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 y© Radical Philosophy Ltd
MARCH/APRIL 1998
Contentscommentary
Science-envy: Sokal, Science and the Police
Bruce Robbins …………………………………………………………………………………… 2ARTICLES
Intersubjectivity and Openness to Change:
Michael Theunissen’s Negative Theology of Time
Chris Thornhill …………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Prequel to the Heidegger Debate: Audry and Sartre
Ian H. Birchall ………………………………………………………………………………….. 19
Philosophizing beyond Philosophy: Walter Benjamin Reviewed
Peter Osborne …………………………………………………………………………………. 28
Mind, Reality and Politics
Andrew Collier ………………………………………………………………………………… 38REVIEWS
Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of HobbesBrian Vickers, ed., Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works
Jonathan Rée ………………………………………………………………………………….. 44
Jodi Dean, ed., Feminism and the New Democracy: Resisting the Political
Anne Seller ……………………………………………………………………………………… 46
Charles E. Reagan, Paul Ricoeur: His Life and His WorkRichard Kearney, ed., Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics of Action
Lois McNay …………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Katharine Conley, Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 49
Dwight Furrow, Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral PhilosophyMichael Dillon, Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought
Gideon Calder …………………………………………………………………………………. 50
John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys, eds, Applying: To Derrida
Willy Maley …………………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Dennis Patterson, ed., A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
David Archard ………………………………………………………………………………….. 52NEWS
Women Philosophers and the RAE
Kimberly Hutchings …………………………………………………………………………. 54LETTER
TomHickey ……………………………………………………………………………………… 55Editorial 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
Issue editor
Joseph McCarney
Reviews editor
Sean Sayers
Contributors bruce robbins
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. His books include Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993), and he is an editor of the journal Social Text.
Chris thornhill
teaches Critical Theory and German political theory at Kingʼs College, London. His special interests are political theology, hermeneutics and German political philosophy in general.
Ian H. Birchall
is the author of Spectre of Babeuf (Macmillan, 1997).
Peter osborne
is the author of The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (Verso, 1995) and co-editor and contributor to Walter Benjaminʼs Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (Routledge, 1994).
Andrew collier
teaches at the University of Southampton and is the author of Critical Realism (Verso, 1994).
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