We are pleased to release the June 2008 Issue of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy

The journal website: http://www.kritike.org
Current issue: http://www.kritike.org/Current_Issue.html
Call for papers: http://www.kritike.org/Call_for_Papers.html

KRITIKE VOLUME TWO NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2008)

1. Editorial: Marking the First Year of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy - The Editor

Articles:

2. Interruptions: Derrida and Hospitality - Mark W. Westmoreland

3. Iris Murdoch’s The Bell: Tragedy, Love, and Religion - Kenneth Masong

4. ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ - Saitya Brata Das

5. A Comparative Study on the Theme of Human Existence in the Novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose - F. P. A. Demeterio

6. The War on Concepts: The Thought of Jan Patocka and the War on Terror - Katy Scrogin

7. Mass Mentality, Culture Industry, Fascism - Saladdin Said Ahmed

8. The Causal Relevance and Heterogeneity of Program Explanations in the Face of Explanatory Exclusion - Wilson Cooper

9. A Freewheeling Defense of Kant’s Resolution of the Third Antinomy - Todd D. Janke

10. The Structures of Perception: An Ecological Perspective - Michael James Braund

Book Reviews :

11. Powell, Jason, Jacques Derrida: A Biography - Marko Zlomislic

12. Evans, C. Stephen, Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays - Robert C. Cheeks

13. Drake, David, Sartre and Bernasconi, Robert, How to Read Sartre - Marella Ada Mancenido

His birthday is June 21, so one day late is not too bad:

And Critique de la raison dialectique (both volumes)

I have reviewed Tamara Chaplin’s Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television

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“What is the opposite of bullshit?” Possibilities of intellectual engagement, since Sartre: An interview with Bill Martin / Joseph G. Ramsey

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Description of Rethinking Facticity, eds, Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson

The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance of facticity in its historical context and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, and Fanon, among others, they trace its significance from life-philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore its philosophical implications. The following questions are addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of finitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new interpretations of facticity.

See the publisher’s site for more details, such as the table of contents and the pdf of the introduction.

A review of David Reisman'sSartre's Phenomenology (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy)

This difficult, flawed, thought-provoking book comprises five chapters: 1. Sartre and Strawson. 2. Pre-reflective consciousness and the perceptive field. 3. Impure reflection and the constitution of the psyche. 4. The Look and the constitution of persons. 5. Bad faith. It seems to me helpful to see it as consisting of two overlapping books: the first, spanning Chapters 1-4, outlines what David Reisman takes to be Sartre's answers to two linked post-Strawsonian questions: how a conscious subject comes to apprehend a genuinely objective world, and how such a subject constitutes itself as a person, i.e. a psycho-physical object. (Anglo-American post-Strawsonians should however be warned that little beyond Chapter 1 of this book will be readily accessible to them; even advanced students of Sartre will have to work hard.) The second, occupying roughly Chapters 2-5, is a contribution to the literature on bad faith that treats in more than usual detail the notions of impure reflection and psychic objects and which highlights the role of the Look in bad faith. Reisman uses Transcendence of the Ego, trs. F. Williams and R. Kirkpatrick, Noonday Press: New York, 1957 (hereafter TE), and Being and Nothingness, tr. H.E. Barnes, Washington Square Press: New York, 1966 (hereafter BN).

The rest of the review

The 2008 NASS program is now available.

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The previously mentioned book by Jonathan Judaken, Sartre and the Jewish Question, has been reviewed by Ron Aronson in the TLS. 

Click here for the review 

I had posted these before but those videos are no longer available. Here they are again, from a different site:

1 - Nietzsche

2 - Heidegger

3 - Sartre