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Posted by Devin Shaw | Jan 25, 2016 | Book Reviews
Beata Stawarska, Saussure’s Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015; 286 pages. ISBN 9780190213022. Reviewed by Miglena...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jan 14, 2016 | Book Reviews
Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event, and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014; 340 pages. ISBN: 9780820704722. Reviewed by Daniel Adsett,...
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Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Dec 1, 2015 | Book Reviews
Christina M. Gschwandtner, Postmodern Apologetics?: Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013; 378 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8232-4275-7. Christina M. Gschwandtner, Degrees of Givenness: On...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Nov 18, 2015 | Book Reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy and Adèle Van Reeth. La jouissance. Paris: Éditions Plon, 2014; 144 pages. ISBN: 9782259223201. Reviewed by Peter Gratton, Memorial University When we fuck, have we lost something? Together and apart, alone and...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Nov 4, 2015 | Book Reviews
Abed Azzam, Nietzsche versus Paul. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015; 209 pages. ISBN 9780231169301. Reviewed by Daniel I. Harris, Hunter College-CUNY Contributions to Nietzsche studies often fall within one of two...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 25, 2015 | Book Reviews
Markus Gabriel, Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015; 272 pages. ISBN: 9780748692897. Reviewed by Joshua Lalonde, University of Ottawa In Fields of Sense, Markus Gabriel expands on...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Aug 25, 2015 | Book Reviews
Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014; 176 pages. ISBN: 978082235527. Reviewed by Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland Janet Roitman’s Anti-Crisis deserves to be one of the more...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jul 22, 2015 | Book Reviews
Matthew C. Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; 801 pp. ISBN: 9781137334749. Reviewed by Christopher Lauer, University of Hawaii at Hilo Scholars of sporadic ambition and a...
Read MorePosted by Devin Shaw | Jun 20, 2015 | Book Reviews
Giorgio Baruchello and Ingerid S. Straume (eds), Creation, Rationality and Autonomy: Essays on Cornelius Castoriadis. København, Denmark: NSU Press and Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet, 2013; 273pp. ISBN 978-87-87564-99-1. Reviewed by...
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.