R a A D I journal C of A L socialist 125 Editorial collective David Cunningham, Howard Feather, Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini Contributors David Macey is a writer and translator. His books include Frantz Fanon: A Life (Granta, 2000). Lawrence Davidson is Professor of Middle East History at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Americaʼs Palestine (University Press of Florida, 2001) and Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood Press, 2003). Islah Jad is a professor of political science and gender at Bir Zeit University. She is the author of Women in Politics (Womenʼs Studies Institute/Bir Zeit) and has published widely on womenʼs political participation in Palestine. Uri Hadar is an associate professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the neuropsychology of language and communication. He is also a practising psychotherapist. David Cunningham teaches in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. He is writing a book on the concept of avant garde. Jonathan Impett is a composer, trumpetplayer and lecturer in music at the University of East Anglia. His work has been performed at the Venice Biennale and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He is an editor of the Leonardo Music Journal. Konstantinos Kavoulakos teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the University of Crete. He is the author of Beyond Metaphysics and Scientism: The Interdisciplinary Materialism of Max Horkheimer (Alexandria, 2001). Copyedited and typeset by Illuminati
[email protected] Production and layout by Stewart Martin, Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford Printed by Russell Press, Russell House, Bulwell Lane, Basford, Nottingham NG6 0BT Bookshop distribution UK: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN Tel: 020 8986 4854 USA: Bernard de Boer, 113 East Centre Street, Nutley, New Jersey 07100 Tel: 201 667 9300; Ubiquity Distributors Inc., 607 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217 Tel: 718 875 5491 P H and I L O feminist S O P H Y philosophy CONTENTS MAY/JUNE 2004 COMMENTARY The Hijab and the Republic: Headscarves in France David Macey................................................................................................... 2 Academic Boycott as International Solidarity: The Academic Boycott of Israel Lawrence Davidson and Islah Jad .............................................................. 7 Not So Simple: Reflections on the Academic Boycott of Israel Uri Hadar ...................................................................................................... 13 ARTICLES Notes on Nuance: Rethinking a Philosophy of Modern Music David Cunningham ...................................................................................... 17 The Tragedy of Listening: Nono, Cacciari, Critical Thought and Compositional Practice Jonathan Impett .......................................................................................... 29 Ruptured Formalism: The Challenge of Bioethics and the Limits of Moral Formalism Konstantinos Kavoulakos ........................................................................... 37 REVIEWS Gilbert Achcar, The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder Verna V. Gehring, ed., War after September 11 Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia, eds, Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder Mart