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Jeff Mitscherling, The Image of a Second Sun

dzshaw — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:34:43 +0000

Jeff Mitscherling, The Image of a Second Sun: Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, and the Technē of Mimēsis. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2009; 468 pages. ISBN: 978-1591024316.

Review by Aaron Landry, York University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

This book engages one of the perennial topics of Platonic scholarship—the presence (or absence) of poetry in the ideal city as constructed in the Republic … Read More …

Conference: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion

Iain Macdonald — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:19:03 +0000

Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
June 14-17, 2012
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada

An international conference exploring questions and issues concerning religion and secularism from the purview of major currents in modern and contemporary European thought and aesthetics.

Conference and Registration Website: http://vctr.blog.ryerson.ca/

Keynote Address:
John Caputo (Syracuse University)

Plenary Speakers:
Bettina Bergo (Université de Montréal)
Morny Joy

Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, Capitalist Sorcery

Marie-Eve Morin — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:09:46 +0000

Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; xxiv + 159 pages. ISBN: 978-0230237629.

Review by Nikolay Karkov, Lebanon Valley College, PA. Forthcoming in Symposium.

The last decade or so has seen an efflorescence of anti-capitalist critiques. After the relative lull of the 1990s, provoked by the collapse of real socialism and … Read More …

Conference: North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Iain Macdonald — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:40:13 +0000

North American Society for Early Phenomenology
2012 Inaugural Canadian Conference
May 25^th and 26^th, 2012
Madison Avenue Boutique Hotel & Meeting Complex
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Conference Announcement: MUNICH & GÖTTINGEN PHENOMENOLOGY

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP) invites all scholars working in the area of early phenomenology to submit abstracts on any topic relevant to … Read More …

Call for Contributions: Biblical Philosophy? Exploratory Essays

Iain Macdonald — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:09:22 +0000

Second Call for Papers
For a proposed volume: Biblical Philosophy? Exploratory Essays
Editors, Mark Cauchi and Avron Kulak

We invite essay submissions for a proposed volume entitled Biblical Philosophy? Exploratory Essays to be reviewed by Continuum Books. The purpose of the volume is to explore the relationship between the Bible and philosophy. According to the traditional story of the development … Read More …

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Marie-Eve Morin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:06:48 +0000

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010; xxi + 803 pages. ISBN 978-0307265562.

Review by Emily Anne Parker, Santa Clara University and Kristin Rodier, University of Alberta. Forthcoming in Symposium.

A new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s landmark feminist philosophical work of 1949, Le deuxième sexe, appeared … Read More …

Simon Morgan Wortham, The Derrida Dictionary

Marie-Eve Morin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000

Simon Morgan Wortham, The Derrida Dictionary. London: Continuum, 2010; 264 pages. ISBN: 978-1847065261.

Review by Steven Sych, McGill University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

There is, as Simon Wortham points out in his introduction to The Derrida Dictionary, a danger inherent in his project. The dictionary form is, after all, an attempt to present language in a systematic manner by … Read More …

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility

Marie-Eve Morin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:26:22 +0000

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010; 341 pages. ISBN: 978-0253221735.

Review by Yasemin Sari, University of Alberta. Forthcoming in Symposium.

Raffoul’s work is the culmination of a kind of questioning that poses as philosophy’s task the task of rethinking the ethicality of ethics itself. Formulated in this way, the work falls far from the … Read More …

Call for Papers: 19th-20th C. Austrian Thought and its Legacy

Iain Macdonald — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:27:28 +0000

Call for Papers

19^th-20^th C. Austrian Thought and its Legacy
Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington
November 1-3, 2012

We invite contributions for a conference on Austrian Thought at the turn of the 20^th Century. Philosophers of this period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire—led by Franz Brentano—advanced myriad areas of philosophy and innovative … Read More …

Miguel Abensour, Democracy Against the State

Marie-Eve Morin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:49:45 +0000

Miguel Abensour, Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment. Trans. Max Blechman and Martin Breaugh. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011; 149 pages. ISBN: 978-0745650104.

Review by Devin Zane Shaw, University of Ottawa. Forthcoming in Symposium.

It is taken for granted today that calling a political practice utopian is synonymous with saying that it is impossible. Miguel Abensour … Read More …