Sayers Sean, Osborne Peter (ред.). Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy. A Radical Philosophy Reader

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SOCIALISM,

FEMINISM AND

PHILOSOPHY

A RADICAL PHILOSOPHY

READER

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SOCIALISM,

FEMINISM AND

PHILOSOPHY

A RADICAL PHILOSOPHY

READER

Edited by Sean Sayers

and Peter Osborne

with an introduction by

Christopher J.Arthur

London and New York

First published 1990

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Socialism, feminism and philosophy: a Radical Philosophy

reader.

1. English philosophy

I. Sayers, Sean II. Osborne, Peter

192

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Socialism, feminism and philosophy: a radical philosophy reader/

edited by Sean Sayers and Peter Osborne: with an introduction by

Christopher J.Arthur.

p. cm.

Essays previously appeared in the journal Radical Philosophy

between 1984 and 1989.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Feminism. 2. Women and socialism. 3. Philosophy, Marxist.

4. Human ecology. I. Sayers, Sean. II. Osborne, Peter.

HQ1206.S665 1991

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CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors vii

INTRODUCTION

Christopher J.Arthur

Part I Feminism and philosophy

1 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE TENSIONS

IN FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY

Jean Grimshaw

2 HEGEL AS LORD AND MASTER

Christopher J.Arthur

3 MORALITY, MASCULINITY AND THE MARKET

Ross Poole

4 FEMINISM AND THE LOGIC OF MORALITY: A

CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVES

Susan F.Parsons

5 FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF TO THE

POSTMODERNS: DEVELOPMENTS IN A FEMINIST

AESTHETIC

Pauline Johnson

100

Part II Socialism and philosophy

6 PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY: A VERSION OF

PASTORAL?

Jonathan Rée

125

7 MARXISM AND THE DIALECTICAL METHOD: A

CRITIQUE OF G.A.COHEN

Sean Sayers

140

8 ANALYTICAL MARXISM: A NEW PARADIGM?

Joseph McCarney

170

9 SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY: BEYOND STATE

AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Roger Harris

179

Part III Nature and human nature

10 WOMEN, HUMANITY AND NATURE

Val Plumwood

213

11 HUMANISM=SPECIESISM? MARX ON HUMANS

AND ANIMALS

Ted Benton

237

12 THE HUMAN BODY IN SOCIAL THEORY: REICH,

FOUCAULT AND THE REPRESSIVE HYPOTHESIS

Russell Keat

277

Index 307

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Christopher J.Arthur is Lecturer in Philosophy at Sussex Univer-

sity. He was educated at the Universities of Nottingham and

Oxford. He is the author of Dialectics of Labour: Marx and his

Relation to Hegel (Blackwell, 1986), and editor of Marx and

Engels, The German Ideology (Lawrence & Wishart, 1970) and

of E.Pashukanis, Law and Marxism (Ink Links, 1978). He was a

founder member of the Radical Philosophy Group.

Ted Benton teaches sociology at the University of Essex. His pre-

vious publications have included books on the philosophy of

social science and structural Marxism, as well as numerous arti-

cles on realist philosophy of science, history and philosophy of

the life sciences, and Marxist theory. His current research focuses

on the relationships between socialism and environmental issues.

Jean Grimshaw teaches philosophy and cultural studies in the

Department of Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic. She is the

author of Feminist Philosophers: Women’s Perspectives on Phi-

losophy (Wheatsheaf, 1986), and of various articles and reviews.

She is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy.

Roger Harris has taught philosophy at Middlesex Polytechnic

since 1968. He is active in NATFHE, the Further and Higher Edu-

cation Teachers’ Union—formerly a branch and regional officer,

and currently a delegate to the association’s National Council.

Pauline Johnson is a Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie Univer-

sity. Her research interests include feminist theory, ideology and

art, and contemporary critical theory. She is currently writing a

book on main intellectual trends in modern feminism.

Russell Keat is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of

Lancaster, and Director of its Centre for the Study of Cultural

Values. He is the author of The Politics of Social Theory (Black-

well and Chicago University Press, 1981) and, with John Urry, of

Social Theory as Science (Routledge 1975, 2nd edn 1982); and

has recently co-edited with Nick Abercrombie a collection of

papers on ‘Enterprise Culture’ (Routledge, forthcoming). He has

been a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective

since 1975.

Joseph McCarney teaches philosophy at South Bank Polytechnic,

London. He is the author of The Real World of Ideology (Har-

vester, 1980), Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (Verso,

1990), and of various articles on the philosophies of Marx and

Hegel.

Peter Osborne teaches philosophy and history of ideas at Middle-

sex Polytechnic. He is the editor of Socialism and the Limits of

Liberalism (Verso, 1990). He has published a number of papers

on Adorno’s philosophical and cultural theory and is a contribut-

ing editor, with Andrew Benjamin, of Philosophy and Art: ICA

Documents (Free Associations Press, forthcoming). He has been a

member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective since 1982.

Susan F.Parsons is Principal of a part-time course in the Depart-

ment of Adult Education, leading to a Certificate in Theological

and Pastoral Studies from the University of Nottingham. She has

taught philosophy as part of the humanities degrees of Notting-

ham Polytechnic and in a variety of evening classes. As a result of

this experience, she is committed to adult education, to the seri-

ous discussion of feminism, and to the exercise of philosophy in

an interdisciplinary setting.

Ross Poole was educated at Sydney University, Australian

National University, and Oxford University. He has published

articles in academic and radical journals in Australia and in Eng-

land, and is completing a book entitled Morality and Modernity

to be published by Routledge. He teaches philosophy in the

School of History, Philosophy and Politics at Macquarie Univer-

sity, Sydney.

Val Plumwood is a research associate of Sydney’s Macquarie Uni-

versity where until recently she taught courses in philosophy of

social theory, environmental philosophy and feminist theory. She

has published widely in these areas, and also on environmental

areas such as forestry, and has been a long-time activist on both

environmental and women’s issues. She now makes her home in

the rainforest near Braidwood on the southern tablelands of New

viii SOCIALISM, FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY

South Wales where she is completing a book on ecofeminism. She

is a frequent contributor to public discussions, including radio,

TV, newspapers, conferences, workshops and community talks,

on this and related topics in green theory.

Jonathan Rée teaches philosophy and history of ideas at Middle-

sex Polytechnic, and has been a member of the Radical Philoso-

phy collective since its formation. His books include Proletarian

Philosophers (Oxford University Press, 1984) and Philosophical

Tales (Methuen, 1987). He is now working on a study of the

human voice.

Sean Sayers teaches philosophy at the University of Kent. He was

one of the founding editors of Radical Philosophy. His publica-

tions include Reality and Reason: Dialectic and the Theory of

Knowledge (Blackwell, 1985) and, with Richard Norman, Hegel,

Marx and Dialectic: A Debate (Harvester Press and Humanities

Press, 1980). Together with David McLellan, he has recently

edited a volume of papers on Socialism and Morality (Macmillan,

1990). He is currently writing a book on work and human nature.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix