From Virginia Woolf to the Post-Moderns: Developments in a Feminist Aesthetic

...ver/ey Brown, Deborah Cameron, Joan Copjec, Mark Cousins, Elizabeth Cowie, Jonathan Dollimore, Barbara Freeman, Paul Hirst, Mary Jacobus, Lisa Jardine, E.Ann Kaplan, Peter Middleton, Juliet Mitchell, Toril Moi, Steve Neale, Andrew Parker, Richard Rand, Paul Robertshaw, Jacqueline Rose, Andrew Ross, Elaine Showalter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Simon Watney, Jeffrey Weeks. Vol.S £5.95 Overseas £6.95 or $11 .95 Institutions £12 Overseas £14 or $24 M...

English Philosophy in the Fifties

...2 November 1957); cited in Ritchie, Success Stories, pp. 172, 157. 25 See Jonathan Ree, Proletarian Philosophers, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984. 26 Viscount Samuel, Memoirs, London, Cresset Press, 1945, pp. 248-9; see also the letter from Viscount Samuel, W.D. Ross and Lord Lindsay of Birker, Mind LV, 219, July 1946, p. 287. See the chapter on ‘The triumph of positive thinking’ in Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional M an, London, Routledge a...
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Wishful theory and sexual politics

...Thus Satan, and Eve too, who after all desires the apple not from any old tree, but rather the tree of knowledge, which is of course the one forbidden her. Mythologically, that desire, death and knowledge were all born in the first transgression. In the creation of the modern pervert this connection of perversion with dissident knowledge was largely but not entirely eradicated. It is recoverable in the paradox that desire, and perverse desire most...

Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?

...s Completes, Third Edition, Paris, 1846, I, 102, xxxv, 191, 1.5~ [J Il See Jonathan Ree, Proletarian Philosophers: Problems l!!. Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940, Oxford University Press, 1984. (1″2JSO Marcuse went wrong when he suggested that “acade’mic sadomasochism, self-humiliation and self-denunciation” were introduced into philosophy by Wittgenstein and Austin; they are, rather, a consequence of the structural constraints on the philo...

On Revolutionising the Darwin Industry: A Centennial Retrospect

...nts in Britain and America, the early retirement of senior academics, the freezing of posts, and the accompanying decline in enrolment of career-minded graduate students; and, last but not least, the direct threat to Darwin research projects, like the Collected Letters, from funding bodies susceptible to political influence by the religious and political Right. No one today can argue that the Darwin industry has its own inherent momentum or develo...

A Marxist heresy?: Accelerationism and its discontents

Dossier: Future Stasis

...dded); Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity, trans Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013, p. 257. 2. ^ See, among various books, Paul Virilio, The Great Accelerator, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2012; The Futurism of the Instant: Stop–Eject, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010. 3. ^ Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, Verso, London and New York,...

On ‘African Philosophy’: With an Introduction by Jonathan Rée

...o much better than we have. This, obviously, presupposes the existence of freedom of expression, which in varying degrees so many of our present-day political regimes are endeavouring to stifle. But this means that the responsibility of African philosophers (and of all African scientists) extends far beyond the narrow limits of their discipline and that they cannot afford the luxury of self-satisfied apoliticisrn or quiescent complacency about the...

Language, truth and politics: A conception of philosophy

...existing multitude of legal, quasi-legal, and conventional impediments to free speech, the assumption based on legal freedom is clearly unrealistic, especially in the age of the mass media. Vf1at is required is that everyone with something to say can actually say it, effectively as well as without fear, and this means that the media of communication must be open and available and not only that a vast number of sanctions must be got rid of. In Mill...

Why Habermas?

...ssue on pp261-71. LACAN: A REPLY TO REE ANTONY EASTHOPE I won’t comment on Jonathan Ree’s harsh and over-personalised attack on Coward and Ellis (Radical Philosophy 23) except to say it was at the least unfraternal – whatever the inadequacies of Coward and Ellis’ position it is not one that offers much comfort to Sir Keith Joseph and his like. But it was a pity that Lacan, about whom we are sure to hear a lot more, should first surface in Radical...

Feminism and Images of Autonomy

...esence, it needs to reconstruct its one-sidedly negative understanding of freedom as a freedom from the oppressive familial ties which mark a subordinated femininity. Contemporary feminism has now the opportunity and the task of developing an image of the emancipated life which stri ves to marry or mediate freedom and dependence as two reconcilable needs. I am not, therefore, advocating the road taken by the later Friedan in The Second Stage and G...

Fielding and the Moralists

...s. If we were deprived or where being deprived of such basic liberties as freedom of speech and assembly, the right to stand for public office, libetty ·of conscience and freedom of thought, including the right to print, circulate and promulgate our beliefs, and there was no effective legal or nonviolent, non-legal way, such as by civil disobedience, to correct this situation, then we would be justified in violent rebellion or revolution, if we so...

