R A D I C A L P H I L O S O P H Y a journal of socialist and feminist 89 CONTENTS MAY/JUNE 1998

Editorial collective COMMENTARY Chris Arthur, Ted Benton, Nadine Cartner, Andrew Collier, Diana Coole, Peter Dews, Families against ‘The Family’: The Transatlantic Passage Roy Edgley, Gregory Elliott, Howard of the of Family Values Feather, Jean Grimshaw, Kathleen Lennon, Joseph McCarney, Kevin Magill, Peter Judith Stacey ...... 2 Osborne, Stella Sandford, Sean Sayers Issue editor Chris Arthur ARTICLES Reviews editor Sean Sayers Out of Africa: Philosophy, ‘Race’ and Agency Contributors Bob Carter ...... 8 Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Adorno on Late Capitalism: Totalitarianism and the Professor of Sociology at the University Welfare State of Southern California. Her publications include In the Name of The Family: Deborah Cook ...... 16 Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age (Beacon Press, 1996). Philosophy in Germany Bob Carter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Simon Critchley and Axel Honneth ...... 27 Worcester. He has published extensively on the politics of race, immigration and nationality. REVIEWS Deborah Cook teaches Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Canada. Jane Gallop, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment Simon Critchley is Reader in Philosophy Peter Benson ...... 40 at the . His recent publications include Very Little... Almost Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Nothing: Death, Philosophy and (Routledge, 1997). Democratic Society Finn Bowring ...... 43 Axel Honneth is Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at the University Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory of Frankfurt. Stewart Martin ...... 46

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