radical philosophy

Ernst Cassirer

Seeds of Freedom

11 Letter Page

Notes: Radical Linguistics

Peter Rabbit and the Grundrisse

10 Letters Page

Old and New Left

Rancière and Althusser

Rancière’s critique of Althusser and Ted Benton’s comments (RP 7 and RP 9 respectively) raise fundamental problems about the nature of theoretical debate in addition to fundamental problems at the level of theory itself. I take Benton to be presenting a defence of a more or less orthodox Althusserian position and the following points …

Discussion: Wittgenstein’s Conservatism

Liberals, fanatics and moral philosophers

Reductionism and the ‘Uniqueness of Man’

Notes: the inheritance of intelligence and ideology

Discussion: Rancière and Ideology

The article by Jacques Rancière, ‘On the Theoryof Ideology’ (Radical Philosophy 7) is one of the most powerful critiques of Althusser’s work so far to have been produced from the left. Given the wide reception that Althusser’s work is nowreceiving in Britain it is vital that the issues which Ranciere raises are thoroughly …

Putting Morality in its Place

Ordinary Language Philosophy and Radical Philosophy

7 Letters Page

Discussion: Leninism versus proletarian self-emancipation; Laing’s social philosophy; The Trivialily of Althusser

The Huntingdon File

On Cohen’s Response to ‘Reason and Violence’

A Note on R. S. Peters