Countering populism

Reivew of Paul K. Jones, Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism

Mike Makin-Waite ~ RP 2.13 (October 2022), pp. 110–114 ~ Review

Paul K. Jones, Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). 288pp., £85.00 hb., £25.00 pb., 978 1 52612 343 5 hb., 978 1 52616 373 8 pb. Jeremiah Morelock, ed, How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022). 502pp., £25.99 pb., 978 1 64259 767 7 […]

Science, Social Science and Socialist Science: Reason as Dialectic

Roy Edgley ~ RP 015 (Autumn 1976) ~ Article

Science, Social Science, and Socialist Science RBASON AS DIALBCTIC Roy Edgley The Q1lrrent ~risis, soc ial and Intellectual In both fields one can trace in the analytical tradition a more or less gradual relaxation of the constraints thought to be implicit in the idea of science am:. reason. In the philosophy of science Popper sought […]

Out of Africa: Philosophy, ‘race’ and agency

Bob Carter ~ RP 089 (May/Jun 1998) ~ Article

Social scientists have long grappled with ideas about race. In recent years, discussion on the signiﬁcance of these ideas – particularly in exploring notions of identity, and the cultural and political options these appear to make available – have penetrated other areas of the humanities. A spate of recent publications signals that it is philosophyʼs […]