Symposium publishes 20-30 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 1200–2000 words in length. They should include no endnotes (internal citations only) but a list of references can be added at the end if necessary. Reviews accepted for publication are published immediately on our website and a list of recently published reviews is printed in each issue of Symposium.
All inquiries regarding book reviews, including submissions, should be addressed to: .
We are seeking reviewers for the following books. Persons interested in reviewing a book not on this list are invited to contact the book review editor by email at the above address. We also accept unsolicited reviews.
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Devin Zane Shaw
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| Author / Auteur | Title / Titre | Press / Éditeur | Year / Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adorno, Theodor W. | Notes to Literature (Combined Edition) | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Badiou, Alain | Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 | Columbia UP | 2018 |
| Beith, Don | The Birth of Sense: Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy | Ohio UP | 2018 |
| Bernet, Rudolf | Force, Drive, Desire: A Philosophy of Psychoanalysis | Northwestern UP | 2020 |
| Bonner, Kieran and Stanley Raffel (eds.) | Redefining the Situation: The Writings of Peter McHugh | McGill-Queen's UP | 2019 |
| Carlson, Liane | Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Cimino, Antonio | Enactment, Politics, and Truth: Pauline Themes in Agamben, Badiou, and Heidegger | Bloomsbury | 2018 |
| Dasgupta, Partha | Time and Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Derrida, Jacques | Before the Law | Minnesota UP | 2018 |
| Evans, Fred | Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Finlayson, James Gordon | The Habermas-Rawls Debate | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Forsey, Jane and Lars Aagaard-Mogenson (eds.) | On the Ugly: Aesthetic Exchanges | Cambridge Scholars | 2019 |
| Fritsch, Matthias | Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice | Stanford UP | 2018 |
| Gaon, Stella | The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique | Routledge | 2019 |
| Ghosh, Ranjan (ed) | Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Gourgouris, Stathis | Perils of the One | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Horton, Sarah et al. | Somatic Desire: Recovering Corporeality in Contemporary Thought | Lexington | 2019 |
| Kristeva, Julia | Passions of Our Time | Columbia UP | 2018 |
| Marder, Michael | Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| McAfee, Nöelle | Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| McCance, Dawne | The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort | Fordham UP | 2019 |
| McGowan, Todd | Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution | Columbia UP | 2019 |
| Meinong, Alexius | On Emotional Presentation | Northwestern UP | 2020 |
| Merleau-Ponty, Maurice | The Sensible World and the World of Expression: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953 | Northwestern UP | 2020 |
| Mitscherling, Jeff and Paul Fairfield | Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account | Lexington | 2019 |
| Morris, David | Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology | Northwestern UP | 2018 |
| Plessner, Helmuth | Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior | Northwestern UP | 2020 |
| Plessner, Helmuth | Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology | Fordham UP | 2019 |
| Plessner, Helmuth | Political Anthropology | Northwestern UP | 2018 |
| Preciado, Paul B. | Countersexual Manifesto | Columbia UP | 2018 |
| Robinson, Josh | Adorno's Poetics of Form | SUNY | 2018 |
| Senatore, Marco | Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida | SUNY | 2018 |
| von Hildebrand, Dietrich | Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality | Hildebrand Press | 2019 |
| von Hildebrand, Dietrich | Morality & Situation Ethics | Hildebrand Press | 2019 |
| Viriasova, Inna and Antonio Calcagno | Robert Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy | SUNY | 2018 |
| Weiss, Gail, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (eds) | 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology | Northwestern UP | 2020 |
| Wells, Adam Y. | The Manifest and the Revealed: A Phenomenology of Kenosis | SUNY | 2018 |