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
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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 |
| Al-Shawi, Hakam H. | Reconstructing Subjects: A Philosophical Critique of Psychotherapy | Rodopi | 2011 |
| Arminjon, Mathieu | Les intentions du corps. Psychanalyse, biologie et sciences de l'esprit | Liber | 2010 |
| Arrien, Sophie-Jan and Sylvain Camilleri (dir.) | Le jeune Heidegger 1909-1926 | Vrin | 2010 |
| Badiou, Alain | Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II, trans. Alberto Toscano | Continuum | 2009 |
| Bignall, Simone | Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Bignall, Simone and Paul Patton (eds) | Deleuze and the Postcolonial | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| Bloechl, Jeffrey (ed.) | Levinas Studies: An Annual Review (vol. 6) | Duquesne UP | 2011 |
| Blumenberg, Hans | Care Crosses the River, trans. Paul Fleming | Stanford UP | 2010 |
| Camos, V. et al. (eds) | Homme et animal, la question des frontières | Quae | 2009 |
| Capobianco, Richard | Engaging Heidegger | U of Toronto Press | 2010 |
| Chardel, Pierre-Antoine et Gabriel Rockhill (ed.) | Technologies de contrôle dans la mondialisation: enjeux politiques, éthiques et esthétiques | Kimé | 2009 |
| Colebrook, Claire | Deleuze and the Meaning of Life | Continuum | 2010 |
| Cox, Gary | The Sartre Dictionary | Continuum | 2008 |
| Craig, Megan | Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology | Indiana UP | 2011 |
| Daigle, Christine | Jean-Paul Sartre | Routledge | 2010 |
| Dalton, Drew M. | Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire | Duquesne UP | 2009 |
| Davidson, Scott (ed.) | Ricoeur Across the Disciplines | Continuum | 2010 |
| Davis, Bret W., Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth | Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School | Indiana UP | 2011 |
| Deakins, John | Making Sense of Us: An Essay on human Meaning | Granville Island | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Dragomir, Alexandru | Cahiers du temps | Vrin | 2010 |
| Dragomir, Alexandru | Banalités métaphysiques | Vrin | 2008 |
| Düppe, Till | The Making of the Economy: A Phenomenology of Economic Science | Lexington Books | 2011 |
| Ehrmantraut, Michael | Heidegger's Philosophic Pedagogy | Continuum | 2010 |
| Ennis, Paul J. | Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews | Zero Books | 2010 |
| 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 |
| Fisher, Mark | Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? | Zero Books | 2009 |
| Forst, Rainer | The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice | Columbia UP | 2-11 |
| Furtak, Rick Anthony | Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: A Critical Guide | Cambridge UP | 2010 |
| Gaston, Sean | Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting | Continuum | 2009 |
| Goebel, Rolf J. (ed.) | A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin | Camden House | 2009 |
| Grondin, Jean | Hand-Georg Gadamer: Une biographie | Grasser | 2010 |
| Harman, Graham | Circus Philosophicus | Zero Books | 2010 |
| Harman, Graham | Quentin Meillasoux: Philosophy in the Making | Edinburgh UP | 2011 |
| Harvey, Robert | Witnesses: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility | Continuum | 2010 |
| Holland, Eugene W. | Nomad Citizenship: Free Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike | U of Minnesota Press | 2011 |
| Holland, E., D. Smith and C. Stivale (eds) | Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text | 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 |
| Joseph, F., J. Reynolds and A. Woodward (eds) | The Continuum Companion to Existentialism | Continuum | 2011 |
| Kellogg, Catherine | Law's Trace From Hegel to Derrida | Routledge | 2010 |
| Klapwijk, Jacob | Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical Theory and The Messianic Light | Wipf & Stock | 2010 |
| 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 |
| Kotsko, Adam | Awkwardness | Zero Books | 2010 |
| Labron, Tim | Wittgenstein and Theology | Continuum | 2009 |
| 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 |
| Lawn, Chris and Niall Keane | The Gadamer Dictionary | Continuum | 2011 |
| Llewelyn, John | Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida | Indiana UP | 2009 |
| Luchte, James (ed.) | Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise | Continuum | 2009 |
| Martin, Jean-Clet | Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, trans. C. V. Boundas and S. Dyrkton | Edinburgh | 2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nicholson, Graeme | Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology | U of Toronto Press | 2009 |
| Noudelmann, François | The Philosopher's Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano, trans. Brian J. Reilly | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Outhwaite, William | Habermas, A Critical Introduction | Stanford | 2010 |
| Power, Nina | One-Dimensional Woman | Zero Books | 2009 |
| Prado, C. G. | Coping with Choices to Die | Cambridge UP | 2011 |
| Rancière, Jacques | Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Richter, Gerhard | Arfterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Schües, C., D. A. Olkowski, and H. A. Fielding (eds) | Time in feminist Phenomenology | Indiana | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Sheil, Patrick | Starting with Kierkegaard | Continuum | 2011 |
| Shirley, Greg | Heidegger and Logic: The Place of Logos in Being and Time | 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 |
| Smith, Mick | Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World | U of Minnesota Press | 2011 |
| Spitzer, Anais N. | Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy | Continuum | 2011 |
| Tanke, Joseph | Jacques Rancière: An Introduction | Continuum | 2011 |
| Tejedor, Chon | Staring with Wittgenstein | Continuum | 2011 |
| Thibodeau, Martin | Hegel et la tragédie grecque | Presses Universitaires de Rennes | 2011 |
| Thibault, Bruno | J.M.G. Le Clézio et la métaphore exotique | Rodopi | 2009 |
| Thomas-Fogiel, Isabelle | The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-Reference in Contemporary Thought | Columbia UP | 2011 |
| Thomassen, Lasse | Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed | Continuum | 2010 |
| Tonner, Philip | Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being | Continuum | 2010 |
| Vial, Fernand | The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature | Rodopi | 2009 |
| van der Heiden, Gert-Jan | The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement | Duquesne UP | 2010 |
| Watkin, Christopher | Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillasoux | Edinburgh UP | 2011 |
| Wicks, Robert L. | Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation | Continuum | 2011 |