Marc Crépon and Bernard Stiegler, De la démocratie participative: Fondements et limites. Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2007; 118 pages. ISBN: 978-2755500332.
Review by Travis Holloway, SUNY Stony Brook/NYU. Forthcoming in Symposium.
This year’s presidential elections in France, Russia, the United States, Yemen and elsewhere will happen at a time when protests in these countries and around the … Read More …
Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009; 420 pages. ISBN: 978-0253220639.
Review by Anna Carastathis, California State University, Los Angeles.
For those familiar with McWhorter’s work, the publication of Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America was long awaited.1 I had encountered an early form of the argument McWhorter rehearses in this book … Read More …
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Félix Guattari, Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977-1985 (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009; 341 pages. ISBN: 978-1584350736.
Review by Maxwell Kennel, University of Waterloo. Forthcoming in Symposium.
The release of a second edition of Félix Guattari’s Soft Subversions might serve to indicate a rising interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst and philosopher. To confirm this indication … Read More …
Rob Boddice (ed.), Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Leiden: Brill, 2011; 348 pages. ISBN: 978-9004177948.
Review by Tracy Colony, European College of Liberal Arts. Forthcoming in Symposium.
One of the most important themes in recent continental philosophy has been the resurgence of the question of the human. Traditionally, what was proper to the human as such was articulated through the … Read More …
Bernard Stiegler, For a New Critique of Political Economy. Trans. Daniel Ross. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. 154 pages. ISBN: 978-0745648040.
Review by Devin Zane Shaw, University of Ottawa. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Bernard Stiegler has developed, over the last decade, an analysis of the ways in which technology transforms human consciousness. Drawing on the work of Heidegger and Derrida, Stiegler … Read More …
Hauke Brunkhorst, Habermas. Leipzig: Reclam, 2006. ISBN: 978-3379203098. Gordon James Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0192840950. Mattias Iser and David Strecker, Jürgen Habermas: zur Einführung. Hamburg: Junius Verlag, 2010. ISBN: 978-3885066682.
Review by Kevin W. Gray, American University of Sharjah. Forthcoming in Symposium.
The sense among academics that Habermas’ writings … Read More …
Mauro Carbone, An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas. Translated by Niall Keane. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010; 113 pages. ISBN: 978-1438430218.
Review by Joe Balay, The Pennsylvania State University. Forthcoming in Symposium.
In his new book, An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas, Mauro Carbone proposes to follow “to the letter” Proust’s … Read More …
