Book Reviews by Richard E. Palmer
Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy and Religion
Scholar in
MacMurray
College
Book Reviews
A. Forthcoming
B. Published
Kaplan, David M. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory.
Malpas, Jeff, Ulrich Arnswald, and Jens Kertscher
(eds.), Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
The MIT Press, 2002. xiv+363pp. Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002.06.01.
Tallis, Raymond. A conversation with Martin Heidegger. Palgrave, 2002. 226pp. Choice, October 2002, item 40-0847.
Winchester, James J. Aesthetics across the color line: Why Nietasche (sometimes) can’t sing the blues. Rowman and Littlefield.
145pp. Choice, October 2002, item 40-0834.
De Bolla, Peter. Art
Matters. Harvard,
2001. 157pp. Choice, June 2002, item 39-5740.
Losurdo, Domenico. Heidegger
and the ideology of war: community, death, and the West, translated by Marella Morris and Jon Morris. Humanities Books, 2001. 256pp. Choice,
March 2002, #39-3910.
Rauch, Angelika. The
hieroglyph of tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2001. Dist. by the Association of
University Presses. 245pp. Choice, January 2002, item 39-2737.
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, ed. Berys
Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes. Routledge, 2001. 580pp. Choice, September 2001, item 39-0242.
Schaeffer, Jean-Marie.
Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy
of Art from Kant to Heidegger, translated by Steven Rendall. Princetion, 2000. Choice, May 2001, item 38-4976.
Torres, Louis, and Michelle Marder Kamhi.
What Art Is: The Aesthetic Theory
of Ayn Rand.
Open Court Press, 2000.
523pp. Choice, April 2001, item 38-4404.
Glazebrook, Trish. Heidegger’s
Philosophy of Science.
Hatab, Lawrence J. Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian
Contributions to Moral Philosophy. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 223pp. Choice, February 2001, item 38-3262.
Wood, Robert E. Placing
Aesthetics: Reflections on the philosophic tradition.
Barber, Michael. Ethical Hermeneutics: Rationality in
Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation.
Irigaray, Luce. The
Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger. Translated
from the French by Mary Beth Mader.
McCumber, John. Metaphysics and
Oppression: Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999. Choice, April, 2000,
item 37-4434.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. The Beginning of Philosophy.
Trans. Rodney Coltman. New
York: Continuum, 1999. Choice, September, 1999. item
37-0235
Sparshott, Francis. The Future of
Aesthetics: The 1996 Ryle Lectures. Toronto: U.
of Toronto Press, 1998. 173p. Choice, May, 1999, no.
36-5029.
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and
Technique. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Choice,
early 1999.
Dastur, Françoise. Heidegger
and the Question of Time. Trans. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew. Humanities Press, 1998.
Choice. Submitted
June, 1998.
Risser, James. Hermeneutics and the
Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's
Philosophical Hermeneutics. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. Review for International
Studies in Philosophy. (1998).
Fodor, James. Christian Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur and the Refiguring of Theology. Oxford: The
Clarendon Press, 1995. Forthcoming in International
Studies in Philosophy. Submitted mid-August 1996.
Perhaps it has appeared!
Lyas, Colin. Aesthetics.
Montreal and Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queens University Press,
1997. Choice, February 1998, page n.a.
Risser, James. Hermeneutics and the
Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's
Philosophical Hermeneutics. SUNY Series in Continental Philosophy.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 291pp. Review of Metaphysics, (March 1998):
715-717.
The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Ed. Lewis E.
Hahn. Chicago: Open Court, 1997. Choice, June, 1997.
Lang, Berel. Heidegger's
Silence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Choice,
May, 1997. 96-16193 CIP.
Heidegger, Martin. Aristotle’s Metaphysics q 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of
Force. Translated by Walter Brogan and Peter Warnek.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Choice, December, 1996.
Grondin, Jean. Introduction
to Philosophical Hermeneutics. Trans. Joel Weinsheimer. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1995. Choice. Submitted Jan. 1996.
No data on this due to my being in Germany 1995-1996.
Levine, Peter. Nietzsche and the Modern
Crisis of the Humanities. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1995. Choice. Submitted
May, 1995. No data on this, due to my being in Germany for 1995-1996.
Wachterhauser, Brice, ed. Hermeneutics and
Truth. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994. Choice,
December 94. #294.
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. What is Philosophy? Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Braham Burchell.
New York: Columbia U. Press, 1994. Choice, December 1994. #289.
Stambaugh, Joan. The
Other Nietzsche. SUNY Press, 1994. Choice
July/August 1994. #272.
Heidegger, Martin. Basic Concepts,
trans. Gary E. Aylesworth. