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Review of Visions and Blueprints - Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early 20th-Century Europe - Timms,E, Collier,P (review)History of European Ideas 10 (5): 624-625. 1989.
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9Visions and blueprints. Avant-garde culture and radical politics in early twentieth-century Europe : ed. Edward Timms and Peter Collier , xii + 328pp., $39.95 (review)History of European Ideas 10 (5): 624-625. 1989.
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122Review: Axel Honneth: Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea (review)Mind 118 (470): 476-479. 2009.
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36Contradiction and DialecticScience and Society 55 (1). 1991.Confusingly, Marquit insists on describing his own position as `materialist dialectics'. I shall come to the question of materialism in due course; but dialectic it is not not, at least, in the usual sense of the term, which describes the philosophy of Hegel and classical Marxists like Engels and Lenin. This is quite explicitly a philosophy of contradiction, as Marquit himself demonstrates at some length (148-56). Its central tenet is that change is an essential feature of all concrete things; a…Read more
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Review of Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 (review)Political Studies Review 5 (2): 248. 2007.
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50Knowledge as a Social PhenomenonRadical Philosophy 52 (52): 34-7. 1989.The idea that knowledge is a social phenomenon is no longer either novel or unfamiliar. With the growth of the social sciences, we are accustomed to seeing ideas and beliefs in social and historical terms, and trying to understand how they arise and why they take the forms that they do. Philosophers, however, are only gradually coming to terms with these views. For they call in question ideas about the nature of knowledge which have dominated epistemology since the seventeenth century.
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13British universities have just gone through their third Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The `research output' (i.e. publications) of every participating department has been graded by panels of `experts' on a seven point scale. The purpose of this massive operation is to provide a basis for distributing funds for research. In theory, the idea of allocating these scarce resources according to the standard of the work produced seems fair and reasonable; but in philosophy, at least, that is not …Read more
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55Progress and Social CriticismThe European Legacy 2 (3): 544-549. 1997.In the `Preface' to the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel outlines the dialectical method and contrasts it with two other approaches. On the one hand, there is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content an…Read more
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1Review of John E. Roemer, A Future for Socialism (review)Philosophical Books 36 (3): 209-211. 1995.
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43Hiding behind the anodyne title of this book is a work of large scope and considerable interest for the Hegelian reader. Its main purpose is to vindicate a dialectical interpretation of Marxism in the context of recent analytical Marxism. The book falls into two parts. The first contains a detailed account of the dialectical philosophy implicit in Marx's work, and of its background in the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. The second shows how this account of Marx's approach can be used to resolve …Read more
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28Review of G.A. Cohen, If you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich? (review)Radical Philosophy 104 (104): 39-41. 2000.
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9Who are my peers?: The Research Assessment Exercise in philosophyRadical Philosophy 83 (83): 2-5. 1997.
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50In common with other forms of nonreductive materialism, emergent materialism of this sort is accused of trying to have its cake and eat it. Ontological physicalism, it is said, necessarily implies reductionism which rules out the idea that there are irreducible emergent mental properties and laws. For according to such physicalism, everything is composed of physical constituents whose behaviour is governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. It follows that, in theory at least, every particula…Read more
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12Reviews: The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (review)Radical Philosophy 122 52-53. 2003.
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54Marx and alienation: essays on Hegelian themesPalgrave-Macmillan. 2011.The concept of alienation: Hegelian themes in modern social thought -- Creative activity and alienation in Hegel and Marx -- The concept of labour -- The individual and society -- Freedom and the "realm of necessity" -- Alienation as a critical concept -- Private property and communism -- The division of labour and its overcoming -- Marx's concept of communism.
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44Dialectic and Social CriticismSpartacus 9 (89): 86-90. 2007.other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of vanity towards it'. The dialectical method, Hegel maintains, must `give up this freedom'. It refuses `to…Read more
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10Review of Robert Meister, Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx (review)Philosophical Books 33 (2): 74-76. 1992.
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47Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical MaterialismHistorical Materialism 5 (1): 359-366. 1999.
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Review of KM Brien, Marx, Reason, and the Art of Freedom (review)Science and Society 54 (2): 235-238. 1990.