Radical Philosophy Association Records

Call Number

TAM.466

Date

circa 1982-2026, ongoing, inclusive

Creator

Radical Philosophy Association (Role: Donor)

Radical Philosophy Association

Jones, Richard A. (Role: Donor)

Extent

12.5 Linear Feet

in 12 record cartons and 1 manuscript box.

Extent

5 websites

in 5 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

The Radical Philosophy Association Records relate to both the Radical Philosophy Association and to its journal Radical Philosophy Review, and contain correspondence, minutes, typescripts, websites, conference materials, membership and financial documents, printed ephemera, and other internal documents related to its political activism, including within the American Philosophical Association.

Historical Note

Founded in 1982, the Radical Philosophy Association is an international organization whose members struggle against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, disability discrimination, environmental ruin, and all other forms of domination, drawing upon a variety of radical traditions including phenomenology, Marxism, anarchism, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory and environmentalism. Its efforts center on conferences and publications. The RPA also publishes the journal Radical Philosophy Review.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.

Scope and Contents

The records relate to both the Radical Philosophy Association and to its journal Radical Philosophy Review, and contain correspondence, minutes, typescripts, archived websites, conference materials, membership and financial materials, printed ephemera, and other internal documents related to its political activism, including within the American Philosophical Association.

Subjects

Organizations

Radical Philosophy Association (Role: Donor); Radical Philosophy Association; American Philosophical Association

People

Jones, Richard A. (Role: Donor)

Topics

Philosophers -- Political activity; Philosophers -- Societies, etc.; Philosophy -- Political aspects

Donors

Jones, Richard A.; Radical Philosophy Association

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Any copyright held by the Radical Philosophy Association were transferred to New York University in 2009 by Richard A. Jones. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact special.collections@nyu.edu.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Radical Philosophy Association Records; TAM 466; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Radical Philosophy Association Records; TAM 466; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated in 2009 by Richard A. Jones on behalf of the Radical Philosophy Association; additional materials were donated in 2010 and 2011.

http://home.grandecom.net/~jackgm/RPA.html was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2008 as part of the Other Left Activism Web Archive. In 2012, http://www.radicalphilosophyassociation.org/ was added to the web archive. In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2018, https://www.rpamag.org/ was added to the web archive. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.106. In December 2025, https://www.rpamag.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@radicalphilosophyassociation/videos were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2026.005.

Custodial History

The Alternative Press Center held these records until 2009 when it donated them to the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. The Radical Philosophy Association allowed the Tamiment Library/Wagner Labor Archives to take possession of these items in 2009 and sent additional materials in 2010. A poster for the 9th Biennial Conference was donated in 2010 and found in repository.

Appraisal

Select financial documents, mostly from conference registration, were appraised and destroyed, based on the presence of sensitive personal information and a relative lack of evidential, intrinsic, or informational value.

Take Down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the repository email.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Separated Materials

Photographs and slides were separated from this collection and established as the Radical Philosophy Association Photographs and Slides (PHOTOS 272).

Collection processed by

Tamiment staff

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-01-27 16:13:24 UTC.

Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

In 2014, the archived websites were added as a series. In 2019, an additional website was added to the finding aid. Additional websites were added in 2026.

Revisions to this Guide

September 2019, January 2026: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives