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Paul A. Fox-Strangways, David Macey, David Archard, Roger Harris, Steve Redhead, John Kraniauskas, Vincent Geoghegan, Chris Lawn, Graham McCann, John Fauvel and Chris Arthur ~ RP 051 (Spring 1989) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS ANTI -ANTI -ALTHUSSERIANISM Gregory Elliott, Althusser: The Detour of Theory, London, Verso, 1988, 359pp., £29.95 hb, £10.95 pb. Few events in the recent history of the intellectual left in Britain can have had as disruptive an effect upon its prevailing orthodoxies and habits of mind as the onset of ‘Ahtusserianism’ in the early 1970s. […]

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Nöel Parker, Janet Vaux, Chris Arthur, John Mepham, Trevor Pateman, Jonathan Rée and J. R. ~ RP 008 (Summer 1974), pp. 42–47 ~ Reviews

Reviews Retrieving democracy? c. B. MacPherson, Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval, Oxford University Press, hardback E2.75, ISBN 1982 71875, paperback El.25, ISBN 1982 71891 MacPherson presents two concepts of power corresponding to the two concepts of man’s essential nature. ‘Extractive power’ is what a man has insofar as he is a consumer; it can be […]

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Roger Harris and David Ingleby ~ RP 006 (Winter 1973) ~ Reviews

Lelle:rs Dear Editors Jerry M Cohen in his discussion of Roy Edgley’s article ‘Reason and Violence’, presents himself as both a victim of, and propagandist for, a brand of doublethink increasingly popular amongst our so-called radicals. on the one hand, he argues that we should have no truck with the meaning of words (a pursuit […]