The Statist Conception of Politics

Tony Skillen ~ RP 002 (Summer 1972) ~ Article

THE STADSI [On[EPTIOn OF POLITI[S Tanv Skillen philosophically sanctified. Moral and Political Philosophy are taught as separate fields: evidently the problems of the politician (the Statesman) are not the problems of the ordinary chap, save at such times when the ordinary chap goes to the po:ls or lobbies his M.P. (the Citizen) or marches to […]

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 […]

Theatre and the public: Badiou, Rancière, Virno

Simon Bayly ~ RP 157 (Sep/Oct 2009) ~ Article

Theatre and the public Badiou, Rancière, Virno Simon bayly and ‘relational’ turn in contemporary art practice. The claim restaged here is that the theatrical is still what makes a political problem of something like ‘the public’, which in many contemporary philosophical understandings no longer appears at all. Making public The lack of the appearance of […]