A Comparison of Marxist and Hegelian Dialectical Form

Ian Hunt and Roy Swan ~ RP 030 (Spring 1982) ~ Article

A Comparison of Marxist and Hegelian Dialectical Form fan Hunt and Roy Swan Introduction Our aim in this paper is to exhibit the formal differences that distinguish the Harxist dialectic from its Hegelian predecessor. In sum, whereas in Hegel’s system identity has primacy over contradiction and, what comes to the same thing, self-identity has primacy […]

Joseph McCarney, 1941–2007

Chris Arthur ~ RP 146 (Nov/Dec 2007) ~ Obituary

Joseph McCarney, 1941–2007 Joe McCarney, who has died in a tragic road accident at the age of sixty-six, was a unique voice in the resurgence of Marxist theory and philosophy that took place in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. He joined the Radical Philosophy group in 1976, and he was prominent thereafter as a […]

Gramsci and the political: From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’

Peter Thomas ~ RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009), pp. 27–36 ~ Article

One of the forms in which the waves of protests against the ‘new world order’ in the 1990s and, particularly, the varied political and social movements of the new millennium have been registered in political philosophy has been in a renewed interest in the nature of ‘the political’ and its relationship with ‘politics’. Even and […]