The ''Radical Philosophy Review'' is a
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sponsored by the
Radical Philosophy Association. It was established in 1998 and all issues are available online. The journal is published by the
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Content
The ''Radical Philosophy Review'' contains articles focusing on the discussion of fundamental social change. It promotes the idea that society should be built on cooperation rather than competition, and that social decision-making should be governed by democratic procedures.
On occasion, the journal publishes special issues or special sections focusing on a particular social or political issue. Past topics include
NATO
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's war in
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, the
Second Intifada
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, radical theories and religion, and
biopolitics
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and
racism
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Notable contributors
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Samir Amin
Samir Amin () (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economics, Marxian economist, political scientist and World-systems theory, world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 19 ...
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Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages.
Biograph ...
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Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar.
Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University. Beginning in the 1990s, Ashrawi was a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as t ...
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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a ...
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Ward Churchill
Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American activist, author, and former academic. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007.
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of ...
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Enrique Dussel
Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini (24 December 1934 – 5 November 2023) was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to ...
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Norman Finkelstein
Norman Gary Finkelstein ( ; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Finkelstein was born in New York Cit ...
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Henry Giroux
Henry Armand Giroux (born September 19, 1943) is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural ...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia police officer C ...
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Edward Said
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Abstracting and indexing
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See also
External links
* {{Official website, 1=http://www.pdcnet.org/radphilrev
Radical Philosophy Association
English-language journals
Political philosophy journals
Academic journals established in 1998
Political science journals
Biannual journals
Philosophy Documentation Center academic journals