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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...

Return of the Translator

...n Coleridge’s attempt, as he puts it, ‘to graft German idealism onto that tree of English tradition’. He considers Green’s attempt to ‘plant absolute idealism in British soil’ to have been ‘quixotic’, even if the outcome was a ‘successful transplantation’. (,This brief and gorgeous flowering of absolute idealism in a distant and hostile climate was certainly a curious thing. The roots and original stock were undoubtedly German, yet the resulting p...

The Metaphysics of LSD: With a Reply to Gretton

...ence are as fully worthy of examination as are the more pathological ones. Jonathan Ree (at Hendon Polytechnic) and Parker (at 82 Felsham Road, London SWlS IDQ) are trying to organise a co-operative research project on the History of Philosophy, in the belief that it could have an important contribution to make to Radical Philosophy as a whole. We believe that the history of philosophy, because it is an area of study that contemporary British phil...

65 Editorial

...tion, the main enemy was the metaphysics of the bad old days. According to Ree, however, those who sought to find a distinctive approach in linguistic analysis were usually disappointed (indeed, asking for one would show you up for having missed the point). When pressed to declare the method of linguistic analysis, its apostles were apt to be reticent, or even to deny that there was one. The reason for this, Ree suggests, is to be found in what wa...

Childhood experience and the image of utopia: The broken promise of Adorno’s Proustian sublimations

...in of associations. Adorno may criticize the kind of medically mechanical free association that disables the critical faculty only to replace it with the ready-made formulations of the analyst, [57] but he still hints at the constellational component of Freudʼs early theories of free association and the dream work when discussing the difficulties of reading Proust: ʻProust should be read with the idea of … dwelling on the concrete without grasping...

58 Reviews

...ele’ s fascinating book is that it shows us a fragment of its archaeology. Jonathan Ree MEDICINE AS ETHICS K. W. M. Fulford, Moral Theory and Medical Practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1900. xxi + 311 pp., £12.50 pb, £35.00 hb, 0521 38869 pb, 0521 25915 hb. This is one of those rare books where you feel that the author’s enthusiasm for the subject, and painstaking research into its central concerns, stems from authentic personal comm...

Politics and the Production of Theoretical Journals

...a small working group was formed (Valerie Walkerdine, Mark Nash, Jonathan Ree, Julian Henriques, Wendy Hollway) to prepare a meeting to fill this gap. The day school on ‘Politics and the Production of Theoretical Journals’ was eventually held at Birkbeck College London on Saturday 22 September 1979. The final session broached the problem of ‘audience theory’, and defined various choices that writers make about the roles in which they cast their r...

Reports from Oxford, USA, Sydney, etc.

...this led into a long and heated debate about organization.   OPEN MEETING Jonathan Ree had produced a paper which began by emphasising the need to clarify what kind of organization the movement ought to have. There seemed to be a widespread feeling that active participation in the movement was in danger of being confined to a small group of individuals. Jonathan’s paper went on to argue the case for a formal centralised democratic structure, and...

Prequel to the Heidegger debate: Audry and Sartre

...s a Nazi. His support for Hitlerism can be explained by fear, perhaps by careerism, certainly by conformism: not a pretty sight, I agree. But that suffices to undermine your fine logic: ʻHeidegger,ʼ you say, ʻis a member of the National Socialist Party, so his philosophy must be Nazi.ʼ But that is not the case: Heidegger was lacking in character, thatʼs true; will you dare to deduce from this that his philosophy is a defence of cowardice? Donʼt you...

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...

British Society for the History of Philosophy; Philosophers for Peace; The Question of Postmodernity; Chomsky Smear Campaign; Tomin; Royal Institute Lectures

...capable of writing a text that could be read within the tima allotted. (In Jonathan Ree’s case, a fluent and lucid delivery was interspersed with instant timing judgements which left the impression somewhat of Achllles and the Kangaroo.) It is not clear whose interests are served by this written prose tradition: papers which are accessible and stimulating when read by someone, privately and at their own pace, become incomprehensible and stupefying...

