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Title: American Continental Philosophy: A Reader (Studies in Continental Thought) by Walter Brogan, James Risser ISBN: 0-253-21376-2 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fantastic book.
Comment: This is simply an exceptional and recommended work for graduate and undergraduate students alike. Given the scope and complexity of the texts involved, as well as predelineative agendas and hostility from other traditions, the writing is lucidly informative, succinct, and relevant most of all.
Paramount is the mention of the burgeoning identity of anglo-continental thinking indebted to the Husserl and Frege affinity, as well as the Heidegger and Wittgenstein affinity. Notably, Zalta, Ortiz-Hill, and Follesdall among others have written extensively about these associations between two traditions, dare I say analytic and continental, whose identities are being reformed today.
In light of this, this book forges ahead with identifying a growing and newly thriving continental philosophy that is deflationary realist (ala Dreyfus) and directed towards theories of reference, philosophies of mathematics and logic, and philosophy of mind. All of which are distinct within US academic activity of Villanova, Memphis, Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, and the lower tiers of say Northern Arizona University or East Stroudsburg University.
Concluding, this book is extremely provocative in the sense that it identifies an extremely contemporary scene of thinking that has gained much momemtum (see the new journal of "Mind" for example) and it has come to my attention that something of a full circle has undergone within the last generation of late twentieth-century thinking; with the death of Lewis many analytics and continentals meet on the same ground in non-perjorative metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology in an issue drivem, rather than ill genered sense. Perhaps now, after a century, we have come again to "philosophy" rather than notorious titles for philosophical geography.
Rating: 1
Summary: Vanity Press, Indiana
Comment: The first thing one notices about this book is that it flatters all of the members of its editorial board in public. This rudimentary breach of academic ethics will not be surprising to those long accustomed to the bad behavior of "la cosa nostra" in charge of the Indiana Univ. Press series "Studies in Continental Thought."
The premise for this book is that American Continental philosophy is no longer laboring in the shadows of Heidegger and his French disciples, but is now beginning to produce new original thought of its own. But with two or three refreshing exceptions in the collection, this is simply not the case. Most of the chapters show us the usual name-dropping and Euro-social climbing characteristic of the current "leading lights" in Continental thought.
As bad as most of the chapters are, even worse are the introductions to each chapter penned by the editors. Here, each of the authors they discuss (who are their personal friends, more often than not) receive overblown praise in deeply flawed and presumptuous prose. Particularly egregious is the shameful propaganda on behalf of John Sallis, who has yet to justify his overwhelming political pre-eminence with anything beyond a reasonably good book on Plato several decades ago.
The subtitle of this book could well be: The Big Lie. Assert that there is a lively intellectual ferment in American Continental philosophy, and a few undergraduates might believe it and spread the rumor among other impressionable people.
Speaking of undergraduates, Indiana apparently intended this book to serve as an anthology for undergraduate classrooms, which boggles the mind. Why waste the time of 18-22 year olds with tedious, name-dropping prose? If they're taking a class on contemporary philosophy, let them read Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, etc. That's more than enough material for a precious 15-week semester. Sure, graduate students will have to reference many of these authors for the usual career reasons, but to foist this gruel upon young undergraduates is about as ethical as teaching babies to smoke.
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Title: On Belief (Thinking in Action) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0415255325 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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