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Scott Lash: Media and Religion in the Work of Walter Benjamin
Via Roundtable: There is a certain lineage from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Walter Benjamin. Benjamin does notably use the idea of the monad. There is a section on Monadology in… Read more
Ricoeur on Arts, Language and Hermeneutic Aesthetics
Here is an interview with Paul Ricoeur on Arts, Language and Hermeneutic Aesthetics. Just a passage: To return to Kant, it is striking to see that he was very severely… Read more
Merleau-Ponty
The Merleau-Ponty Cirlce website has moved to a new address (though the design of the site has not changed). Here (MS Word Document) is the program of the 31st Annual… Read more
Ricoeur’s 2004 John W. Kluge Prize Lecture (in English)
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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
Inquiry: Volume 49 (4) August 2006
Nigel Pleasants — Nonsense on Stilts? Wittgenstein, Ethics, and the Lives of Animals Steve Vanderheiden — Conservation, Foresight, and the Future Generations Problem Martin Schwab — The Fate of Phenomenology… 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
E-Text: Kierkegaard “Fear and Trembling”
I am putting together a comprehensive list of e-texts of canonical works. If you have any in mind, please feel free to email me. It is a task with its… Read more
Philosophy & Social Criticism: July 2006, Volume 32, No. 5
Ernst Wolff — From phenomenology to critical theory: the genesis of Adorno’s critical theory from his reading of Husserl Andreas Kalyvas — The basic norm and democracy in Hans Kelsen’s… 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
July Issue of “International Journal of Baudrillard Studies”
Volume Three, Number Two (July 2006) Articles Louis Arnoux: Split or Die? The Innocent Fate of Humans. Jean Baudrillard: The Riots of Autumn or The Other Who Will Not Be Mothered…. 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.)
Philosophy Today — Summer 2006. Vol. 50, Iss. 2
An ethics of reading: Adorno, Levinas, and Irigaray — Michelle Boulous Walker Being and givenness in Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous authorship — Travis O’brian Finding uses for used-up words: thinking weltanschauung “after”… Read more