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Timely Meditations

Timely Meditations Jonathan Ree Review Essay on Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 201pp. £25 hb, £7.95 pb, 0521353815 hb, o 521 36781 6 pb. It is now some years since Richard Rorty broke with American analytic philosophy, for reasons he spelt out in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1980) and Consequences of Pragmatism (1982). He had come to the conclusion that it was committed to an...

Critique without ontology: Genealogy, collective subjects and the deadlocks of evidence

...Bruno Latour’, New Literary History 47:2–3 (2106), 221. ^ Ibid., 221–2. ^ Jonathan Luke Austin, ‘A Parasitic Critique for International Relations’, International Political Sociology 13:2 (2019), 215–31. ^ Felski, ‘Introduction’, 221. ^ Amia Srinivasan, ‘Genealogy, Epistemology, and Worldmaking’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 119:2 (2019), 127–56. ^ Raymond Geuss, ‘Genealogy as Critique’, European Journal of Philosophy 10:2 (2002), 209–1...

‘The rush to the intimate’: Counterinsurgency and the cultural turn

...and Education Conference, Orlando FL, 2007; Patrick Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, David Traum, Stacy Marsella and Bill Swartout, ‘The More the Merrier: Multi-party Negotiation with Virtual Humans’, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Vancouver 2007, http://ict.usc.edu/projects/integrated_virtual_humans/C40. [archive] 46. ^ Elizabeth Losh, ‘In Country with Tactical Iraqi: Trust, Identity and Language Lea...

Metaphor and Metaphysics: The end of Philosophy and Derrida

Mataphor and Metaphysics: The End of Philosophy and Derrida Jonathan Ree * Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, Harvester, xxiv + 330pp., £25.00, 1983 Christopher Norris, The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy, Methuen, 201pp, £4.95, 1983 ENDS AND MEANS I~ ‘The Ends of Man’ hs~ed between 1~67 and one of the ten essays, first pub1972, which make up Margins of PhIlosophy – Dernda refers to an almost-forgotten figure in Fre...

Academic Philosophy and Radical Philosophy

...ing letters and telephone conversations with Tony Skillen, Jerry Cohen and Jonathan Ree, I arranged a meeting at Sussex to discuss the issues. Fortunately, Jonathan was able to come from Oxford and give his paper “Professional Philosophers” (reprinted above) to a big heterogeneous audience. We had further discussions in the course of the weekend, and there have been more since. My thoughts here can be read as a response to Jonathan (with whom on t...

58 Reviews

...e-Thatcherite, if not pre-Socratic or pre-mammalian sense very wet indeed. Jonathan Ree DIFFERENCES Denise Riley, ‘Am I that name?’ Feminism and the category of ‘women’ in history, London, Macmillan, 1988. 126pp., £29.50 hb, £9.99 pb., 0 333 3461 2 hb, 0 333 346130 pb Denise Riley adopts a number of strategies, more or less complex, to suggest that the term ‘women’, like the term ‘woman’, cannot be taken to be unambiguous and invariant in meaning....

Micropolitics: Leo Bersani and conflicts in contemporary feminism

...on the part of the self-present subject to relinquish his own sovereignty. Jonathan Dollimore suggests that Bersanian ethics lies in the subjectʼs recognition of the value of powerlessness, but by powerlessness [Bersani] means not gentleness, non-aggressiveness, or even passivity, but rather the potential for a radical disintegration and humiliation of the self … a kind of death. [19] How does ethics as a ʻradical disintegration … a kind of deathʼ...

Black Socrates?: Questioning the philosophical tradition

...y, with Homi Bhaba. I am particularly grateful for the careful comments of Jonathan Ree and Peter Osborne, although I don’t think I have fully responded to either of their criticisms. 2. See Hegel, ‘Tragedy and the Impiety of Socrates’, from Hegel on Tragedy, eds. A. and H. Paolucci (Harper and Row, New York, 1975), pp. 345-66; and Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, tr. W. Kaufmann (Vintage, New York, 1967); and ‘The Problem of Socrates’ , in Twilig...

Beyond Barthes: Rethinking the phenomenology of photography

...y, to Barthes’s critique of literary classicism as it is developed in S/Z (Jonathan Cape, London, 1975), and addressed in Criticism and Truth (Athlone, London, 1987). 26. ^ ‘The review of Camera Lucida as a work of fiction is yet to be written’. Victor Burgin, ‘Re-reading Camera Lucida’, in The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity, Humanities Press International, Atlantic Highlands, 1986, p. 88. 27. ^ Burgin writes of any possible synthe...

Petrified life: Adorno and Agamben

...g, than with the existential conception outlined in Being and Time. 6. See Jonathan Barnes, ʻMetaphysicsʼ, in The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, p. 94. 7. ^ Giorgio Agamben, ʻOn Potentialityʼ, in Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, ed. and trans. with an introduction by Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 1999, p. 177. 8. ^ Aristotle, Metaphy...

