R A D I C A L P H I L O S O P H Ya 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
SEPT/OCT 1998
Contentseditorial collective
Chris Arthur, Nadine Cartner, Andrew Chitty, Andrew Collier, Diana Coole,
Peter Dews, Roy Edgley, Howard Feather,
Jean Grimshaw, Joseph McCarney, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous,
Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Sean Sayers, Alessandra Tanesini
Editorial group
Howard Feather, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne (Reviews), Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini
Contributors mary mcintosh
is the author of ʻThe Homosexual Roleʼ (1968) and, with Michèle Barrett, The Anti-Social Family (1982). She was a founding editor of Feminist Review.
Carol watts
teaches in the Department of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is currently writing a book on the feminization of culture in the 1760s.
Michael schwartz
teaches in the Department of Fine Arts, Augusta State University, Georgia.
Alan johnson
is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences,
Edge Hill University College.
Alessandro ferrara
teaches social theory at the Università di Roma ʻLa Sapienzaʼ.
He is the author of Reflective Authenticity (Routledge, 1998) and Justice and Judgment (Sage, 1998).
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Commentary
Dependency Culture? Welfare, Women and Work
Mary McIntosh ………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 ARTICLES
Time and the Working Mother: Kristeva’s ‘Women’s Time’ Revisited
Carol Watts ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Critical Reproblemization: Foucault and the Task of Modern Philosophy
Michael Schwartz ……………………………………………………………………………. 19
Left Rawlsianism and Social Philosophy: A Response to ‘Philosophy in Germany’
Alessandro Ferrara ………………………………………………………………………….. 30
The Affinities of Richard Rorty and Edward Bellamy:
A Response to Jonathan Rée
Alan Johnson ………………………………………………………………………………….. 33REVIEWS
Marcus Roberts, Analytical Marxism: A Critique
Andrew Chitty …………………………………………………………………………………. 37
Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseTM
Alessandra Tanesini …………………………………………………………………………. 41
George Sher, Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and PoliticsShane OʼNeill, Impartiality in Context
David Archard ………………………………………………………………………………….. 42
Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, eds, Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory
Adam Beck ……………………………………………………………………………………… 44
R.D. Hinshelwood, Therapy or Coercion?Martin Stanton, Out of Order: Clinical Work and Unconscious Process
Ian Craib …………………………………………………………………………………………. 46
Tom Steele, The Emergence of Cultural Studies 1945–1965
Martin Ryle ……………………………………………………………………………………… 47
Jeffrey Reiman, Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice
David Stevens …………………………………………………………………………………. 49
Jeffrey A. Gauthier, Hegel and Feminist Social Criticism
Alison Stone …………………………………………………………………………………… 50
J.J. Clarke, Oriental Enlightenment
David Archard ………………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Timothy F. Murphy, Gay Science
Robert Alan Brookey ……………………………………………………………………….. 52OBITUARY
Jean-François Lyotard, 1924–1998
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 53 NEWS
‘Affectivity’, The British Society for Phenomenology Conference
Robin Durie …………………………………………………………………………………….. 55
John Macmurray Conference
Andrew Collier ………………………………………………………………………………… 56 LETTER
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