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Posted by Charlene Elsby | Aug 6, 2019 | Book Reviews
Elena Pulcini, Care of the World: Fear, Responsibility and Justice in the Global Age, trans. Karen Whittle. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013; 272 pages. ISBN: 978-9400774650. Reviewed by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College at...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Jul 9, 2019 | Book Reviews
Fred Moten, Black and Blur. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017; 360 pages. ISBN: 978-0822370161. Fred Moten, Stolen Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018; 336 pages. ISBN: 978-0822370581. Fred Moten, The Universal Machine....
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Jul 7, 2019 | Book Reviews
Antonio Calcagno (ed.), Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion. New York: Springer, 2018; 171 pages. ISBN: 978-3319975917. Reviewed by Charlene Elsby, Purdue University Fort Wayne. This is the...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Jun 12, 2019 | Book Reviews
Michael Naas, Plato and the Invention of Life. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018; 288 pages. ISBN: 978-0823279678. Reviewed by Peter Gratton, Southeastern Louisiana University. Plato and the Invention of Life begins with...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | May 30, 2019 | Book Reviews
Richard A. Lynch, Foucault’s Critical Ethics. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016; 248 pages. ISBN: 978-0823271252. Reviewed by Simon Dutton, University of South Florida. Foucault’s Critical Ethics, Richard A. Lynch’s first...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Mar 6, 2019 | Book Reviews
Susan M. Dodd and Neil G. Robertson eds., Hegel and Canada: Unity of Opposites? Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018; 408 pp. ISBN: 978-1442644472. Reviewed by Robert Burch, University of Alberta. This volume consists of...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Feb 25, 2019 | Book Reviews
Maria Robaszkiewicz, Übungen im politischen Denken: Hannah Arendts Schriften als Einleitung der politischen Praxis. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-3658165161. Reviewed by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Jan 22, 2019 | Book Reviews
Sina Kramer, Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 241 pp. ISBN: 978-0190625986. Reviewed by Amanda Parris, University of San Francisco. Moving from Glas...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Dec 6, 2018 | Book Reviews
Anthony Paul Smith, Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016; 224 pages. ISBN: 978-0745671239. Reviewed by Sean Capener, University of Toronto. The last decade has seen a steadily rising interest in the work...
Read MorePosted by Charlene Elsby | Nov 14, 2018 | Book Reviews
Christophe Charle, Birth of the Intellectuals: 1880-1900, David Fernbach and G.M. Goshgarian trs. Cambridge: Polity, 2015; 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0745690353. Reviewed by Christina Rawls, Roger Williams University. J’accuse! The 2015...
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