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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 1999
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Joseph McCarney, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
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Howard Feather, Kevin Magill,
Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous,
Peter Osborne (Reviews), Stella Sandford,
Alessandra Tanesini
Contributors fred halliday
teaches international relations at LSE. His most recent books are Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power (Macmillan, 1999) and Nation and Religion in the Middle East (al-Saqi, 1998).
Henry staten
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. His books include Wittgenstein and Derrida (1994) and Nietzscheʼs Voice (Cornell University Press, 1990).
John roberts
is the author of Selected Errors (Pluto Press, 1992) and The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday (Manchester University Press, 1997), and editor of Art Has No History! The Making and Unmaking of Modern Art (Verso, 1994).
Malcolm bull
ʼs Seeing Things Hidden is published by Verso in December. He is a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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Commentary
The Significance of the Twentieth Century
Fred Halliday …………………………………………………………………………………….. 2ARTICLES
‘Radical Evil’ Revived: Hitler, Kant, Luther, Neo-Lacanianism
Henry Staten …………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Philosophizing the Everyday: The Philosophy of Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Studies
John Roberts ………………………………………………………………………………….. 16
Hearing the Silence
Malcolm Bull …………………………………………………………………………………… 30REVIEWS
Peter Coates, Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient TimesTim Hayward, Political Theory and Ecological Values
Kate Soper ……………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Jan Golinski, Making Knowledge Natural: Constructivism and the History of Science
Roger Harris ……………………………………………………………………………………. 39
Morris Dickstein, ed., The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law and Culture
Stephen Mulhall ……………………………………………………………………………… 41
Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity
Harry Harootunian …………………………………………………………………………… 43
Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method
Steve Giles ……………………………………………………………………………………… 45
Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology
Jean-Jacques Lecercle …………………………………………………………………….. 47
Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 49
Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr, Anthony Giddens and Modern Social TheoryStjepan G. Mestrovic, Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist
Mike Gane ………………………………………………………………………………………. 51
Étienne Balibar, Spinoza and PoliticsSteven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Andrew Collier ……………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece
Yael Navaro-Yashin ………………………………………………………………………….. 53CONFERENCE REPORTS
Hegel Society of Great Britain
Stewart Martin ……………………………………………………………………………….. 55
Society for European Philosophy