Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?

Jonathan Rée ~ RP 044 (Autumn 1986), pp. 3–7 ~ Article

Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral? Jonathan Ree I write in and about an embarrassment: how should I, a philosophy teacher, respond to people who are also committed to philosophy, but cut off from official philosophical institutions? It was partly to focus my attention on this problem that I revisited a much-respected acquaintance a few […]

Preface to Rancière’s ‘Proletarian Nights’

Jonathan Rée ~ RP 031 (Summer 1982), pp. 10–11 ~ Article

Preface to ‘Proletarian Nights’ The article printed below is a translation of the Introduction (pp.7-l2) of Jacques Ranci~re’s La Nuit des Proletaires, which was published last year [1]. The book deals with some well known events of the l830s and l840s – the utopias of Fourier, Saint-Simon, Cabet and Enfantin; the ‘Free Women’; the socialist […]