67 Reviews

Bob Brecher, David Macey, Alan Duiant, Anthony Arblaster, Peter Osborne, Willy Maley, Adrian Wilding, Jim McGuigan, Julian Wolfreys, David Glover, Katerina Deligiorgi, David Archard, David McLellan, Kevin Magill, Tim Jordan, Justine Shenton and Howard FeatherRP 067 (Summer 1994)

Ted Benton, Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice Bob Brecher Louis Althusser, The Future Lasts a Long Time and The Facts E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker, eds., The Althusserian Legacy David Macey Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures Alan Duiant Gregory Elliott, Labourism and the English […]

64 Reviews

Peter Osborne, David Archard, William Large, Katerina Deligiorgi, Tim Jordan, Kevin Magill, Clair Wills, Alastair Williams, Martin Ryle, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Chris Arthur, Kathleen Nutt, Gerard McCann, Barry Camp and Jean-Jacques LecercleRP 064 (Summer 1993)

REVIEWS AVANT-TARD Jean-Fran~ois Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby, Oxford, Polity Press, 1991. viii + 216pp., £35 hb, 0 7456 0772 1 NorbertElias, Time: An Essay, translated in part from the German by Edmund Jephcott, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1992. 216pp., £35 hb,O 631 157980 Is it ever too […]

52 Reviews

Anne Phillips, Robert Stern, Andrew Dobson, Howard Feather, Peter Osborne and John R. GibbinsRP 052 (Summer 1989)

REVIEWS THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT? Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Oxford, Polity Press, 1988, 264pp., £27.50 hb, £8.95 pb. In the good old days when education was not yet subordinated to the market, and the study of politics was presumed to include acquaintance with classical texts as well as a working knowledge of computers, I used […]

48 Reviews

Alison Assiter, Don Slater, Margaret Atack, Graham McCann, Howard Feather, Alex Callinicos, Kathleen Lennon, John Tomlinson, Martin Barker, J. R. R. Christle, Andrew Dobson and Sean SayersRP 048 (Spring 1988)

REVIEWS FEMINIST FUTURES Lynne Segal, Is the Future Female?, London, VIrago, 1986. Lynne Segal, in Is the Future Female?, criticises much contemporary feminism as uniformly celebrating difference between the sexes, and thereby downplaying the changes that have taken place, historically, in women’s lifes, and the social, psychological and economic variations amongst women. Offering analyses of […]

43 Reviews

Howard Feather, Stuart Sim, David Lamb, Gregor McLennan, Jeffrey Weeks, Jim Moore, Richard Osborne, Lloyd Spencer, Mike Hickox, David Macey, Gregory Claeys, Graham McCann, Noel Davison and Roger SmithRP 043 (Summer 1986)

REVIEWS Reconstructing Structural Marxism Ted Benton, The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism; Althusser and his Influence, Macmillan, London, 1984, 259pp lI8.00 hc, 1.6.95 pb Benton’s book has many facets: it is an introductory text, a re-evaluation and reconstruction of Structural Marxism, an argument for theoretical progress lying through the synthesis of Structural Marxism with […]

41 Reviews

John Mepham, David Archard, David Macey, Sean Sayers, Paul A. Fox-Strangways, Paul Bagguley, Gregory Claeys, Jan Golinski, Keith Ansell-Pearson, John Kraniauskas, Martin Barker, John Fauvel, Tony Skillen, Roger Smith, Cynthia Hay and Vincent GeogheganRP 041 (Autumn 1985)

REVIEWS Young Hegels H.S. Harris, Hegel’s Development, Volume 11: Night Thoughts (Jena 1.801-6), Oxford University Press, 1983, £35 hb, lxx + 627pp Robert C. Solomon, In the Spirit of Hegel, Oxford University Press, New York, 1983, £25 hb, xxiv + 646pp M.J. Inwood, Hegel, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, £24 hb, xv + 582pp In […]

38 Reviews

Peter Dews, Keith Ansell-Pearson, John Fauvel, Gregory Claeys, Sean Sayers, Tony Skillen, Paul Crowther and Howard FeatherRP 038 (Summer 1984)

