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Posted by Devin Shaw | Feb 21, 2017 | Book Reviews
D. N. Rodowick, Philosophy’s Artful Conversation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015; 320 pages. ISBN: 978-0674416673. Reviewed by Anders Bergstrom, Wilfrid Laurier University. D.N. Rodowick’s Philosophy’s Artful...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Feb 21, 2017 | Book Reviews
Jacques Rancière, The Intervals of Cinema. Translated by John Howe. London: Verso, 2014; 154 pages. ISBN: 987-1781686065. Reviewed by Konstantinos Koutras, Carleton University. What are the poetics of a cinema of equality? Given...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Feb 19, 2017 | Book Reviews
Michael Naas, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Derrida’s Final Seminar. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015; 232 pages. ISBN: 978-0823263295. Reviewed by Ege Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount. The End of The...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jan 11, 2017 | Book Reviews
Timothy Secret, The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning: On Responsibility in Eulogy. London: Bloomsbury, 2015; 296 pages. ISBN: 978-1472575142. Reviewed by Adam Haaga, Memorial University. What do we owe the dead? And how are we...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jan 8, 2017 | Book Reviews
Claude Romano, At the Heart of Reason. Trans. Michael Smith and Claude Romano. New York: Northwestern University Press, 2015; 635 pages. ISBN: 978-0810131378. Reviewed by Maxwell Kennel, McMaster University. Claude Romano’s book...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Dec 15, 2016 | Book Reviews
Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015; 362 pages. ISBN: 978-0262029681. Reviewed by Clinton Debogorski, University of Toronto....
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Nov 28, 2016 | Book Reviews
Gary A. Mullen. Adorno on Politics After Auschwitz. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015; 158 pages. ISBN: 978-1498515740. Reviewed by Shannon Mariotti, Southwestern University. In a way that is both broad-ranging in its treatment...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Nov 23, 2016 | Book Reviews
Gerhard Richter, Inheriting Walter Benjamin. London: Bloomsbury, 2016; 170 pages. ISBN: 978-1474251242. Reviewed by Alexei Procyshyn, Monash University. Gerhard Richter’s Inheriting Walter Benjamin is the latest addition to...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Nov 23, 2016 | Book Reviews
Claude Lévi-Strauss, We Are All Cannibals and Other Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016; 176 pages. ISBN: 978-0231170680. Reviewed by Matthew R. McLennan, Saint Paul University. Engaging with Claude Lévi-Strauss...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Oct 19, 2016 | Book Reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy, Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula, trans. Marie-Eve Morin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016; 138 + xxv pages. ISBN: 978-0823270620. Reviewed by Ian James, University of Cambridge. This excellent English...
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