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: 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.
Click on headings to sort the list or filter the list by search terms.
Author / Auteur | Title / Titre | Press / Éditeur | Year / Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agamben et al. | Democracy in What State? | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Al-Shawi, Hakam H. | Reconstructing Subjects: A Philosophical Critique of Psychotherapy | Rodopi | 2011 |
| Badiou, Alain | The Incident at Antioch: A Tragedy in Three Acts, trans. S. Spitzer | Columbia UP | 2013 |
| Badiou, Alain | Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters, trans. S. Spritzer | Columbia UP | 2013 |
| Barthes, Roland | How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, trans. Kate Briggs | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Biswas Mellamphy, Nandita | The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism | Palgrave Macmillan | 2011 |
| Bloechl, Jeffrey (ed.) | Levinas Studies: An Annual Review (vol. 6) | Duquesne UP | 2011 |
| Bowden, Sean | The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense | Edinburgh UP | 2011 |
| Bowden, Sean and Simon Duffy (eds) | Badiou and Philosophy | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Braidotti, Rosi | Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Brand, Roy | LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Craig, Megan | Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology | Indiana UP | 2011 |
| Crockett, Clayton | Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event | Columbia UP | 2013 |
| Davidson, Scott and Diane Perpich (eds) | Totality and Infinity at 50 | Duquesne UP | 2012 |
| Davis, Bret W., Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth | Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School | Indiana UP | 2011 |
| De Boever et al. (ed.) | Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| De Fontenay, Élisabeth | Without Offending Animals: A critique of Animal Rights, trans. Will Bishop | U of Minnesota Press | 2012 |
| Deakins, John | Making Sense of Us: An Essay on human Meaning | Granville Island | 2011 |
| Di Cesare, Donatella Ester | Utopia of Understanding | SUNY Press | 2012 |
| DiCenso, James J. | Kant, Religion, and Politics | Cambridge UP | 2011 |
| Duffy, Maria | Paul Ricoeur's Pedagogy of Pardon: A Narrative Theory of Memory and Forgetting | Continuum | 2012 |
| Düppe, Till | The Making of the Economy: A Phenomenology of Economic Science | Lexington Books | 2011 |
| Flaxman, Gregory | Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy | Minnesota UP | 2012 |
| Forst, Rainer | The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Gratton, Peter | The State of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fictions of Modernity | SUNY | 2012 |
| Grondin, Jean | Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Grondin, Jean | Paul Ricœur | PUF (Que sais-je?) | 2013 |
| Gschwandtner, Christina M. | Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy | Fordham UP | 2013 |
| Harman, Graham | Quentin Meillasoux: Philosophy in the Making | Edinburgh UP | 2011 |
| Heidegger, Martin | Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which is and Basic Principles of Thinking, trans. Andrew Mitchell | Indiana UP | 2012 |
| Holland, Eugene W. | Nomad Citizenship: Free Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike | U of Minnesota Press | 2011 |
| Joseph, F., J. Reynolds and A. Woodward (eds) | The Continuum Companion to Existentialism | Continuum | 2011 |
| Kelly, Michael | A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Koopman, Colin | Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity | Indiana UP | 2013 |
| Lambert, Gregg | In Search of A New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism | U of Minnesota Press | 2012 |
| Lawlor, Leonard | Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy | Indiana UP | 2012 |
| Lawn, Chris and Niall Keane | The Gadamer Dictionary | Continuum | 2011 |
| Lecercle, Jean-Jacques | Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Lemke, Thomas | Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique | Paradigm | 2012 |
| Lundy, Craig | History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Marion, Jean-Luc | Givenness & Hermeneutics, trans. J.-P. Lafouge | Marquette UP | 2013 |
| Marion, Jean-Luc | In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine | Stanford UP | 2012 |
| Martin-Jones, David | Deleuze and World Cinemas | Continuum | 2011 |
| Mattéi, Jean-François | Le Procès de l'Europe: Grandeur et misère de la culture européenne | U of Ottawa Press | 2011 |
| McCumber, John | On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis | Stanford UP | 2013 |
| Minister, Stephen | De-Facing the Other: Reason, Ethics, and Politics after Difference | Marquette | 2012 |
| Mullarkey, John and Anthony Paul Smith | Laruelle and Non-Philosophy | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Nichols, Joshua Ben David | The End(s) of Community | Wilfrid Laurier UP | 2013 |
| Noudelmann, François | The Philosopher's Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano, trans. Brian J. Reilly | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Noys, Benjamin | The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Continental Philosophy | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Olkowski, Dorothea E. | Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn | Indiana UP | 2012 |
| Prado, C. G. | Coping with Choices to Die | Cambridge UP | 2011 |
| Ramey, Joshua | The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal | Duke UP | 2012 |
| Rancière, Jacques | Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Rensmann, Lars and Samir Gandesha (eds.) | Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations | Stanford UP | 2012 |
| Richter, Gerhard | Arfterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Ross, Christine | The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art | Continuum | 2012 |
| Sallis, John | Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental | Indiana UP | 2012 |
| Sanos, Sandrine | The Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France | Stanford UP | 2012 |
| Schües, C., D. A. Olkowski, and H. A. Fielding (eds) | Time in feminist Phenomenology | Indiana | 2011 |
| Severson, Eric | Levinas's Philosophy of Time: Gift, Responsibility, Diachrony, Hope | Duquesne UP | 2013 |
| Sheil, Patrick | Starting with Kierkegaard | Continuum | 2011 |
| Shirley, Greg | Heidegger and Logic: The Place of Logos in Being and Time | Continuum | 2010 |
| Sloterdijk, Peter | The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice, trans. Karen Margolis | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Sloterdijk, Peter | Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation, trans. Mario Wenning | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Smith, Mick | Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World | U of Minnesota Press | 2011 |
| Somers-Hall, Henry | Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide | Edinburgh UP | 2013 |
| Spitzer, Anais N. | Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy | Continuum | 2011 |
| Still, Judith | Derrida and Hospitality: Theory and Practice | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Svirsky, Marcelo and Simone Bignall (eds.) | Agamben and Colonialism | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Tanke Joseph and Colin McQuillan (eds.) | The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics | Bloomsbury | 2012 |
| Tanke, Joseph | Jacques Rancière: An Introduction | Continuum | 2011 |
| Taylor, Mark C. | Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Taylor, Mark C. | Rewriting the real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo | Columbia UP | 2013 |
| Thibodeau, Martin | Hegel et la tragédie grecque | Presses Universitaires de Rennes | 2011 |
| Thomas-Fogiel, Isabelle | The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-Reference in Contemporary Thought | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Tunstall, Dwayne A. | Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism | Fordham UP | 2013 |
| Tynan, Aidan | Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticisms and the Politics of Symptoms | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |
| Vogel, Matthias | Media of Reason: A Theory of Rationality, trans. D. Arnold | Columbia UP | 2012 |
| Webb, David | Foucault's Archeology: Science and Transformation | Edinburgh UP | 2013 |
| Weber, Elisabeth (ed.) | Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Death | Fordham UP | 2013 |
| Wicks, Robert L. | Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation | Continuum | 2012 |
| Widder, Nathan | Political Theory after Deleuze | Continuum | 2012 |
| Zourabichvili, François | Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Even (together with The Vocabulary of Deleuze), trans. K. Aarons | Edinburgh UP | 2012 |