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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
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1999
Editorial collective
Chris Arthur, Andrew Chitty, Andrew Collier, Diana Coole, 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 alan sinfield
is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His latest book, Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming from Yale University Press, 1999.
Simon bromley
teaches international political economy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Middle East Politics (Polity Press, 1994).
Stella sandford
teaches philosophy at Middlesex University.
Étienne balibar
is Professor of Philosophy at University Paris X. A new collection of his essays, Politics and the Other Scene, is forthcoming from Verso, 1999. Typing (WP input) by Jo Foster Tel: 0181 341 9238 Layout by Petra Pryke Tel: 0171 243 1464 Copyedited and typeset by Robin Gable and Lucy Morton Tel: 01981 241164 Production by Stella Sandford and Peter Osborne Printed by Russell Press,
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Cover:
Boí Taüll, 1999.
Apology:
Radical Philosophy would like to apologize to Geraldine Marks for unauthorized and derogatory use of Gerhkin on the cover of RP 92.
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Commentary
Virtually Undetectable: The Andrew Sullivan Phenomenon
Alan Sinfield ………………………………………………………………………………………. 2ARTICLES
The Space of Flows and Timeless Time: Manuel Castells’s The Information Age
Simon Bromley ………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Contingent Ontologies: Sex, Gender and ‘Woman’ in Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler
Stella Sandford ………………………………………………………………………………… 18INTERVIEW
Conjectures and Conjunctures
Étienne Balibar interviewed by Peter Osborne ………………………………….. 30REVIEWS
Edmond Wright and Elizabeth Wright, eds, The Žižek Reader
Ben Watson ……………………………………………………………………………………… 42
Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism
Andrew Bowie …………………………………………………………………………………. 44
Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life
Anthony Arblaster ……………………………………………………………………………. 46
Maria Pia Lara, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere
Robin May Schott …………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Maurice Godelier, The Enigma of the Gift
Judith Still ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 50
Alessandra Tanesini, An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies
Alison Ainley ……………………………………………………………………………………. 52
Alessandro Ferrara, Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity
Elliot Jurist ………………………………………………………………………………………. 53
Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
David Macey …………………………………………………………………………………….. 55
Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche and the PoliticalDaniel W. Conway, Nietzscheʼs Dangerous Game
Francesca Cauchi ……………………………………………………………………………… 56
Henry Tam, Communitarianism
Tony Skillen ……………………………………………………………………………………… 57OBITUARY
Roy Edgley, 1925–1999