Books Received
Symposium publishes 20-40 book reviews annually, in all areas of Continental philosophy and some history of philosophy. Current and future reviews will be also be available on this site. Book reviews should be 800–1500 words in length and include no endnotes (internal citations only). Reviews accepted for publication usually appear in the journal within six months. We welcome unsolicited reviews.
All inquiries regarding book reviews, including submissions, should be addressed to:
Marie-Eve Morin
Book Review Editor, Symposium
Department of Philosophy
2-40 Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E7
Canada
E-mail: reviews@c-scp.org
We are seeking reviewers for the following books. If accepted, reviews will be published on the website and a selection will appear in Symposium. Persons interested in reviewing a book not on this list are invited to contact the book review editor at the above address or by email.
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| Author / Auteur | Title / Titre | Press / Éditeur | Year / Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed, Arif | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Reader's Guide | Continuum | 2010 |
| Altorf, Marije | Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining | Continuum | 2008 |
| Angus, Ian | Identity and Justice | U of Toronto Press | 2008 |
| Badiou, Alain | Conditions | Continuum | 2008 |
| Badiou, Alain | Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II, trans. Alberto Toscano | Continuum | 2009 |
| Baggini, Julian and Jeremy Stangroom (eds) | What More Philosophers Think | Continuum | 2007 |
| Bignall, Simone | Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Bignall, Simone and Paul Patton (eds) | Deleuze and the Postcolonial | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Boundas, Constantin (ed.) | Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies | Columbia UP | 2007 |
| Brooks, Thom and Fabian Freyenhagen (eds) | The Legacy of John Rawls | Continuum | 2007 |
| Bruno, Paul W. | Kant's Concept of Genius: Its Origin and Function in the Third Critique | Continuum | 2010 |
| Buchanan, Ian | Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus : A Reader's Guide | Continuum | 2008 |
| Buchanan, Ian and Patricia MacCormack (eds) | Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema | Continuum | 2008 |
| Calcagno, Antonio | Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time | Continuum | 2007 |
| Camos, V. et al. (eds) | Homme et animal, la question des frontières | Quae | 2009 |
| Capobianco, Richard | Engaging Heidegger | U of Toronto Press | 2010 |
| Carlisle, Clare | Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: A Reader's Guide | Continuum | 2010 |
| Cave, Peter | This Sentence is False: An introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes | Continuum | 2009 |
| Cerbone, David R. | Heidegger: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2008 |
| Chanter, Tina | The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference | Indiana UP | 2008 |
| Chardel, Pierre-Antoine et Gabriel Rockhill (ed.) | Technologies de contrôle dans la mondialisation : enjeux politiques, éthiques et esthétiques | Kimé | 2009 |
| Cohen, Richard A. | Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion | Duquesne UP | 2010 |
| Colebrook, Claire | Deleuze and the Meaning of Life | Continuum | 2010 |
| Cox, Gary | How to Be an Existentialist or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses | Continuum | 2009 |
| Cox, Gary | The Sartre Dictionary | Continuum | 2008 |
| Dalton, Drew M. | Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire | Duquesne UP | 2009 |
| Davidson, Scott (ed.) | Ricoeur Across the Disciplines | Continuum | 2010 |
| de Beistegui, Miguel | Immanence: Deleuze and Philosophy | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Depoortere, Frederiek | Badiou and Theology | Continuum | 2009 |
| de Saint Cheron, Michaël | Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, 1983-1994, trans. Gary D. Mole | Duquesne UP | 2010 |
| Dillard, Peter S. | Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology: A Neo-Scholastic Critique | Continuum | 2008 |
| Dromm, Keith | Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature | Continuum | 2008 |
| Ehrmantraut, Michael | Heidegger's Philosophic Pedagogy | Continuum | 2010 |
| Evans, Fred | The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity | Columbia UP | 2008 |
| Fagenblat, Michael | A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism | Stanford | 2010 |
| Faulkner, Joanne | Dead Letters to Nietzsche or, The Necromatic art of Reading Philosophy | Ohio UP | 2010 |
| Feist, R., C. Beauvais and R. Shukla (eds) | Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity | U of Ottawa Press | 2010 |
| Feltham, Oliver | Alain Badiou: Live Theory | Continuum | 2008 |
| Fillion, Réal | Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx | U of Ottawa Press | 2008 |
| Gaston, Sean | Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting | Continuum | 2009 |
| Gaston, Sean | Starting with Derrida | Continuum | 2007 |
| Goebel, Rolf J. (ed.) | A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin | Camden House | 2009 |
| Guarino, Thomas G. | Vattimo and Theology | Continuum | 2009 |
| Guattari, Félix | Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977-1985 | Semiotext(e) | 2009 |
| Guyer, Paul | Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Reader's Guide | Continuum | 2007 |
| Hamilton, Andy | Aesthetics and Music | Continuum | 2007 |
| Hasse, Pierre-Marie | Le Cercle sur l'abîme : éléments d'une théorie de la non-contradiction | Thibaud de La Hosseraye | 2008 |
| Hasse, Ullrich | Starting with Nietzsche | Continuum | 2008 |
| Holland, E., D. Smith and C. Stivale (eds) | Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text | Continuum | 2009 |
| Hughes, Joe | Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation | Continuum | 2008 |
| Hölderlin, Friedrich | The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning Play, trans. David Farrell Krell | SUNY | 2008 |
| Irigaray, Luce | Conversations | Continuum | 2009 |
