Contents

• Colin Nicholson: Signifying Nothing: Noting Barthes’ Empire of Signs . . . . . .5
• Judith Squires: Public Man, Private Woman: Feminist Approaches to the Public/Private Dichotomy . . . . . . . .16
• Brian McGrail: Environmentalism: Utopian or Scientific? . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
• Paul White: Small is Small – Or the Shrinking of Schumacher . . . . . . . . . . . 38
• Peter Martin: National Strike at Ford-UK . . . . . . . .46
• Robert Mahoney: On Civility & Terror . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
• George Davie: On Common Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
• Kosmas Psychopedis: Notes on Mediation-Analysis . . . . . . .72
• John Holloway: An Introduction to Capital (or: How I fell in love with a Ballerina) . . . . . . . . . . . .79
• Ewan Davidson: The Commonsense of Concessions – or ‘HE AINT’T HEAVY HE’S MY BROTHER . . . . . . . 83