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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
Editorial collective
Chris Arthur, Ted Benton, Nadine Cartner,
Andrew Collier, Diana Coole, Peter Dews,
Roy Edgley, Gregory Elliott, Howard Feather, Jean Grimshaw, Kathleen Lennon,
Joseph McCarney, Kevin Magill, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Sean Sayers,
Kate Soper
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Stella Sandford
Reviews editor
Sean Sayers
Contributors simon bromley
teaches International Political Economy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Middle East Politics (Polity Press, 1994).
Simon jarvis
teaches English at Robinson College, Cambridge. His book Adorno: A Critical Introduction is forthcoming from Polity Press, Spring 1998.
Craig brandist
is HRB Research Fellow in the Bakhtin Centre and Department of Russian and Slavonic Literature at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (Macmillan, 1996).
Bruce robbins
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. His books include Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993). He is an editor of the journal Social Text.
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SEPT/OCT 1997COMMENTARY
CULTURE CLASH
Simon Bromley …………………………………………………………………………………. 2ARTICLES
THE COASTLINE OF EXPERIENCE: MATERIALISM AND METAPHYSICS IN ADORNO
Simon Jarvis …………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
BAKHTIN, CASSIRER AND SYMBOLIC FORMS
Craig Brandist …………………………………………………………………………………. 20
COSMOPOLITANISM AND BOREDOM
Bruce Robbins …………………………………………………………………………………. 28REVIEWS
Peter Osborne, The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde
Gordon Finlayson ……………………………………………………………………………. 33
Michael Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology
Alex Callinicos ………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Jacques Bouveresse, Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the UnconsciousDonald Levy, Freud Among the Philosophers: The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and its Philosophical Critics
David Snelling …………………………………………………………………………………. 38
Linda Martín Alcoff, Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory
Gill Howie ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 40
Michael Freeden, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach
David Archard ………………………………………………………………………………….. 41
Christopher J. Arthur, ed., Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation
Ian Hunt ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 43
Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy, Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 44
Stanley Rosen, The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzscheʼs Zarathustra
Francesca Cauchi …………………………………………………………………………….. 45
Robyn Ferrell, Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan
Margaret Whitford …………………………………………………………………………… 46
John D. Cash, Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland
Paul Gilbert …………………………………………………………………………………….. 47
Alan How, The Habermas–Gadamer Debate and the Nature of the Social: Back to Bedrock
Ian Craib …………………………………………………………………………………………. 48
Véronique M. Foti, ed., Merleau-Ponty: Difference, Materiality, Painting
Diana Coole …………………………………………………………………………………….. 49NEWS
DICTATING RESEARCH: Feminist Philosophy and the RAE
Christine Battersby ………………………………………………………………………….. 50
The Case of Economics
Frederick S. Lee and Sandra Harley ………………………………………………….. 51OBITUARY
Wal Suchting, 1931–1997
John Rosenthal ……………………………………………………………………………….. 55
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