Symposium publishes 15-20 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. 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.
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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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| Author / Auteur | Title / Titre | Press / Éditeur | Year / Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adkins, Brent | Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide | Edinburgh UP | 2015 |
| Angermuller, Johannes | Why There Is No Postructuralism in France | Bloomsbury | 2015 |
| Badiou, Alain and Barbara Cassin | There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan | Columbia UP | 2017 |
| Badiou, Alain and Nicolas Truong | In Praise of Theatre | Polity | 2015 |
| Balibar, Étienne | Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy, trans G. M. Goshgarian | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Cixous, Hélène | Death Shall Be Dethroned: Los, A Chapter, A Journal | Polity | 2016 |
| Enns, Dianne | Love in the Dark: Philosophy by Another Name | Columbia UP | 2016 |
| Enns, Diane and Antonio Calcagno | Thinking about Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy | Penn State | 2015 |
| Gratton, Peter and Paul J. Ennis (eds) | The Meillassoux Dictionary | Edinburgh UP | 2015 |
| Keller, Catherine | Cloud of the impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Lundy, Craig and Daniela Voss | At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy | Edinburgh UP | 2015 |
| Lynch, Richard A. | Foucault's Critical Ethics | Fordham UP | 2016 |
| McGowan, Todd | Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets | Columbia UP | 2016 |
| Moati, Raoul | Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity | Fordham UP | 2016 |
| Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani | Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben | Bloomsbury | 2015 |
| Nancy, Jean-Luc | The Disavowed Community | Fordham UP | 2016 |
| Onfray, Michel | A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Phillips, John W.P. | Derrida Now: Current Perspectives in Derrida Studies | Polity | 2016 |
| Raschke, Carl A. | Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Schuster, Aaron | The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis | MIT Press | 2016 |
| Stauffer, Jill | Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Valdés, Mario J. | Cultural Hermeneutics: Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur | U of Toronto Press | 2016 |
| Vattimo, Gianni | Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy | Columbia UP | 2016 |
| Vernon, Jim and Antonio Calcagno | Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity | Lexington | 2015 |
| Williams, James | A Process Philosophy of Signs | Edinburgh UP | 2016 |
| Wills, David | Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life | University of Minnesota Press | 2016 |
| Winnubst, Shannon | Way Too Coll: Selling Out Race and Ethics | Columbia UP | 2015 |
| Wirth, Jason | Commiserating with Devastated Things | Fordham UP | 2016 |
| Zuidervaart, Lambert | Religion, Truth, and Social Reformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy | McGill-Queen's UP | 2016 |