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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...
Read MoreEnough now of absurd theories. No conceivable theory can make us err with respect to the principle of all principles: that every originary presentive intuition is a legitimizing source of cognition, that everything originarily (so to speak in its “personal actuality”) offered to us in “intuition” is to be accepted simply as what it is presented as being, but also only within the limits in which it is presented there.