Contributor Archive: Howard Caygill
Bildung and strategy
The fate of the ‘beautiful sciences’
by Howard Caygill / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1
Kant’s 1798 Conflict of the Faculties makes an explicit case for viewing philosophy as the romantic transdiscipline. The ‘lower faculty’ he explained there is less tied to the professional restrictions on research and teaching characteristic of the ‘higher faculties’ of law, medicine and theology dedicated to training lawyer-officials, doctors and priests. Philosophy served not only …
189 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Todd Cronan, Sam Dolbear, Paul Earlie, Philip Derbyshire, Nardina Kaur, Paul Christopher Gray and Howard Feather / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / Reviews
Pier Paolo Pasolini, St Paul: A Screenplay
Howard Caygill
Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge, Brecht, Music and Culture
Todd Cronan
Walter Benjamin, Radio Benjamin
Sam Dolbear
Barbara Cassin, Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism
Paul Earlie
Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power
Philip Derbyshire
Leela Gandhi, The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
Nardina Kaur
Peter …
Philosophy and the Black Panthers
by Howard Caygill / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / Article
The vanguard party only teaches the correct methods of resistance.
Huey P. Newton, 1967
‘Hey Joe! How many of you motherfuckers are coming out here?’ ‘Here’ was Santa Rita Jail, California, early morning, Thursday 3 December 1964. ‘Joe’ was Joe Blum, a student radical, and the accompanying ‘motherfuckers’ were the 814 …
Also Sprach Zapata
Philosophy and resistance
by Howard Caygill / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Article
Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw hisadversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance. (Clausewitz, On War, 1832)
Receive our truth in your dancing heart. Zapatalives, also and for always in these lands. (Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee ZNLA, ‘Votan-Zapata or Five Hundred Years …
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Reviews
‘Never a fascist’?
Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp.
Howard Caygill
It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it …
165 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Andrew McGettigan, Jon Goodbun, Benjamin James Lozano, Kate Soper, Nina Power and Nathan Coombs / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Reviews
Rob Chapman, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head Julian Palacios, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe Michele Mari, Rosso Floyd Howard Caygill
Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life Andrew McGettigan
Bruce C. Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches …
Levinas’s prison notebooks
by Howard Caygill / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / Article
The philosophical importance of Levinas’ notebooks from his time as a prisoner of war.
From Abstraction to Wunsch
The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies
by Howard Caygill / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
DICTIONARY Say of it: ʻItʼs only for ignoramuses!ʼ … ʻIʼd rather die than use one!ʼGustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas
The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies* deserves a warm welcome from everyone interested in philosophy and its history. While connoisseurs of philosophical lexicography will take particular delight in many of the workʼs artful technical features and its often audacious …
126 Reviews
by Monica Mookherjee, David Cunningham, Andrew Aitken, Philip Derbyshire, Andrew McGettigan, Phillip Cole, Howard Caygill and Charles J. Stivale / RP 126 (Jul/Aug 2004) / Reviews
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Ted Honderich, Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy Monica Mookherjee
Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, eds, Learning Places:The Afterlives of Area Studies Françoise Vergès
Alain Badiou, On Beckett David Cunningham
Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Andrew Aitken
…
No Man’s Land
Reading Kant historically
by Howard Caygill / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
In 1784 Kant published an essay for a journal that represented the public face of an Enlightenment secret society of senior officials in the administration of Frederick II. In the forty-fourth year of Frederickʼs reign it was necessary to plan for the succession and to ensure as far as possible the irreversibility of the achievements …
Levinas and the Right
With Reply to Stone
by Howard Caygill and Nick Stone / RP 106 (Mar/Apr 2001) / Extras
Levinas’s political judgement
The Esprit articles 1934–1983
by Howard Caygill / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Article
62 Reviews
by Catherine Wilson, Martin Ryle, Anthony Elliott, Howard Caygill, Sadie Plant, Colin M. Harper, William Large, Jonathan Powers, Nick Stevenson, Michael Gardiner, Nöel Parker, David Macey, Chris Arthur and David Archard / RP 062 (Autumn 1992) / Reviews
Michele Le Doeuff, Hipparchia’s Choice Catherine Wilson
Jonathan Bate, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition Martin Ryle
Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory Thomas McCarthy, Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory Jane Braaten, Habermas’ s Critical Theory of Society Anthony Elliott
Hubert …
Bildung and strategy
The fate of the ‘beautiful sciences’by Howard Caygill / RP 196 (Mar/Apr 2016) / Dossier, Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1
Kant’s 1798 Conflict of the Faculties makes an explicit case for viewing philosophy as the romantic transdiscipline. The ‘lower faculty’ he explained there is less tied to the professional restrictions on research and teaching characteristic of the ‘higher faculties’ of law, medicine and theology dedicated to training lawyer-officials, doctors and priests. Philosophy served not only …
189 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Todd Cronan, Sam Dolbear, Paul Earlie, Philip Derbyshire, Nardina Kaur, Paul Christopher Gray and Howard Feather / RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015) / ReviewsPier Paolo Pasolini, St Paul: A Screenplay
Howard Caygill
Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge, Brecht, Music and Culture
Todd Cronan
Walter Benjamin, Radio Benjamin
Sam Dolbear
Barbara Cassin, Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism
Paul Earlie
Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power
Philip Derbyshire
Leela Gandhi, The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
Nardina Kaur
Peter …
Philosophy and the Black Panthers
by Howard Caygill / RP 179 (May/Jun 2013) / ArticleThe vanguard party only teaches the correct methods of resistance.
