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Santiago Zabala, “Being at Large: Freedom in the Ago of Alternative Facts” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020)
Santiago Zabala
Being at Large
Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
McGill-Queens University Press, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology May 25, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In recent years, questions around the nature of ​truth ​and ​facts have reentered public debate, often in discussions around journalistic bias, and whether politically neutral reporting is possible, or even desirable. Many pundits have tried to place blame for the increasingly slippery and fickle nature of truth in reporting on... Read More
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, “Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy” (Routledge, 2020)
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette
Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy
Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 13, 2020 Raj Balkaran

This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu. In Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions (Routledge, 2020), Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette examines the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā of the Buddhist Bhāviveka, the Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya of the... Read More
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, “Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Brian Earp and Julian Savulescu
Love Drugs
The Chemical Future of Relationships
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 11, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for them to take oxytocin to help them renew their emotional bonds, or would this be an unethical evasion of the hard work that keeping... Read More
Adrian Johnston, “Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy ” (Northwestern UP, 2013)
Adrian Johnston
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy
Northwestern University Press, 2013

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Secularism May 11, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical questions in light of a post-God ontology. Entering into this discussion is Adrian Johnston, with his 3-volume ​Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism​, an attempt to develop a systematic and thoroughly atheistic... Read More
Dominik Finkelde, “Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Dominik Finkelde
Excessive Subjectivity
Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics
Columbia University Press, 2017

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology May 6, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order? This is a question that has puzzled philosophers for centuries, and it’s the question that animates Dominik Finkelde’s book ​Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundation of Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2017). The... Read More
Emily Thomas, “The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Emily Thomas
The Meaning of Travel
Philosophers Abroad
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

Travel has been a topic lurking in the background (at least) of a lot of philosophy. Socrates was keen to remind his jury as well as his interlocutor Phaedrus that he had spent nearly his entirely life within the city of Athens.  For another example, Descartes saw fit to take... Read More
Peter Adamson, “Classical Indian Philosophy” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Peter Adamson
Classical Indian Philosophy
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 29, 2020 Raj Balkaran

In Classical Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020), Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri survey both the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions. Their odyssey touches on the earliest extant Vedic literature, the Mahābhārata, the Bhagavad-Gīta, the rise of Buddhism and Jainism, the sūtra traditions encompassing logic, epistemology, the monism... Read More
Shay Welch, “The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Shay Welch
The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System
Dancing with Native American Epistemology
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network April 29, 2020 Alexus McLeod

In The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology (Palgrave Macmillian, 2019), Shay Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance is... Read More

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