Monthly Archives: January 2011
In Egypt and Tunisia the will of the people is not a hollow cliche | Peter Hallward
The day after popular pressure forced Tunisia’s autocratic president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from power on 14 January, Egypt’s government declared that it “respects the will of the Tunisian people”…. Read more
New Journal: American Dialectic: Inaugural Issue
Volume I (2011) No. 1 (January) – Open-access Plato’s Republic and the Politics of Convalescence, Jacob Howland Evil and the Parable of the World in the Consolation of Philosophy, William Wians Kant’s… Read more
Book Review: Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (CCCPR) is the latest installment in a Companion seriesdevoted to a single philosophical text rather than a philosopher. Like the Companions… Read more
Benjamin Kunkel: Marx’s Return
The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism. During the panicky period between the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the official end… Read more
Philosophers Zone – 29 January 2011 – The Philosophical Baby – Alison Gopnik
Given that we all begin our lives as children, it is perhaps surprising that philosophy has paid such little attention, relatively speaking, to childhood.
CFP: Third Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition
Third Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) Topic: “THE POLITICAL ANIMAL” Seattle University OCTOBER 7 AND 8, 2011 Abstracts of 500 words (or complete papers)… Read more
Robert Solomon: Sartre’s Phenomenology
This is actually an audio file, hiding beneath a youtube video, by Robert Solomon on Sartre. Link
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy: Vol 18, No 1 (2008–2010)
Vol 18, No 1 (2008–2010) Open-access Table of Contents Articles Julia Kristeva’s Maternal Passions Kelly Oliver Foucault’s Critique of the Science of Sexuality: The Function of Science within Bio-power Sokthan… Read more
Book Review: Fabio Vighi – On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation
On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation Fabio Vighi, On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation, Continuum, 2010, 189pp., $120.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780826464439. Reviewed by Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico With his… Read more
Reconstruction 10.3 (2010): Inventions of Activism
Editors’ Introduction: What is Outsider Criticism? (open-access journal) Outsiders Evolution, Popular Culture, and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge, by James Clinton Whose America is This, Anyway?: Class, Identity, and the… Read more
CFP: Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts
CALL FOR PAPERS Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts May 4-6, 2012 King’s University College and The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada INVITED… Read more
JBSP Volume 42 – Number 13 – January 2011
JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Volume 42 – No 1 – January 2011 HABIT Edited by Clare Carlisle and Mark Sinclair Including the following articles: PIERRE RODRIGO… Read more
Video: Michel Foucault par lui-même
Infatigable explorateur des marges, Michel Foucault, mort il y a vingt ans, fut un penseur brillant et atypique. Le documentaire de François Ewald et Philippe Calderon, est consacré à la pensée du philosophe : grâce à des extraits de ses livres et de ses conférences ou lectures, et en s’appuyant sur des images qui les mettent en résonnance, voyage au centre de la pensée de Foucault.
New Review of Film and Television Studies
New Review of Film and Television Studies, Volume 8 Issue 4 2010 Introduction to Christian Metz’s Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Author: Cormac Deane Impersonal Enunciation, or the… Read more
Hans Jonas: Philosophical Essays: from ancient creed to technological man
Philosophical Essays: from ancient creed to technological man Philosophical Essays is a pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the… Read more
New Journal: The Journal of Feminist Scholarship
The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a new twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research.
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Sorry for the interruptions. As you can see, the site has been redesigned completely. This new approach allows for contents to stay on the front-page longer. It has taken more… Read more
Say What? “SARTRE Vehicle Platooning”
“SARTRE Vehicle Platooning: The Next Evolution In Fully Automated Cars One of the most ambitious projects financed by the European Union (EU), SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), that… Read more