CSCP-SCPC https://c-scp.org Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy / Société canadienne de philosophie continentale Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Julie Reshe, Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023; 144 pgs. ISBN: 978-3-031-31200-7 https://c-scp.org/2026/04/01/julie-reshe-negative-psychoanalysis-for-the-living-dead-philosophical-pessimism-and-the-death-drive-palgrave-macmillan-2023-144-pgs-isbn-978-3-031-31200-7 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:58:38 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=14049 Julie Reshe, Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023; 144 pgs. ISBN: 978-3-031-31200-7 

everet smith, Emory University

Julie Reshe’s Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (2023) offers an alternative to psychoanalytic parameters and practice. Traditional psychoanalysis, Reshe accuses, presents a twofold problem. First, as a practice  … Read More ...

]]> Titus Stahl, Immanent Critique https://c-scp.org/2026/01/06/titus-stahl-immanent-critique Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:08:52 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=14015 Titus Stahl, Immanent Critique, trans. with John-Baptiste Oduor. London: Rowan & Littlefield, 2021; 348 pages. ISBN: 9781786601797. 

Alexei Procyshyn, Queen’s University Belfast

Originally published in a lengthier German edition in 2013, this ambitious book from Titus Stahl aims to explain the possibility of “immanent critique” through a familiar two-step procedure. First, he delineates what he takes to be the  … Read More ...

]]> Symposium Vol. 29 No. 2 Now Online https://c-scp.org/2025/11/06/symposium-vol-29-no-2-now-online Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:22:57 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=14009 Symposium vol. 29, no. 2 (Fall 2025) is now online.

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]]> Banu Bargu, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal https://c-scp.org/2025/11/04/banu-bargu-disembodiment-corporeal-politics-of-radical-refusal Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:32:11 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13999 Banu Bargu, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, 504 pp. ISBN: 9780197608531

Reviewed by Iaan Reynolds, Utah Valley University

There are many things to praise about Banu Bargu’s latest book, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal. Like her earlier Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2014), this  … Read More ...

]]> Byung-Chul Han, The Spirit of Hope. Translated by Daniel Steuer. https://c-scp.org/2025/09/12/byung-chul-han-the-spirit-of-hope-translated-by-daniel-steuer Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:55:36 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13914 Byung-Chul Han, The Spirit of Hope. Translated by Daniel Steuer. New York: Polity, 2024, 111 pp. ISBN: 9781509565191

Reviewed by Tanner R. Layton, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University

For Joel Faflak.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love,  … Read More ...

]]> Byung-Chul Han, Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity. https://c-scp.org/2025/09/05/byung-chul-han-vita-contemplativa-in-praise-of-inactivity Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:15:03 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13883 Byung-Chul Han, Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025; 128pp. ISBN: 978-1509558018

Reviewed by Avah Solomon & Robin Barrios, University of Ottawa

In Vita Contemplativa (2022), a work of timely relevance to the frantic busyness and blind action that seem to dominate the status quo, Byung-Chul Han draws from a diverse range of philosophical and artistic  … Read More ...

]]> Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Roots of Moral Evil https://c-scp.org/2025/07/10/dietrich-von-hildebrand-the-roots-of-moral-evil Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:22:01 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13695 Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Roots of Moral Evil. Steubenville: Hildebrand Press, 2024; 224 pages. ISBN: 9781939773210.

Reviewed by Timothy B. Jaeger, Stony Brook University

Of the many diverse and intricate ideas developed in Dietrich von Hildebrand’s magnum opus, Ethics, one of the most mysterious and intriguing is his development of a theory of moral evil. Appearing near the  … Read More ...

]]> Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy https://c-scp.org/2025/05/28/simona-forti-totalitarianism-a-borderline-idea-in-political-philosophy Wed, 28 May 2025 13:49:34 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13607 Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy. Translated by Simone Ghelli Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, viii + 170 pp. ISBN: 9781503637375

Reviewed by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College at Western University

Simona Forti’s Totalitarianism is a timely book, not only because it speaks to the various shifting political events and trends we currently witness  … Read More ...

]]> CFP: Re-Enchanting the World: Spirituality, Ecology, Arts Oct. 15-17, 2025 Toronto Metropolitan U. https://c-scp.org/2025/05/15/cfp-re-enchanting-the-world-spirituality-ecology-arts-oct-15-17-2025-toronto-metropolitan-u Thu, 15 May 2025 15:43:14 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13602 Symposium Vol. 29 No. 1 Now Online https://c-scp.org/2025/05/13/symposium-vol-29-no-1-now-online Tue, 13 May 2025 20:59:47 +0000 https://c-scp.org/?p=13597 Symposium vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 2025) is now online.

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