Huey P. Newton, 1967
‘Hey Joe! How many of you motherfuckers are coming out here?’ ‘Here’ was Santa Rita Jail, California, early morning, Thursday 3 December 1964. ‘Joe’ was Joe Blum, a student radical, and the accompanying ‘motherfuckers’ were the 814 …
Also Sprach Zapata
Philosophy and resistanceby Howard Caygill / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Article
Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw hisadversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance. (Clausewitz, On War, 1832)
Receive our truth in your dancing heart. Zapatalives, also and for always in these lands. (Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee ZNLA, ‘Votan-Zapata or Five Hundred Years …
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Reviews‘Never a fascist’?
Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp.
Howard Caygill
It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it …
165 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Andrew McGettigan, Jon Goodbun, Benjamin James Lozano, Kate Soper, Nina Power and Nathan Coombs / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / ReviewsRob Chapman, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head Julian Palacios, Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd: Dark Globe Michele Mari, Rosso Floyd Howard Caygill
Martin Heidegger, The Phenomenology of Religious Life Andrew McGettigan
Bruce C. Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches …
Levinas’s prison notebooks
by Howard Caygill / RP 160 (Mar/Apr 2010) / ArticleThe philosophical importance of Levinas’ notebooks from his time as a prisoner of war.
From Abstraction to Wunsch
The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies
by Howard Caygill / RP 138 (Jul/Aug 2006) / Article
DICTIONARY Say of it: ʻItʼs only for ignoramuses!ʼ … ʻIʼd rather die than use one!ʼGustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas
The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies* deserves a warm welcome from everyone interested in philosophy and its history. While connoisseurs of philosophical lexicography will take particular delight in many of the workʼs artful technical features and its often audacious …
126 Reviews
by Monica Mookherjee, David Cunningham, Andrew Aitken, Philip Derbyshire, Andrew McGettigan, Phillip Cole, Howard Caygill and Charles J. Stivale / RP 126 (Jul/Aug 2004) / ReviewsCharles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Ted Honderich, Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy Monica Mookherjee
Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, eds, Learning Places:The Afterlives of Area Studies Françoise Vergès
Alain Badiou, On Beckett David Cunningham
Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Andrew Aitken
…
No Man’s Land
Reading Kant historicallyby Howard Caygill / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
In 1784 Kant published an essay for a journal that represented the public face of an Enlightenment secret society of senior officials in the administration of Frederick II. In the forty-fourth year of Frederickʼs reign it was necessary to plan for the succession and to ensure as far as possible the irreversibility of the achievements …
Levinas and the Right
With Reply to Stoneby Howard Caygill and Nick Stone / RP 106 (Mar/Apr 2001) / Extras
Levinas’s political judgement
The Esprit articles 1934–1983by Howard Caygill / RP 104 (Nov/Dec 2000) / Article
62 Reviews
by Catherine Wilson, Martin Ryle, Anthony Elliott, Howard Caygill, Sadie Plant, Colin M. Harper, William Large, Jonathan Powers, Nick Stevenson, Michael Gardiner, Nöel Parker, David Macey, Chris Arthur and David Archard / RP 062 (Autumn 1992) / ReviewsMichele Le Doeuff, Hipparchia’s Choice Catherine Wilson
Jonathan Bate, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition Martin Ryle
Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory Thomas McCarthy, Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory Jane Braaten, Habermas’ s Critical Theory of Society Anthony Elliott
Hubert …