America, Educational “Reform” in France, Oxford, History Workshop, Reports

...ton, Kate Soper, Alison Assiter. Production by Chris Arthur, Colin Gordon, Jonathan Ree, John Mepham, Kate Soper, Mike Dawney Typing: Jo Foster Printed by: Waddington & Ledger, Manor st, Dewsbury BOOKS nECEIVED 1. JOHANSSON, A Critique of Karl Popper’ s lV~ethodology, Copenhagen: Scandinavian Univ. Books, 1975. No price given. H. A. MEYNELL, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, London: Macmillan, 1976. £iG.OO G. NOVACK, An Apprai...

The politics of miscarriage

...squarely located in the dominant imagery and logic manifest in pregnancy greeting cards themselves, rather than the lack of an equivalent miscarriage range. It is precisely the depictions of pregnancy featured in greeting cards – where ‘being pregnant’ means ‘having a baby’ and ‘holding the future’ – that make miscarriage appear as a deviation from pregnancy’s proper path. And however banal or seemingly benign, the imagery and ‘noise’ around preg...

Yugoslavia, US, RPG Reports etc.

...nning the magazine. I do not think we could have a more democratic system. Jonathan Ree Letter to readers Radical Philosophy is not supported by any wealthy well-wishers, by an academic body, or bv a publisher. Financially, we depend directly and entirely on our readers, and all the money we get from sales goes straight into the production and distribution of the magazine. Up to now, we have managed to keep more or less out of debt; but, with risi...

Beyond Barthes: Rethinking the phenomenology of photography

...don, 2004. 5. ^ See Victor Burgin, ‘Something about Photography Theory’, Screen, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 1984, p. 62. This edition of Screen includes other articles making similar points, as in Simon Watney’s ‘Photography – Education – Theory’; see especially his comments on the redundancy of ontology for photographic teaching on p. 69. 6. ^ One should note, in this context, that psychoanalysis has come to prominence as a theoretical fram...

The Trouble with Contradictions

...tion.’ Dialectics of Nature, 1954, pp179-80. REVIEWS THE HISTORIAN’S COACH Jonathan Ree, Michael Ayers and Ada.m Westoby, Philosophy and its Past, Harvester, 1978, £8.50 hardback, £3.50 paperback It is really rather surprising that this book, or something like it, has not appeared before. For as well as being straightforwardly interesting, and readable, it could be i.mportant. The History of Philosophy, which figures in almost all undergraduate Ph...

Reports, Philosophy in Schools, Nouveaux Philosophes, Swansea Again, Dr Edo Pivcevic, Philosophy Abroad, Anti-Gould

...be most welcome. conclusion that can be drawn from this – that he Write to Jonathan Ree, Middlesex Polytechnic, The wanted me to spy on Yugoslav emigres in Britain. ‘ Burroughs, London NW4 4BT. Dr Pivcevic became angry and as he was leaving the station, the other man warned: ‘If you are going NEWS EDITOR: If you need to contact the News to behave like that, we have ways of dealing with Editor of Radical Philosophy for any reason the you.’ Later th...

After life: De anima and unhuman politics

...man as it is of the ethical, the social and the political, then to what degree is it possible to conceive of something like an unhuman politics? Notes 1. ^ http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/roadmap. 2. ^ A long tradition of science fiction poses this question, from Camille Flammarion’s Lumen to Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris. 3. ^ Within the life sciences there is a tradition of ‘What is life?’ books, though these often remain rooted in a biological epist...

Empiricism and Racism

..., £8.95 hc, £4.95 pb J. Sayers, BioZogicaZ PoZitics, Tavistock, £4.95 pb Screen Reader 2, Cinema and Semiotics, SEFT, £4.95 pb H. Sherman and J. Wood, SocioZogy: TraditionaZ and RadicaZ Perspectives, Harper &Row, £5.95 pb S. Sontag (ed.), A Barthes Reader, Jonathan Cape, £15 hc P. Springborg, The ProbZem of Human Needs and the Critique of CiviZisation, AlIen and Unwin, £18 hc K. Tay 1or , The PoZiticaZ Ideas of the Utopian SociaZists, Frank Cass,...

New Racism . . . New Realism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

...of violence in the system. New realism and new racism are in fundamental agreement over the terms in which black people in Britain are to be discussed and their future decided. When two seemingly opposed sides in a power bloc share an agreed terrain in this manner, the result can be called ‘hegemony’. The transition from assimilation to inte33 gration represents an important change in the nature of racial hegemony. New realism and new racism are o...