Radical Philosophy Alessandra Tanesini Archive

181 Reviews

Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education

Frederick Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human I, Frederich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments

Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck, eds, Unditiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice

Douglas Murphy, The Architecture of Failure

Sally Anne Haslanger, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique

Oxana Timofeeva, History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom

James McFarland, Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-time of History

Martin McQuillan, Eugene Thacker, Victoria Browne, Ross Wolfe, Alessandra Tanesini, Benjamin Noys and Phillip HomburgRP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013)

Reviews Conditions of the universityAndrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Education, Pluto Press, London, 2013. 232 pp., £54.00 hb., £15.00 pb., 978 0 74533 294 9 hb., 978 0 74533 293 2 pb. In an interview with Giovanna Borradori given after 9/11, Jacques Derrida said: ‘I am incapable of […]

91 Reviews

Andrew Chitty, Alessandra Tanesini, David Archard, Adam Beck, Ian Craib, Martin Ryle, David Stevens, Alison Stone and Robert Alan BrookeyRP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998)

Marxism has differed from most other bodies of radical political thought in its conviction that its political radicalism is inseparably connected to a philosophical radicalism – a conviction that underlies the name of this journal. Engels, Kautsky and the orthodox Soviet Marxists all saw Marxism as distinguished from mainstream (ʻbourgeoisʼ) social thought by the dialectical […]

95 Reviews

Alessandra Tanesini, Barry Wilkins, Carl Talbot, Stella Sandford, John Clarke, Meena Dhanda and Christina LuptonRP 095 (May/Jun 1999)

Reviews Drawing the colour lineK. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1996. 191 pp., £23.00 hb., £11.95 pb., 0 691 02661 0 hb., 0 691 05909 8 pb. Suppose that you subscribe to the view that only a racist society could generate a belief […]

97 Reviews

Ben Watson, Andrew Bowie, Anthony Arblaster, Robin May Schott, Judith Still, Alison Ainley, Elliot Jurist, David Macey, Francesca Cauchi and Tony SkillenRP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999)

Reviews The tamagochi and the objet petit aSlavoj Žižek, The Žižek Reader, edited by Elizabeth and Edmond Wright, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999. xii + 332 pp., £55.00 hb., £15.99 pb., ISBN 0 631 21200 0 hb., 0 631 21201 9 pb. This is all delivered with such good humour that the critic stands disarmed. Anyone wishing […]

109 Reviews

David Macey, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Andrew Fisher, Robin Durie, Ben Watson, Nathan Widder, Roger Harris, David Murray and Mark NeocleousRP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001)

Reviews The tale of TedTed Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life, Routledge, London, 2001. x + 441 pp., £20.00 hb., 0 415 23697 5. There has been a surprisingly close relationship between philosophy and autobiography ever since Augustine. Indeed, it could plausibly be argued that modern European philosophy begins with Descartesʼ ﬁrst-hand account of how […]

114 Reviews

Peter Osborne, David Cunningham, Jon Goodbun, Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini and David MaceyRP 114 (Jul/Aug 2002)

Reviews In 1971, Bryan Magee published a book of conversations with British philosophers under the title Modern British Philosophy. Originating in a series of radio broadcasts and appearing under the imprint of Secker & Warburg, it was intended as a ʻlively introductionʼ to the philosophy of the day. The list of contributors included most of […]

121 Reviews

Philip Derbyshire, Alessandra Tanesini, Alberto Toscano, Stewart Martin, Timothy Hall and Andrew AitkenRP 121 (Sep/Oct 2003)

Reviews Dead in AmericaJacques Derrida, Without Alibi, edited, translated and with an introduction by Peggy Kamuf, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002. 304 pp., £37.95 hb., £17.95 pb., 0 8047 4400 6 hb., 0 8047 4411 4 pb. There is a mordant untimeliness to this new collection of translations of Derridaʼs occasional pieces. The dateline of […]

130 Reviews

John Kraniauskas, Simon Glendinning, David Macey, Monica Mookherjee, James Tobias, Mark Neocleous, Howard Feather and Rene TalbotRP 130 (Mar/Apr 2005)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life John Kraniauskas Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies Janna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice Françoise Vergès Alessandra […]

135 Reviews

Philip Derbyshire, Roger Behrens, Howard Feather, Alessandra Tanesini, Chris Arthur, Mark Neocleous, Eli Park Sorensen and Shannon W. SullivanRP 135 (Jan/Feb 2006)

Reviews MathematiquerieEllie Ragland and Dragan Milovanovic, eds, Lacan: Topologically Speaking, The Other Press, New York, 2004. 350 pp., £19.50 pb., 1 892746 76 X. Late in her biography of Lacan, Elisabeth Roudinesco gives us the quietly moving image of Lacan in his dotage, playing with pieces of string and seemingly drifting further into some private […]

139 Reviews

Alessandra Tanesini, Peter Hallward, Jon Beasley-Murray, Bob Cannon and Philip DerbyshireRP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006)

Reviews Critique of loveWendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005. x + 159 pp., £35.95 hb., £14.95 pb., 0 691 12360 8 hb., 0 691 12361 6 pb. At the beginning of a new millennium this is a book full of melancholy. Written between 1998 and […]

155 Reviews

Jon Beasley-Murray, Nathan Coombs, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Nathan Brown and Tom EyersRP 155 (May/Jun 2009)

Reviews Laboratory Latin AmericaPatrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds, The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn, Pluto Press, London, 2008. 320 pp., £19.99 pb., 978 0 745 32677 1. There is widespread agreement that Latin America is currently the site of the most promising experiments in political organization and creativity to be found […]

166 Reviews

Eeva Berglund, Matthew Charles, Alessandra Tanesini, Sas Mays, Mark Fisher, Anne McNevin and Joyce GogginRP 166 (Mar/Apr 2011)

This thirteen-chapter volume claims to be the first book-length analysis, from a philosophical point of view, of the trend towards the commodification of higher education, combining philosophical analysis with empirical accounts of the current realities facing universities and academics. No longer do philosophers have the luxury of pretending that there might still be time to […]