Mar 192013
 

Scott L. Marratto, The Intercorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity. Albany:SUNY Press, 2012; 242 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4384-4231-0.

Review by Laura McMahon, Villanova University

Scott Marratto’s excellent book on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of subjectivity accomplishes several things at once. First and foremost, Marratto outlines with clarity and rigor a vision of human subjectivity as a dynamic and incomplete process of emergence that  … Read More …

Feb 262013
 

Michael Kelly, A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012; 242 pages. ISBN: 978-0231152921.

Review by Julian Jason Haladyn, University of Toronto

In A Hunger for Aesthetics Michael Kelly continues his long-standing investigation of the philosophy of aesthetics, which includes, among other texts, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1998), a four-volume work  … Read More …

Feb 262013
 

Ugo Perone (ed.), Filosofia e spazio pubblico. Bologna: il Mulino, 2012; 290 pages. ISBN 978-88-15-23701-9.

Review by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College at Western University

Filosofia e spazio pubblico [Philosophy and Public Space] is a collection of essays written by philosophers invited to participate in a colloquium on the relation between public space and philosophy. Ugo Perone, the editor  … Read More …

Jan 062013
 

REVIEW ESSAY/ESSAI CRITIQUE

By the Numbers: Meillassoux as a Reader of Mallarmé

Quentin Meillassoux, The Number and the Siren: A Decipherment of Mallarmé’s Coup de Dés. Trans. Robin MacKay. Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2012; 298 pages. ISBN: 978-098321692-6.

By Thomas H. Ford, Australian National University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

If philosophy is the art of inventing concepts, Quentin Meillassoux’s first slim  … Read More …

Nov 282012
 

Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik, Molecular Revolution in Brazil. Trans. Karel Clapshow and Brian Holmes. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2008; 496 pages. ISBN: 978-1-58435-051-4.

Review by Matthew R. McLennan, University of Ottawa and Carleton University

Guattari and Rolnik’s 1986 collection of texts, interviews, and transcripts, recently available for the first time in English translation from Semiotext(e), presents a comprehensive look  … Read More …

Nov 052012
 

Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of Indebted Man. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2012; 199 pages. ISBN: 978-1584351153.

Review by Nikolay Karkov, Lebanon Valley College

Semiotext(e) has just published a wonderful short book by Maurizio Lazzarato, entitled The Making of Indebted Man. Lazzarato is a key figure in post-operaist Marxism, driven into exile in France after the state-sponsored demolition of Italian  … Read More …