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Marc Crépon and Bernard Stiegler, De la démocratie participative

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:40:17 +0000

Marc Crépon and Bernard Stiegler, De la démocratie participative: Fondements et limites. Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2007; 118 pages. ISBN: 978-2755500332.

Review by Travis Holloway, SUNY Stony Brook/NYU. Forthcoming in Symposium.

This year’s presidential elections in France, Russia, the United States, Yemen and elsewhere will happen at a time when protests in these countries and around the … Read More …

Call for Papers: “Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe

Iain Macdonald — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:18:14 +0000

Call for Papers
“Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe

A call for papers for a special issue of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, forthcoming in Fall 2012, and guest-edited by Sean Moreland, Devin Zane Shaw, and Jonathan Murphy.

The editors invite original essays that address the influence of German Idealist and Romantic thought upon Edgar … Read More …

Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:42:54 +0000

Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009; 420 pages. ISBN: 978-0253220639.

Review by Anna Carastathis, California State University, Los Angeles.

For those familiar with McWhorter’s work, the publication of Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America was long awaited.1 I had encountered an early form of the argument McWhorter rehearses in this book … Read More …

Stefan Kristensen, Parole et Subjectivité

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:16:17 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in Français. … Read More …

CSCP 2012 News and Call for Papers

Iain Macdonald — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:07:57 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference from October 11-13, 2012, in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa.

Please see our Call for Papers. … Read More …

Call for Papers: Symposium Special Issue on Australasian Continental Philosophy

Iain Macdonald — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:11:47 +0000

Symposium
Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Australasian Continental Philosophy
Guest Editor: Marguerite La Caze, University of Queensland

The purpose of the issue is to showcase the vibrant and engaged work of Australasian Continental thinkers, highlighting special questions, issues, developments, specific scholarship and trends that arise in this context. Papers may be in any area … Read More …

Félix Guattari, Soft Subversions

Marie-Eve Morin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:36:54 +0000

Félix Guattari, Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977-1985 (2^nd ed.). Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009; 341 pages. ISBN: 978-1584350736.

Review by Maxwell Kennel, University of Waterloo. Forthcoming in Symposium.

The release of a second edition of Félix Guattari’s Soft Subversions might serve to indicate a rising interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst and philosopher. To confirm this indication … Read More …

Call for Papers: PhaenEx

Iain Macdonald — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:49 +0000

PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture

PhaenEx, the online journal for the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for our next Open Issue (Volume 8, No. 1, spring/summer 2013).

We seek papers related to the interests of our Society including phenomenology, psychoanalysis, existentialism, critical theory, feminist philosophy, hermeneutics, feminist … Read More …

Call for Abstracts: North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Iain Macdonald — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:09:06 +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

Call For Abstracts

MUNICH & GÖTTINGEN PHENOMENOLOGY

The North American Society for Early … Read More …

Rob Boddice (ed.), Anthropocentrism

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:09:23 +0000

Rob Boddice (ed.), Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Leiden: Brill, 2011; 348 pages. ISBN: 978-9004177948.

Review by Tracy Colony, European College of Liberal Arts. Forthcoming in Symposium.

One of the most important themes in recent continental philosophy has been the resurgence of the question of the human. Traditionally, what was proper to the human as such was articulated through the … Read More …