The American Evasion of Philosophy (book review) Cornel West
A Genealogy of Pragmatism 011015: this is exactly what it says, though the evasion is not so much of philosophy but of a type West calls...
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A Genealogy of Pragmatism 011015: this is exactly what it says, though the evasion is not so much of philosophy but of a type West calls...
210419: read somewhere that to understand ‘la nausee’ (nausea) you have to read his philosophy text l’etre et le neante’ (being and...
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (volume I) basic [book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings|203362] 290813: this is Volume...
Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics 070218: i read this over two days, very long flight then morning here. this interrogates one...
Galen A. Johnson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael B. Smith (Translator) 241017: this is a great if familiar selection of three important...
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination 271011: either i have read alot of m-p and his ideas have seeped unconsciously into very depths...
Investigating the First-Person Perspective 100617 first review: this is sort of 'phenomenology for analytic philosophers'. as such it...
210318 second reading, two years later, review: reading again, there is actually more or at least 'different' difficulty. at least for me...
270614: this is a book unlike the previous 'soccer and philosophy', in which sport demonstrates philosophical ideas, this is philosophy...
140619 much later addition (five years): just revisiting philosophy texts i have given five to over the years, or rather the reviews than...
An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness Forrest Williams (Translator), Robert Kirkpatrick (Translator) 151018: fun evidence of Satre’s...
An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning 240718: i have never learned to surf or indeed to board of any kind. when we visited the...
A Guide for the Perplexed(Guides for the Perplexed) .??? 2000s: this is where i started in philosophy, no excuses, but either he is very...
Wade Baskin(Editor) 140511: this could be a 3.5, as i enjoyed the start essays but less the applied criticism of the arts. the beginning...
101014: this is a later later addition. just reread the first chapter on bergson, and enjoyed it again, but more moved to read on him or...
The Thinking of Simone De Beauvoir Anne Lavelle (Translator) 190318: i have read several on and by de beauvoir, with the intent of...
210112: this is a later later addition: just read Morris on Sartre, which deliberately does not use terms and jargon from the man, one of...
Stephen Priest (Editor) 230613: i found this selection excellent, each commentary by priest very helpful. i have never studied sartre but...
Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor) 201122: i had thought to read this again before...
A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre 070418/090915/181112: this is a much much later addition: another 3 years......