ABSTRACT
As essentially oppositional and counter-hegemonic, radical philosophy seeks to undermine or dismantle that which it opposes through successful, theoretically informed political struggle. Radical philosophy thus utilizes the work of disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, and economics, even as it takes a critical stance toward the methods they employ and the material interests that they serve. The important historical development of transition from the Aristotelian or classical tradition to the modern scientific methodology, which still informs contemporary understandings of objectivity, truth, and the separation of theory from praxis. The developments in inductive and deductive methods, mechanistic theory, and universal methodology that contained an absolute division between mind and matter, constitutes a scientific revolution. The production and distribution of knowledge had material constraints determined in large part by the purse strings of private or public patronage. The social theoretical framework is one of conflict so attention must be paid to the empirical configurations of specific social structures, practices, and material conditions.
