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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
MARCH/APRIL 1999
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 gregory elliott
is the author of Labourism and the English Genius (Verso, 1993). His latest book is Perry Anderson: The Merciless Laboratory of History (University of Minnesota Press, 1998).
Roger foster
is a PhD candidate from New York working on Frankfurt Critical Theory.
William E. Connolly
is a Professor in the Department of Political Science,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His latest book is Why I am not a Secularist (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Agnes heller
is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York
Frédéric vandenberghe
lectures in sociology at Brunel, the University of West London. He is the author of a 2-volume study on theories of reification in German Social Thought (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
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Commentary
Via Dollaro$a: On the ‘Third Way’
Gregory Elliott ………………………………………………………………………………….. 2ARTICLES
Recognition and Resistance: Axel Honneth’s Critical Social Theory
Roger Foster ……………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Brain Waves, Transcendental Fields and Techniques of Thought
William E. Connolly …………………………………………………………………………. 19INTERVIEW
Post-Marxism and the Ethics of Modernity
Agnes Heller interviewed by Simon Tormey …………………………………….. 29REVIEWS
Theodor W. Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of MusicPamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlerʼs Reich
Ben Watson …………………………………………………………………………………….. 41
Manfred Frank, The Subject and the TextPatrick ffrench and Roland-François Lack, eds, The Tel Quel Reader
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 43
Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country
Gideon Calder …………………………………………………………………………………. 45
Kate Bornstein, My Gender WorkbookTom Digby, ed., Men Doing FeminismJoan Broadhurst Dixon and Eric J. Cassidy, eds, Virtual FuturesJohn MacInnes, The End of Masculinity
Martin Ryle ……………………………………………………………………………………… 47
Norman Geras, The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust
Michael Löwy ………………………………………………………………………………….. 49
Jennifer Hornsby, Simple Mindedness: In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind
Kathleen Lennon …………………………………………………………………………….. 50
Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida
Andrew Fisher ………………………………………………………………………………… 51
Judith Still, Feminine Economies: Thinking Against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century
Carol Watts ……………………………………………………………………………………… 53OBITUARY
Niklas Luhmann, 1927–1998
Frédéric Vandenberghe ……………………………………………………………………. 54CONFERENCE REPORT
World Congress of Philosophy Report