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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...
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