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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© Radical Philosophy Ltd
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1998
Editorial collective
Chris Arthur, 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 leonore tiefer
is a New York City sexologist and clinical psychologist. Her most recent book is Sex is Not a Natural Act, and Other Essays (Westview, 1995).
Sean watson
teaches social theory at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Eléni varikas
teaches political science at the University of Paris VIII.
Charlene haddock seigfried
is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.
Kate soper
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North London. She is the author of What is Nature? (Blackwell, 1995).
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Commentary
Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol and Substance
Leonore Tiefer …………………………………………………………………………………… 2ARTICLES
The New Bergsonism: Discipline, Subjectivity and Freedom
Sean Watson …………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
‘The Burden of Our Time’: Hannah Arendt and the Critique of Political Modernity
Eléni Varikas ……………………………………………………………………………………. 17
Perspectives on Pragmatism: A Reply to Lorraine Code
Charlene Haddock Seigfried …………………………………………………………….. 25INTERVIEW
An Alternative Hedonism
Kate Soper interviewed by Ted Benton …………………………………………….. 28REVIEWS
Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 39
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition
Chris Arthur …………………………………………………………………………………….. 42
Keith Ansell Pearson, Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman ConditionKeith Ansell Pearson, ed., Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer
Iain MacKenzie ………………………………………………………………………………… 44
Maureen Ramsay, Whatʼs Wrong with Liberalism?
Bob Brecher ……………………………………………………………………………………. 45
Bernard Burgoyne and Mary Sullivan, eds, The Klein–Lacan Dialogues
Rosalind Minsky ……………………………………………………………………………… 47
Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
Christian Kerslake ……………………………………………………………………………. 49
Karen J. Warren, Ecofeminism: Woman, Culture, Nature
Kath Renark Jones ………………………………………………………………………….. 50
Matthew Festenstein, Pragmatism and Political Theory
Gideon Calder …………………………………………………………………………………. 51
Lewis Edwin Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Austin Harrington ……………………………………………………………………………. 53NEWS
Negri in Prison