Sarah Allen, The Philosophical Sense of Transcendence: Levinas and Plato on Loving Beyond Being. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009; 330 pages. ISBN: 978-0820704227.
Review by Tanja Staehler, University of Sussex. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Sarah Allen’s book is concerned with the philosophical sense of transcendence, understood as a movement which exceeds or crosses boundaries. Some take this notion to be incomprehensible, while others believe that it belongs to theology rather than philosophy. In view of this, … Read More …
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Catherine Mills, The Philosophy of Agamben. Montreal and Kingston: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2008; 153 pages. ISBN: 978-0773534889.
Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009; 463 pages. ISBN: 978-0804761437.
Review by Jonathan Short, York University. Forthcoming in Symposium.
That ontological concerns feature prominently in the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has undoubtedly complicated his reception, particularly in North America. To say that the intellectual … Read More …
Tanja Staehler, Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics. London & New York: Routledge, 2010; xii + 284 pages. ISBN: 978-0415991803.
Review by Sarah Allen, Concordia University. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Levinas’ thought is known as one of extremes, radically separating self from other, singularity from universality, and ethics from overarching political structures and philosophical concepts. A critical question that often arises is how one can move from one extreme to … Read More …
Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds (eds), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen, 2008; 255 pages. ISBN: 978-1844651160.
Review by Martin Goldstein, St-Paul University. Forthcoming in Symposium.
This volume in Acumen’s Key Concepts series makes a significant contribution to the growing appreciation of Merleau-Ponty’s body of work. The editors, Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds, have assembled a remarkably concise volume that is of interest to both those seeking an introduction to Merleau-Ponty’s thought, as well as … Read More …
Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. Melbourne: re-press, 2009; 247 pages. ISBN: 978-0980544060.
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Review by Peter Gratton, University of San Diego. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Bruno Latour has long been a specter hovering on the edges of recent Continental philosophy: his work is cited frequently enough to accord him the (sometimes dubious) status of famous French philosopher, but he tends to fall as a shadow figure outshined … Read More …
Angela Ales Bello, The Divine in Husserl and Other Explorations. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009; 170 + xiv pages. ISBN: 978-1402089107.
Review by Jeff Mitscherling, University of Guelph. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Interest in religious and theological themes in continental philosophy has grown so rapidly over the last few decades that we now speak of its “theological turn,” most often with particular regard to developments in French philosophy. While it has been argued by some that religion and … Read More …
Rudi Visker, The Inhuman Condition: Looking for Difference After Levinas and Heidegger. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2008; 299 pages. ISBN: 978-0820704173.
Review by Daniel Skibra, European Graduate School. Forthcoming in Symposium.
Rudi Visker’s The Inhuman Condition is a collection of nine chapters flanked by introductory and concluding essays, arranged thematically in three sections. Their purported motivation is the current preoccupation with difference in European philosophy and social thought. While most appeared previously as stand-alone essays, … Read More …