| Irwin, Ruth (ed.) | Climate Change and Philosophy: Transformational Possibilities | Continuum | 2010 |
| Jaran, François | La Métaphysique du Dasein: Heidegger et la possibilité de la métaphysique (1927-1930) | Zeta Books | 2010 |
| Joplin, David A. | Talking Cures and Placebo Effects | Oxford UP | 2008 |
| Kearney, Richard | Anatheism: Returning to God After God | Columbia UP | 2010 |
| Kellogg, Catherine | Law's Trace From Hegel to Derrida | Routledge | 2010 |
| Kirkconnell, W. Glenn | Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion | Continuum | 2008 |
| Klimis, S., P. Caumières et L. Van Eynde (dir.) | Castoriadis et les Grecs | Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis | 2010 |
| Koopman, Colin | Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty | Columbia UP | 2009 |
| Labron, Tim | Wittgenstein and Theology | Continuum | 2009 |
| Lambert, Gregg | Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari | Continuum | 2008 |
| Lampert, Jay and Jason Robinson (ed.) | Philosophical Apprenticeship: Contemporary Continental Philosophy in Canada | U of Ottawa Press | 2009 |
| Langan, Thomas | Human Being: A Philosophical Anthropology, ed. A. Calcagno | U of Missouri Press | 2009 |
| Lavigne, Jean-François (ed.) | Les méditations cartésiennes de Husserl : Études et commentaires | Vrin | 2008 |
| Limnatis, Nectarios G. (ed.) | The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic | Continuum | 2010 |
| Llewelyn, John | Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida | Indiana | 2009 |
| Luchte, James | Heidegger's Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality | Continuum | 2008 |
| Luchte, James (ed.) | Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise | Continuum | 2009 |
| Marrati, Paola | Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy | John Hopkins UP | 2008 |
| Marshall, George J. | A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception | Marquette UP | 2008 |
| Martin, Jean-Clet | Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, trans. C. V. Boundas and S. Dyrkton | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Mensch, James R. | Embodiments: From the Body to the Body Politics | Northwestern UP | 2009 |
| Miller, Adam | Badiou, Marion and St Paul: Immanent Grace | Continuum | 2008 |
| Mitscherling, J. | The Image of a Second Sun: Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, and the Techne of Mimesis | Humanity Books | 2009 |
| Mitscherling, J. | Aesthetic Genesis: The Origin of consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature | UP of America | 2010 |
| Mooney, Edward F. | Lost Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy From Thoreau to Cavell | Continuum | 2009 |
| Mugerauer, Robert | Heidegger and Homecoming: The Leitmotif in the Later Writings | U of Toronto Press | 2008 |
| Mullarkey, John and Beth Lord (eds) | The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy | Continuum | 2009 |
| Nancy, Jean-Luc | Corpus, trans. Richard A. Rand | Fordham | 2008 |
| Nicholson, Graeme | Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology | U of Toronto Press | 2009 |
| Outhwaite, William | Habermas, A Critical Introduction | Stanford | 2010 |
| O'Sullivan, Simon and Stephen Zepke (eds) | Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New | Continuum | 2008 |
| Protevi, John | Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic | U of Minnesota Press | 2009 |
| Raffoul, François | The Origins of Responsibility | Indiana UP | 2010 |
| Ravaisson, Félix | Of Habit | Continuum | 2008 |
| Rockhill, Gabriel | Logique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques | Hermann | 2010 |
| Rogozinski, Jacob | The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis, trans. Robert Vallier | Stanford UP | 2010 |
| Russon, John | Bearing Witness to Epiphany: Persons, Things, and the Nature of Erotic Life | Indiana UP | 2009 |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | The Last Chance: Roads to Freedom IV | Continuum | 2009 |
| Secomb, Linnell | Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture | Indiana UP | 2007 |
| Seed, John | Marx: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2010 |
| Selcer, Daniel | Philosophy and The Book: Early Modern Figures of Material Inscription | Continuum | 2010 |
| Shakespeare, Steven | Derrida and Theology | Continuum | 2009 |
| Sharpe, Matthew and Joanne Faulkner | Understanding Psychoanalysis | Acumen | 2008 |
| Shirley, Greg | Heidegger and Logic: The Place of Logos in Being and Time<\em> | Continuum | 2010 |
| Simpson, Christopher B. | Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo | Indiana UP | 2009 |
| Singh, R. Raj | Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2010 |
| Sini, Carlo | Ethics of Writing, trans. Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder | SUNY Press | 2009 |
| Skempton, Simon | Alienation after Derrida | Continuum | 2010 |
| Staufer, Jill and Bettina Bergo (eds) | Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God" | Columbia | 2009 |
| Suprenant, Céline | Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2008 |
| Thicault, Bruno | J.M.G. Le Clézio et la métaphore exotique | Rodopi | 2009 |
| Thomassen, Lasse | Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2010 |
| Thomson, Alex | Deconstruction and Democracy | Continuum | 2007 |
| Tonner, Philip | Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being | Continuum | 2010 |
| Truc, Gerome | Assumer l'humanité : Hannah Arendt: la responsabilité face à la pluralité | Université de Bruxelles | 2008 |
| van der Heiden, Gert-Jan | The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement | Duquesne UP | 2010 |
| Vella, John A. | Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2008 |
| Welz, Claudia and Karl Verstrynge (eds) | Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and Its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas | Turnshare | 2008 |
| Wortham, Simon Morgan | Derrida: Writing Events | Continuum | 2008 |
| Wortham, Simon Morgan | The Derrida Dictionary | Continuum | 2010 |
| Zabala, Santiago | The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics | Columbia | 2009 |
