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Posted by Charlene Elsby | Mar 24, 2020 | Book Reviews
Dietrich von Hildebrand, Aesthetics, Vol. I, John F. Crosby ed., Brian McNeil tr., Steubenville, OH: The von Hildebrand Project, 2016; 470 pages. ISBN: 978-1939773043. Dietrich von Hildebrand, Aesthetics, Vol. II, John F. Crosby...
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D.N. Rodowick, What Philosophy Wants from Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018; 224 pages. ISBN: 978-0226513195. Reviewed by Patrick Marshall, University of Toronto. Much of what D.N. Rodowick has offered to film...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Jan 14, 2020 | Book Reviews
Iain Macdonald, What Would Be Different: Figures of Possibility in Adorno. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019; 248 pages. ISBN: 978-1503610279. Reviewed by Deborah Cook, University of Windsor. What Would Be Different...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Dec 13, 2019 | Book Reviews
Graham Harman, Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. St. Ives: Pelican Books, 2018; 295 pages. ISBN: 978-0241269152. Reviewed by Niki Young, University of Malta, Junior College. Graham Harman is best known for...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Nov 30, 2019 | Book Reviews
Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference. Mireille Calle-Gruber (ed.), Jeff Fort (tr.) New York: Fordham UP, 2016; 93 pages. ISBN:...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Nov 12, 2019 | Book Reviews
Konstantinos Kavoulakos, Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Praxis: From Neo-Kantianism to Marxism. London: Bloomsbury, 2018; 264 pages. ISBN: 978-1474267410. Reviewed by Saulius Jurga, University of Messina. Over the last decade,...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Oct 28, 2019 | Book Reviews
Élodie Boublil, ed. Vulnérabilité et empathie: Approches phénoménologiques. Paris: Hermann, 2018; 340 pages. ISBN: 978-2705697457. Reviewed by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College at Western University. Research on...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Oct 10, 2019 | Book Reviews
Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016; 304 pages. ISBN: 978-0231178723. Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver. Can capitalism be...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Aug 30, 2019 | Book Reviews
Thomas Nail, Being and Motion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; 544 pages. ISBN: 978-0190908911. Reviewed by Michael J. Bennett, University of King’s College. Thomas Nail’s ambitious philosophical project starts with the...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Aug 28, 2019 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Richard Westerman, Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism: Reification Revalued. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; 325 pages. ISBN 978-3319932866. Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Manchester Metropolitan University. Some thinkers’...
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