Philosophizing beyond philosophy: Walter Benjamin reviewed

..., in stark contrast to some other recent biographies of philosophers. (See Jonathan Réeʼs review of Ray Monkʼs Bertrand Russell, ʻPoor Bertieʼ, in RP 81.) Yet one should not mistake Brodersenʼs Walter Benjamin for an intellectual biography. It is not sufficiently interested in ideas. Bernd Witteʼs Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Wayne State University Press, 1991; translating the German edition of 1985) is far superior on that score. Th...

Consumed by night’s fire: The dark romanticism of Guy Debord

...-time/two years part-time, evenings. Fol owing a compulsory course on Kantʼs Critique of Pure Reason, options include: adorno, derrida, gadamer, habermas, hegel, heidegger, husserl, kierkegaard, marx, schopenhauer and Wittgenstein . Programme leaders: Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée and Professor Alexander García Düttmann Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR Tel: 0181 362 5703tmadmissions@mdx.ac.uk MA...

Two views on recent anti-capitalist protests

...kant and Levinas MA Aesthetics and Art Theory includes: the aesthetic tradition, modernist aesthetics, romantic aesthetics, hegelʼs aesthetics, phenomenological aesthetics, and conceptualism and the end of art Core staf : Alexander García Düttmann, Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée and Stel a Sandford apply now for september 2001 Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR Tel: 020 8411 570 Email: tmadmissions@m...

22 News

...o focus on some articles in current issues of the magazine, beginning with Jonathan Ree’s editorial and Colin Gordon’s response, in numbers 20 and 21. In the discussion, there was a lot of support for the view that the magazine lacked variety in the length and 47 depth of its material. Two positive suggestions were: a big~page ‘request’ in the magazine for readers to write in and say what sort of articles, about what, they would like to see; and c...

Svelte Discourse’ and the Philosophy of Caution

...see W. 1. T. MitchelI (ed.), Against Theory (Chicago and London, 1985). 10 Jonathan Ree, ‘Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?’, RP 44, pp. 1-7 (p. 6) . ••••••••••••••••••••• The Journal of Film and Television 1988 issues include Cybernetics, Ownership, Ontology A Future for Left Culture7 The last Special Issue on’Race’ ••••••••••••••••••••• 1988 RATES (for 4 quarterly issues) £15.00: Individual inland £20.oo/US$38.oo*: Individual overse...

Marxism and Morality

...duate Corrunon Room Middlesex Polytechnic – Enfield: Roger Harris; Hendon: Jonathan Ree; Hornsey: Mike Dawney North London Polytechnic – Philip Edwards, Department of llistory and Philosophy, Polytechnic of North London, Prince of Wales Road ~;~~HESTER: S~)UTH~’lPTO:J: 1:1;,. ‘1.,~ ~’n 1< i,,' hC11'd ~~orman I D:lr~.vil1 Harry ';,'ilkins, lie:UCll-tme:1t L~,t~rsit~r 'ollegt~; :'t'rllrtmc~nt 1 :..::t ~,~lvid I: ~’...

Answering the question: What is to be done?: Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project

Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project

...Blair) the unmentioned elephant in the room. In practical terms, a tacit agreement to disagree, as the only basis for both coalition and diversity (as manifested in the various metropolitan, national, continental and global social forums), is undoubtedly unavoidable. In fact, it is desirable, on some level, as a democratic ʻgoodʼ in itself. But, as Martin Ryle noted in Radical Philosophy 114, it can also amount to an effective agreement to evade o...

Lukács, Heidegger and Fascism

...t, VI.49S. * With acknowledgement for help and suggestions from Pete Dews, Jonathan Ree, Mike Shortland, Carolyn Sumberg. Lukas, Heidegger and Fascism Mark Tebbitt It has long been acknowledged that there is a necessity to develop a rational Marxist response to 20th-century existentialism. The post-War debates on this subject have almost inevitably tended to focus on the development of Sartre’s philosophy, on his dialogues with official Marxism in...

Communist University, Teaching Philosophy, Socialist Economists, RPG Open Meeting, Oxford, London

...entitled to draw cheques: whoever convenes the editorial group (at present Jonathan Ree) , and whoever handles distribution (at present Noel Parker). Richard Norman,~as also named as a drawer to facilitate the transfer. (2) Jonathan Ree reported to the meeting on the situation regarding the magazine. Tony Ski11en has agreed to take over as reviews editor starting with issue No.7. The magazine is at present edited by a loosely defined board, of whi...

Metaphor and Metaphysics: The end of Philosophy and Derrida

...nd the classIcs of French philosophy, as is well known, ~”e German: the ‘three Hs’ (Hegel Husserl He.idegger), to~et~er w.ith their version of the ‘history of philosophy, begInnIng With Heraclitus. The Derridean procedure was unveiled to French readers in 1967, when he published three books – Grammato..!2u, Writing and Difference, and Speech and Phenomena all translated into English long ago. They are wayward works: a magpie’s collection of quotat...