The politics of miscarriage

...tions, 49 of whom were convicted with seven more convicted since 2012. See Jonathan Watts, ‘El Salvador: Where Women Are Thrown Into Jail For Losing a Baby’, The Guardian, 17 December 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/17/el-salvador-anti-abortion-law-premature-birth-miscarriage-attempted-murder. ^ ‘Miscarriage’, last modified 1 June 2018, https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/miscarriage/. ^ This is arguably attributable to the...

American Philosophy: R.I.P.; Crossing the Channel; The Astrological Scene

...Presbyterian theology, that provides in his view a more secure thread from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey {this is shortly. to be published in book form as Churchmen and Philosophers. The search for a spirit of American philosophy, implied in the RIP enterprise, is in fact an ideal type of the general investigation of American exceptionalism. The quest for American distinctiveness or exceptionalism is, in turn, a heuristic device for academic inqu...

Hearing the silence

...rience it in the same way? I see a voice This is the question addressed in Jonathan Réeʼs remarkable study of the history and philosophical implications of deafness, I See a Voice.* The Sirens do not feature in Réeʼs book, but the myth can be used to articulate some of its recurring themes. The central, and by far the longest, section of I See a Voice is devoted to a history of deaf education from the seventeenth century to the present. This is fo...

Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference

...Sources of the Self, p. 34. For this reason, the reservations expressed by Jonathan Ree about the philosophical cogency of the concept of identity do not have application to Taylor’s notion (,Internationality’, Radical Philosophy 60, Spring 1992, especially pp. 8t). Ree’s justified misgivings stem from Locke’s introduction of the problem of ‘personal identity’ into philosophical discourse: ‘by virtue of whatfact am I now the same person as I was i...

Five theses on sabotage in the shadow of fossil capital

...h moods and (revolutionary) counter-moods, as these have been theorised by Jonathan Flatley, 9 dispositions and counter-dispositions channel struggle as poiesis – as contest over world-making. It seems appropriate then to glean the shape and feel of counter-disposition from poetics. 10 Ida Börjel’s recent poetry manifesto, Miximum Ca’Canny The Sabotage Manuals, affords a vivid means of such gleaning. Börjel’s manual offers an orientation towards t...

An Editor Speaks

...years ago’. This reverses the diagnosis of the Editorial in RP16 (also by Jonathan Ree) which pronounced orthodox British philosophy in the spring of 1977 to be ‘feeble and emaciated; it feeds on itself and becomes still thinner and weaker’ .. Perhaps this is an unfair comparison tomake: Editorials, like party lines, are ephemeral creatures, designed to fit the passing ‘conjuncture’ But it is surpriSing that the RP20 piece gives no indication of...

Spinoza’s law: The epicurean definition of the law in the Theological Political Treatise

...iversity Press, 2016), 127. ^ Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise, ed. Jonathan Israel, trans. Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 58. ^ As I outline in detail in Authority and Utility, the relation between monism and practical judgment, or phronesis, is a key characteristic of epicureanism and is a recurring theme in Spinoza. I cannot take up this issue in all its complexity here. ^ It is im...

Long Live Literature?: Englit, Radical Criticism and Cultural Studies

...1880-1920,1986 Valentine Cunningham, British Writers of the Thirties, 1988 Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence, 1991 Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds), Political Shakespeare, 1985 Terry Eagleton, Criticism and Ideology, 1976 Antony Easthope, Literary into Cultural Studies, 1991 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic, 1979 Frank Gloversmith (ed.), Class, Culture and Social Change: A New View of the 1930s, 1980 Stephen...

Massacre of the Innocents: Derrida and the Cambridge Dons;Waiter Benjamin Centenary; Women and the History of Philosophy; Singer Silenced; Philosophy for Children

...accounts of the affair were in Liberation (17 May) and Die Zeit (22 May). Jonathan Ree Waiter Benjamin Centenary Of all the figures of the intellectual left in the febrile German culture of the 1930s, Walter Benjamin is perhaps the one now most closely associated with the pathos of the times. From his almost total obscurity prior to the publication of Adorno’ s twovolume edition of his writings in 1955, Benjamin has emerged as the most celebrated...

Homosexual politics in the wake of AIDS

...hat? The confusion of the current configuration informs three recent books: Jonathan Dollimoreʼs Sex, Literature and Censorship, Mandy Merckʼs In Your Face, and, in a symptomatic way, Mark Simpson and Steve Zeelandʼs The Queen is Dead.*Dollimoreʼs collection of essays is in certain ways a sceptical re-engagement with themes he has addressed in previous books. He rereads Freud and Bataille, among others, as he examines the assumptions that underlie...

Playing the code: Allegories of control in Civilization

...ontrol Exists After Decentralization, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2004. 17. ^ Jonathan Postel, ʻTransmission Control Protocolʼ, RFC 793, September 1981. WWW.NEWHUMANIST.ORG.UK Ifyou don’t read New Humanist, you’re not reading: Nick Cohen on the right to criticise religion; Christopher Lord on America’s hidden part in the Darfur tragedy; an exclusive extract from Richard Dawkins’s latest book; Elia Zureik on the conflict between statehood and national...