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Book Review: Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Chad Wellmon, Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, 326pp. Becoming Human belongs to two emerging trends in the study of Kant and his… Read more
Psychoanalysis Meets Existentialism: Robert Stolorow on Trauma and Authenticity
Trauma tears apart the context of everyday certainties that sustains us, as Robert Stolorow shows in his new World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011). Stolorow, a founding… Read more
Book Review: The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London Mellamphy’s book aims to draw… Read more
Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy
Thomas Nenon (ed.), Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy, 343pp., vol. 1 of Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy (8 vols.), University of Chicago Press, 2010, 2700pp…. Read more
New Book: Brian Massumi, Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) By Brian Massumi Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing…. Read more
Book Review: Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate
Ann E. Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom, Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jonathan Wolff, University College London In 1923, the British House of Commons… Read more
Book Review: Introduction to Philosophy — Thinking and Poetizing, Heidegger
In the winter semester of 1944, Martin Heidegger began what would be his final lecture course at the University of Freiburg — indeed, his last official lectures as a… Read more
Book Review: Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art
Devin Zane Shaw, Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art, Continuum, 2010 Reviewed by Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University This is a dense and compact reading of an important strand… Read more
New Book: Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Gerhard Richter’s groundbreaking study argues that the concept of “afterness” is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean… Read more
New Book: Speaking Hermeneutically
John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding… Read more
Jason Read: Capital (The Book and the Totality): On Jameson’s Representing Capital
It is impossible not to compare Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One with last year’s The Hegel Variations: in each case it is a rather succinct reflection, a… Read more
Book Review: Dianna Taylor (ed.) – Michel Foucault: Key Concepts
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts is an anthology by contemporary Foucault scholars explaining and applying, as the title suggests, Foucault’s most important ideas. The volume is divided into three parts —… Read more
Book Review: Kamuf – To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida
Peggy Kamuf long ago established herself as one of Jacques Derrida’s most discerning readers and finest translators, but in To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida, she offers her readers… Read more
Book Review: Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript: A Critical Guide
One of the most noteworthy features of Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript: A Critical Guide is that it lives up to its subtitle. This collection truly is a guide to the… Read more
Terry Eagleton · Indomitable
How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to… Read more
New Book: The Logic of Cultures : Taborsky Paul
The Logic of Cultures, by Paul Taborsky This book proposes to identify three long-term structures in causal reasoning – in particular, in terms of the relationship between cause and identity… Read more
Book Review: Peter Sloterdijk – Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
Peter Sloterdijk is a clever man. His fame and infamy hinge on his keen ability to provoke controversy and serve up a feast of grilled sacred cows — most recently… Read more
Book Review: Peter E. Gordon – Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos
In 2003, Peter Gordon, Professor of History at Harvard University, published a remarkable book on the kinship between two distinctive figures of Weimar culture: the German Jewish philosopher, theologian, and… Read more
New Book: Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination (Marxism and Culture)
Following his hugely popular book, The Wisdom of Donkeys, Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. Magical Marxism demands something more of traditional Marxism – something more interesting… Read more
Book Review: Monika M. Langer – Nietzsche’s Gay Science
For many years, Nietzsche studies in the English-speaking world were populated by comprehensive interpretations that focused on concepts, such as the will to power, the overman, and the eternal return,… Read more