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Posted by Devin Shaw | Oct 3, 2016 | News
Since 2010, Symposium has been publishing book reviews and review essays online. Making reviews freely accessible on our website is one way in which we support and try to raise the profile of Canadian scholarship in Continental...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Sep 12, 2016 | Book Reviews
Drucilla Cornell and Stephen D. Seely, The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016; 195 pages. ISBN: 978-0745690742. Reviewed by Tracey Nicholls, Lewis University. This book calls for a...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 11, 2016 | Book Reviews
Angela Ales Bello, The Sense of Things: Toward a Phenomenological Realism, trans. Antonio Calcagno. Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 118. New York: Springer, 2015; 118 pages. ISBN: 978-3319153940. Reviewed by Rodney K.B. Parker,...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 8, 2016 | Book Reviews
LaRose T. Parris, Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015; 208 Pages. ISBN 978-0813938127. By Amir Jaima, Texas A&M University. Being...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 4, 2016 | Book Reviews
Dwayne A. Tunstall, Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013; 176 pages. ISBN: 978-0823251605. Reviewed by Patrick Anderson, Texas A&M...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 31, 2016 | Book Reviews
Alexandre Lefebvre, Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson’s Political Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013; 216 pages. ISBN: 978-0804785792. Reviewed by P. A. Y. Gunter, University of North Texas. Much has...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 31, 2016 | Book Reviews
Elisabeth Goldwyn, Reading Between the Lines: Form and Content in Levinas’s Talmudic Readings, trans. Rachel Kessel. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2015; 222 pages. ISBN: 9780820704838. Reviewed by Michael Maidan,...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 7, 2016 | Book Exchange
Symposium inaugurates a new series, Book Exchanges, with Matthew R. McLennan’s review of Devin Zane Shaw’s Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Shaw’s review of McLennan’s Philosophy, Sophistry,...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 7, 2016 | Book Reviews
Matthew R. McLennan, Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy: Badiou’s Dispute with Lyotard. London: Bloomsbury, 2015; 150 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4725-7416-9. Reviewed by Devin Zane Shaw, Carleton University and University of Ottawa...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 7, 2016 | Book Reviews
Devin Zane Shaw, Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016; 224 pages. ISBN: 978-1472508218. Reviewed by Matthew R. McLennan, Saint Paul University Devin Zane Shaw’s Egalitarian Moments...
Read MoreDu point de vue formel, n’importe quelle mauvaise idée qui passe par la tête d’un homme est néanmoins plus élevée que n’importe quelle production de la nature, car elle possède toujours spiritualité et liberté.