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 book, Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason, is positioned squarely in the debate surrounding transcendental arguments in analytic philosophy. Rather than definitively determining the nature and scope of transcendental arguments, … Read More …
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Emmanuel Levinas: His Life and Legacy, by Salomon Malka. Translated by Michael Kigel and Sonja M. Embree with a Foreword by Philippe Nemo. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006; 330 pages.
Review by Cathy Maloney, York University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009).
It may surprise a reader familiar with the philosophy of the face to know that Levinas was … Read More …
Briefings on Existence: A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology, by Alain Badiou. Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Norman Madarasz. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006; 181 pages.
Review by Brent Vizeau, University of Alberta. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009).
With the passing of the massively influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou has risen to the rank of “current … Read More …
Nietzsche’s Ethical Theory: Mind, Self and Responsibility, by Craig Dove. New York: Continuum, 2008; 162 pages.
Review by James Czank. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009).
Nietzsche, according to Dove’s argument and thesis, has been misinterpreted. He is neither the Über-critic of morality, as he is typically portrayed, nor is he a nihilist. The Übermensch, philosophising with a hammer, … Read More …
Schelling’s Dialogical Freedom Essay: Provocative Philosophy Then and Now, by Bernard Freydberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008; 144 pages.
Review by Jeremy Proulx, McMaster University. Published in Symposium 13:2 (2009).
The latest instalment in the ongoing Schelling renaissance in Continental philosophy, Bernard Freydberg’s Schelling’s Dialogical Freedom Essay, provides a fresh reading of Schelling’s notoriously difficult masterpiece. What … Read More …
An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and its Problematic Nature, by Greg Kennedy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007; 218 pages. ISBN: 978-0791469941.
Review by Patrick Gamsby, Laurentian University. Published in Symposium 14:1 (2010).
As a sort of preliminary remark, Greg Kennedy begins his book by describing it as “something of an odd fish.” (ix) Kennedy intimates that … Read More …