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Posted by Rick Elmore | Sep 8, 2026 | Book Reviews
Owen Ware, Return of the Gods Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature. Oxford University Press, 2026; 280 pp.; $46.00 (hardback) Chris Satoor, York University “We can divine a golden age, a time when truth becomes fable...
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Julie Reshe, Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023; 144 pgs. ISBN: 978-3-031-31200-7 everet smith, Emory University Julie Reshe’s Negative...
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Titus Stahl, Immanent Critique, trans. with John-Baptiste Oduor. London: Rowan & Littlefield, 2021; 348 pages. ISBN: 9781786601797. Alexei Procyshyn, Queen’s University Belfast Originally published in a lengthier German...
Read MorePosted by Rick Elmore | Nov 4, 2025 | Book Reviews
Banu Bargu, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, 504 pp. ISBN: 9780197608531 Reviewed by Iaan Reynolds, Utah Valley University There are many things to praise about Banu...
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Byung-Chul Han, The Spirit of Hope. Translated by Daniel Steuer. New York: Polity, 2024, 111 pp. ISBN: 9781509565191 Reviewed by Tanner R. Layton, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University For Joel Faflak....
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Byung-Chul Han, Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025; 128pp. ISBN: 978-1509558018 Reviewed by Avah Solomon & Robin Barrios, University of Ottawa In Vita Contemplativa (2022), a work of...
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Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Roots of Moral Evil. Steubenville: Hildebrand Press, 2024; 224 pages. ISBN: 9781939773210. Reviewed by Timothy B. Jaeger, Stony Brook University Of the many diverse and intricate ideas developed in...
Read MorePosted by Rick Elmore | May 28, 2025 | Book Reviews
Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy. Translated by Simone Ghelli Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, viii + 170 pp. ISBN: 9781503637375 Reviewed by Antonio Calcagno, King’s...
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Henry Somers-Hall. Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022; 264 pages. ISBN: 978-1-316-51790-1 Reviewed by Chen Yang, Hunan University. Henry...
Read MorePosted by Rick Elmore | Feb 4, 2025 | Book Reviews
Joan Braune, Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope. London: Routledge, 2024; 143pp. ISBN: 978-0367696986. Reviewed by D.Z. Shaw, Douglas College Within the small but growing field of antifascist...
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.