Monthly Archives: November 2008
New Book: Radical Atheism
Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Description from the publisher’s website: Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida…. Read more
SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Northwestern University Third Annual Conference April 23–25, 2009 Keynote Addresses: Samuel SCHEFFLER: “The Normativity of Tradition” Seana SHIFFRIN: “Inducing Deliberation” SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The… Read more
TOC: International Journal of Philosophical Studies: Volume 16 Issue 5, 2008
Autonomy, Reciprocity, and Responsibility: Darwall and Levinas on the Second Person, Michael D. Barber Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity, Patrick Stokes Belief and Self-consciousness, David Hunter Postmetaphysical… Read more
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY 3RD ANNUAL GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE: WHY NIETZSCHE? WHICH NIETZSCHE? KEYNOTE SPEAKER KATHLEEN HIGGINS THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN MARCH 28, 2009 In the more than 130 years… Read more
College, Sex, & Philosophy Robert Stewart and Michael Bruce (eds.) Abstracts are sought for a new title in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general editorship of Fritz… Read more
Zizek: Use Your Illusions
Noam Chomsky called for people to vote for Obama ‘without illusions’. I fully share Chomsky’s doubts about the real consequences of Obama’s victory: from a pragmatic perspective, it is quite… Read more
TOC: Feminist Review: Volume 90, Issue 1 (October 2008)
TOC ‘I Like Your Colour!’ skin bleaching and geographies of race in urban Ghana – Jemima Pierre why queer diaspora? – Meg Wesling diasporic governmentality: on the gendered limits of… Read more
Critchley on Obama
Obama’s victory marks a symbolically powerful moment in American history, defined as it is by the stain of slavery and the fact of racism. It will have hugely beneficial consequences… Read more
Pinkard’s translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
On his own site, Terry Pinkard has a link to the pdf of his translation of the Phenomenology. It is bilingual, side by side.
Radio shows: Girard and Nietzsche’s letters
Philosspher’s Zone: Scapegoats and sacrifices – Rene Girard Download Audio – 15112008 Have you ever found that you didn’t want something until you noticed that somebody else wanted it? Were… Read more
Department of Philosophy 5th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference The Sacred and the Secular: Philosophy and Religion in the 21st Century February 20-21, 2009 Keynote Speaker: John D. Caputo, Syracuse… Read more
Book Review: Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) begins, as any text with that or any similar title should, with a discussion of the difficulties of firmly fixing an… Read more
New Book: French Interpretations of Heidegger
Edited by Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew, French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception From the publisher’s site: French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of… Read more
On Obama
Judith Butler, “Uncritical Exuberance” Jacques-Alain Miller, “Obama: Métis or Hermaphrodite?”
Yes We Can
Here in DC people are dancing in the streets. I usually stay away from political issues on this site, but if I had to post one thing, it is the… Read more
CFP: Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference
Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference University of Texas-Pan American March 27-28, 2009 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa -The Society for Student Philosophers… Read more