
G.A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?
alex Callinicos …………………………………………………………………………………. 53
Bret Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkul , Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze
Chris wilbert …………………………………………………………………………………….. 55
Jim McGuigan, Cool Capitalism
mark Fisher ……………………………………………………………………………………… 56
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza
antonio venezia ……………………………………………………………………………….. 58
Erdmut Wizisla, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship
matthew Charles ……………………………………………………………………………… 60ChESS NEwS
Benjamin and Brecht: Attrition in Friendship
andrew mcGettigan …………………………………………………………………………. 62uNivERSiTy NEwS
Student Control in Croatia
Toni Prug …………………………………………………………………………………………. 65ObiTuaRy
The Incremental Anarchist: Colin Ward, 1924–2010