REVIEWS Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes (eds.), Rationality and Relativism, Basil Blackwell, 1982 .Bryan Wilson’s anthology of essays on ‘Rationality’, first published in 1970, has become something of a minor classic in recent analytical philosophy, bringing together the main contributions to a lively and accessible debate, and providing the starting-point for a host of subsequent […]

36 Reviews

Martin Ryle, Howard Feather, Allan Cochrane, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Gregor McLennan, Jean Grimshaw, Martin Barker, Pete Morriss, Gregory Claeys and Sean SayersRP 036 (Spring 1984)

REVIEWS Post-Industrial Socialism Rudolf Bahro, Socialism and Survival (trans. David Fernbach), Heretic Books, f.3.50 pb Andre Gorz, Farewell to the Working Class (trans. Michael Sonenscher), Pluto Press, 1:.3.95 pb The ‘debate on the concept of the proletariat’ is, suggests Rudolf Bahro, ‘outdated’; it ‘tends right from the start to be scholastic’. Farewell to the Working […]

33 Reviews

Martin Barker, William H. Shaw, Howard Feather, Peter Vipond, Chris Arthur, Steve Crook, Mike Shortland and Allan CochraneRP 033 (Spring 1983)

REVIEWS Marxism and the Problem of Needs Kate Soper, On Human Needs, Harvester, 1981, £18.95 h.c. It is a commonplace of socialist politics that socialism must be a society ‘based on need, not on profit’. And in that famous aphorism, Marx’s communism was to be one which inscribed on its banner, ‘From each according to […]

31 Reviews

Geoffrey Hunt, Janna Thompson, John Fauvel, Martin Barker, Nöel Parker, Peter Goodrich, Roger Waterhouse, Peter Osborne and Howard FeatherRP 031 (Summer 1982)

REVIEWS Philosophies of African Liberation Journal of African Marxists, Issue No.l, November 1981, Zed Press, London, twice yearly, Sub: £2. This ·new and attractive journal aims to provide a forum for progressive African intellectuals, and all those committed to African liberation, to discuss the struggle against neocolonialism and racism. The allAfrican editorial board, supported by […]

112 Reviews

Alastair Morgan, John Sellars, Lynne Segal, Andrew McGettigan, Peter Hallward, Martin Ryle, Bruce Krajewski, Serge McGuinness and Jules TownshendRP 112 (Mar/Apr 2002)

The ethical dimension of Adornoʼs work is elusive and gestural, but it is an ineliminable part of his philosophy. Jay Bernstein attempts to do justice to what he terms the ʻethical intensityʼ of Adornoʼs writing by reconstructing the ethical content and premisses of his philosophical output. However, this book is not only a mining 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 […]

141 Reviews

Ken Hirschkop, Joseph McCarney, Kerstin Stakemeier, Michelle Speidel, David Macey and Howard FeatherRP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007)

Reviews Bluffer’s guideTimothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right, Columbia University Press, New York, 2005. 360 pp., £19.00 hb., 0 231 13730 3. Itʼs the evening of 8 August 1974, and Iʼm watching Richard Nixon resign from the US presidency with the lack of grace that distinguished his entire political […]

145 Reviews

Knox Peden, David Cunningham, Ken Hirschkop, Christian Kerslake and Howard FeatherRP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007)

Reviews Analogical nostalgiasAntonio Negri, The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, trans. Matteo Mandarini and Alberto Toscano, Verso, London and New York, 2007. 344 pp., £6.99 pb., 1 84667 582 3. Antonio Negri’s Political Descartes presents two thinkers at pains to make nostalgia productive. First there is Descartes, who, following an explosion of […]

167 Reviews

Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark NeocleousRP 167 (May/Jun 2011)

It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it is hard to join the editor and publisher of this translation in respecting the decision of the editors of the French collections to begin their coverage in the 1950s: the first edition published in […]

164 Reviews

Jo Littler, Owen Hatherley, Douglas Spencer, Philipp Kleinmichel and Howard FeatherRP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010)

Reviews FlexploitationBrett de Bary, ed., Universities in Translation: The Mental Labor of Globalisation, Traces, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2010. 408 pp., £56.50 hb., £28.50 pb., 978 962 209 991 3 hb., 978 962 209 992 0 pb. Andrew Ross, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, New […]