Radical Philosophy

Oct 15, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Rafeef Ziadah

Aijaz Ahmad’s work traversed several disciplines: literary criticism, history, Marxist theory and philosophy, politics and political economy. His book In Theory navigated the intersections of class, nationalism and literature, offering a critique of postcolonial theory at the height of its popularity.

Oct 15, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Chiara Bottici

I met Drucilla Cornell at the New School for Social Research, shortly after my arrival in the US at a time of political turmoil. I joined the Philosophy Department in 2010, and one of the first things I was invited to do was help organise an international conference called ‘The Anarchist Turn’. The conference took place in May 2011 and it gathered an uncharacteristically large audience by academic standards, leaving many of us quite surprised.

Oct 15, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Chris Wilbert

Mark Bould, The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (London and New York: Verso, 2021). 176pp., £12.99 pb., 978 1 83976 047 1The Salvage Collective, The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene (London and New York: Verso, 2021). 104pp., £8.99 pb., 978 1 83976 294 9 Catastrophe is inevitably attracting much discussion in relation to film, books, and other entertainment these days, though it is far from a new theme in philosophy.

Oct 15, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Ntina Tzouvala

Oishik Sircar, Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021). 370pp., £40.99 hb., 978 0 19012 792 3This is a book that resists easy categorisation and, as a result, also resists the typical review process. 1 I could, for example, note that the book consists of seven essays written as standalone pieces, which address a wide range of topics.

Apr 12, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Aziz Rana

At the heart of the post-World War II international order was a legitimating narrative premised on the idea that the world system was no longer imperial; it had now become a community of equal states. This meant that international law established a framework for shared peace and prosperity grounded in multilateral institutions that imposed constraints on all and that, over time, could eliminate the remaining distinctions between historic colonisers and colonised.