32 Reviews

John F. Bird, Peter Osborne, Mike Shortland, Vincent Geoghegan, Peter Goodrich, G. Markus and Chris Rojek ~ RP 032 (Autumn 1982) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS Marxism, Black Power, Black Revolutionaries C.L.R. James, Notes on Dialectics, Spheres of Existence and The Black Jacobins, Allison and Busby, £4.95 each The publication of these three books, which the publishers have added to the already available Beyond a Boundary and The Future in the Present, makes available a range of essays, histories and […]

Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996

Ted Benton, Steve Fuller and Helen E. Longino ~ RP 082 (Mar/Apr 1997) ~ Obituary

Symposium Thomas Kuhn, 1922–1996Paradigms as soft structures Kuhnʼs The Structure of Scientiﬁc Revolutions was, despite the modesty of its author, a revolutionary work. Like Darwinʼs Origin of Species (with which it shares many other likenesses), its wider cultural and political resonances far exceeded the intentions and expectations of its author – both in scope and […]

Structure: method or subversion of the social sciences?

Dossier: From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)

Étienne Balibar ~ RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011), pp. 17–22 ~ Article

It seems there’s no longer any real doubt as to the answer to this question, and that it is doubly negative. ‘Structuralism’, or what was designated as such mainly in France in the 1960s and 1970s (setting aside the question of other uses), is no longer regarded as a truly fertile method in the domains […]