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Is class a difference that makes a difference?

...pulsory course on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, options include: Adorno, Derrida, Gadamer, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Marx, Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein. Programme leaders: Peter Osborne & Jonathan Ree Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR or FREEPHONE 0800 181170 Studentships and bursaries are still available for 1996/7. 25...

The contingency of cheese: On Fredric Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism

...and with the transparency of the gauzes the white took flight, to become free radiance with the muslins, the guipures, the laces, and above all the tulles, so light that they were like the farthest, dying note, while the silver of the pieces of oriental silk sank higher than all in the recesses of the vast bay. [42] Here, too, then we have the apparent autonomy of ‘sense data’, the proliferation of the (unnameably?) different whites that take fli...

Critical social science and psychological explanation

...e year ful -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 Alexander García Düttmann Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR Tel: 0181 362 5703tmadmissions@mdx.ac.uk MA...

Brain waves, transcendental fields and techniques of thought

...nent. An immanent field is efficacious and inscrutable (to some uncertain degree), but not immaterial. It is infrasensible rather than supersensible. Moreover, some elements in the field that exceed our (current and perhaps future) capacities of explanation are nonetheless susceptible, to some uncertain degree, to both cultural inscription and experimental tactics of self-intervention. That is, as Epicureans and several monotheistic religions have of...

The rationality of life: On the organismic metaphor of the state

...to transform and improve human nature implies that humanity possesses a degree of freedom from nature in general because it cannot be understood in terms of efficient or mechanical causality. In the process of Bildung, the ideal form is not separate from the process and resulting product in the same way that a model is separate from its copy. A model is temporally prior to and external to the copy, which is a reproduction or duplication of the orig...

Formations of feminism: Political memoirs of the Left (II)

...ated a new and transformed possibility – the movement from passivity into freedomʼ, Sheila Rowbotham agrees, in one of the founding texts of British feminism. Judith Okley broadens the picture: ʻI was fortunate in receiving the testimony of some women from the Third Worldʼ, recording favourable responses to The Second Sex in India and the Middle East.24 I could go on. ʻIdealized motherʼ, maybe, as Appignanesi suggests, but – archetypically – a nev...

Sexist Language: Fatherfuck or Genderspeak?

...debating exactly what we mean by our statement, but presumably we would agree that we both live in a ‘sexist’ society. This is something we oppose, and are committed to changing, so things which bolster sexism in society we fight against and things which seem to subvert it we support Indeed, all sides of the debate in RPl6 and RPl8 would also call themselves ‘anti-sexist’. The problem is that linguistic considerations often clash with antisexist...

In Search of a Method: Hegel, Marx and Realism

...empty abstraction: the higher the level of abstraction, the higher the degree of generality. From this standpoint, abstr,action is equivalent to the process of generalization. In contrast, the process of abstraction for Marx, involved a grasp of the particular significance of particular objects. Both Locke’s and Marx’s notion of abstraction exhibit the characteristics of generality and onesided ness, but what differentiates them is the degree of...

Theory’ and ‘Practice’ in the sociology of Paulo Freire

...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: ~’...

Philosophy on television

...nas, schopenhauer and Wittgenstein . MA Aesthetics and Art Theory includes: the aesthetic tradition, modernist aesthetics, romantic aesthetics, phenomenological aesthetics, and conceptualism Andthe end of art Core staf : Alexander García Düttmann, Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée and Stel a Sandford apply now for october 2000 Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR Tel: 020 8362 5703 Email: tmadmissions@mdx...

History and the process of mourning in Hegel and Freud

...med by Nietzsche’s claims in the Second Untimely Meditation: There is a degree of sleeplessness, of rumination, of the historical sense, which is harmful and ultimately fatal to the living thing, whether this living thing be a man or a people or a culture. To determine the degree, and therewith the boundary at which the past has to be forgotten if it is not to become the gravedigger of the present, one would have to know exactly how great the plas...

Friend or enemy? Reading Schmitt politically

...t argued that the president should govern through a series of emergency decrees, a procedure allowed by the Weimar constitution. Article 48 of the constitution was an emergency provision, allowing the president to rule 15 by emergency decree, with the use of the armed forces, and to abrogate the rights laid down in other articles (such as the right to privacy, secrecy, opinion, assembly, association and property), if a state were unable to fulfil...

Oedipus as figure

...superpower of destiny, was punished implied that the recognition of human freedom was a tribute to freedom. Allowing its hero to struggle against the superpower of destiny was Greek tragedyʼs way of paying tribute to human freedom; in order not to cross the barriers of art, it had to ensure that he was defeated but, in order to compensate, through art, for the humiliation of human freedom, he also had to undergo punishment … for the crime committe...

88 Reviews

...ognize that their historical turn would have nothing to turn to otherwise. Jonathan rée The politics of cultureJodi Dean, ed., Feminism and the New Democracy: Resisting the Political, Sage, London and Thousand Oaks CA, 1997. ix + 274 pp., £40.00 hb., £14.95 pb., 0 8039 7617 8 hb., 08039 7618 6 pb.politics and a fairly facile dismissal of socialism. However, what might appear as a limitation turns into one of the bookʼs strengths, for it enables a...

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...

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...

An Editor Speaks

...er to indicate that this Editorial’s views are not universally shared. But Jonathan Ree’s text does not consist only of memories and reflections: it is also a fairly forceful attempt to redirect the magazine’s policy along certain lines which it sees as desirable. So some discussion seems in order about what these recommendations mean and what arguments are put forward in their favour. For me this is none too easy, since for much of the ti me I fi...

Old and New Left

...on is probably true, and would include me. I was certainly as disturbed as Jonathan Ree to read Edward Thompson’s Open Letter to Kolakowski, and I was glad to read his opening discussion upon it(RP9) .. The Letter was ·very pessimistic, and so is Jonathan Ree’s commentary. In those far off days of the fifties, he says, the socialist intellectuals gave their allegiance to the British Labour movement, though they might criticize it, but he suggests...

Dissident Intellectuals: East and West, RPG Reports, etc.

...t he should get an Sheffield, critical seminars track- estimate from them. Jonathan Ree explained that the ing and attacking the mainstream editorial arrangements had been course on a week by week basis are slightly re-organised, so as to going on. This, unlike the abstract Warwick topic, encourages relieve pressure on the coordinator and give more responsibility to students to deal very concretely editors. This left the coordinator with the alien...

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...