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Posted by Iain Macdonald | Jun 22, 2010 | Book Reviews
Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze, by Brett Buchanan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008; 223 pages. Review by Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis. Published in Symposium...
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Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity, by David Sherman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007; 328 pages. Review by Kevin W. Gray, Laval University/American University of Sharjah. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). David...
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Speaking of Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and the Struggle for Liberation, by Diane Enns. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; 183 pages. Review by Anna Mudde, York University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). In this...
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The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction, by Lorenzo Fabbri. New York: Continuum, 2008; 150 pages. Review by Aaron James Landry, York University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). Despite Rorty’s...
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Edith Stein: Comunità e mondo della vita—Società Diritto Religione [Edith Stein: Community and the Lifeworld—Society, Law, Religion], edited by Angela Ales Bello and Anna Maria Pezzella. Rome: Lateran University Press, 2008; 160...
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Kierkegaard’s Instant: On Beginnings, by David J. Kangas. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007; 198 pages. Review by Robyn Lee, York University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). This important book...
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Rephrasing Heidegger: A Companion to Being and Time, by Richard Sembera. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007; 309 pages. Review by David Weinkauf, McGill University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). Although two English...
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Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future, by Nikolas Kompridis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006; xv + 337 pages. Review by Patrick Gamez, University of Notre Dame. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). With...
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Lectures on Logic: Berlin 1831, by G.W.F. Hegel. Translated by Clark Butler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008; xxiii + 233 pages. Review by Charles P. Rodger, University of Alberta. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009)....
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Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason, by Scott Stapleford. New York: Continuum, 2008; 152 pages. Review by Daniel Skibra, European Graduate School. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009). Scott Stapleford’s...
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.