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Book Review: Schleiermacher
From NDPR, a review of The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge Companions to Religion) The Cambridge Companion to Schleiermacher, a volume in the Cambridge Companions to Religion series, is… Read more
Book Review: Nietzsche’s New Regime of the Soul
From NDPR, a review of Horst Hutter's Shaping the Future: Nietzsche's New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices Shaping the Future argues that Nietzsche's diagnosis of decadence… Read more
etext: Empire
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Empire Perfect, printable PDF with the right pagination. Click here.
Foucault on Truth
Searle and Foucault on Truth C.G. Prado's work has been dedicated to the narrowing of the divide between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy. His first book, Starting with Foucault: An Introduction… Read more
Book Review: Benedict Anderson
Two reviews of the works of Benedict Anderson. The first review, by TJ Clark, addresses Anderson's classic Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: Writers only pretend to be embarrassed at… Read more
Book Review: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage
From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Peter Gordon reviews Marlène Zarader's The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage The questions that guide Zarader's investigation are at once intriguing and highly… Read more
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir
From Indiana University Press, The Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir: Critical Essays: Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in 1990, interest in the… Read more
Book Review: Kant on the Human Standpoint
From NDPR, Emily Carson reviews Beatrice Longuenesse's Kant on the Human Standpoint That standpoint is characterised by our possessing apriori modes of ordering representations: forms of intuition and forms of… Read more
Miguel de Beistegui: New Heidegger
Here is the publisher's description of Miguel de Beistegui's New Heidegger: Martin Heidegger's work is pivotal in the history of modern European philosophy. The New Heidegger presents a comprehensive and… Read more
Book Review: Jameson on Zizek
From London Review of Books, Frederic Jameson reviews Zizek's Parallax View: As every schoolchild knows by now, a new book by Zizek is supposed to include, in no special order,… Read more
Book Review: Current Theory and Continental Philosophy
From NDPR, Theodore Schatzki reviews Stephen Daniel's (ed.) Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy Philosophy is peculiarly concerned with its own history. Scholars in other disciplines often weigh the validity of… Read more
Book Review: Walter Benjamin
Here is a review of Walter Benjamin's On Hashish: In September 1940, while fleeing from the Gestapo, Walter Benjamin ended his life with an overdose of morphine. In preceding years,… Read more
“An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics”
A review of Christian Helmut Wenzel's Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics : Wenzel also brings a considerable knowledge of the history of thought, philosophical and otherwise, as background to Kant’s position… Read more
Book Review: Husserl, Heidegger and Imagination
From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Julia Jansen reviews Brian Elliott's Phenomenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger: With Phenomenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger Elliott puts forward a compact… Read more
Ranciere
An interview with Ranciere in Le Monde Diplomatique (via PTDR), which centers on Ranciere's political aesthetics. Also: a review of two of Ranciere's works: The Politics of Aesthetics The Flesh of… Read more
“Heidegger and the Greeks”
Indiana University Press has just published a volume, edited by Drew Hyland, entitled Heidegger And the Greeks: Interpretive Essays (Studies in Continental Thought): Martin Heidegger's sustained reflection on Greek thought… Read more
Book Review: After Blanchot
From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Gerald Bruns' review of After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy (Monash Romance), ed. Leslie Hill et. al. From the book's publisher: What does it mean to… Read more
Book Reviews: More Levinas
Jay Michaelson reviews two recent books – one by and one on Levinas: Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics, Cornell University Press (2005) Emmanuel Levinas, Humanism… Read more
Book Review: Levinas and Theology
From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Adriaan Peperzak reviews Michael Purcell's Levinas and Theology Here is the "Introduction" from Purcell's book (from Cambridge University Press in pdf.)
Book Review: Nietzsche
H-Net has a review of two recent books on Nietzsche: T.K. Seung, Nietzsche’s Epic of the Soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. Nicholas Pappas, The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning… Read more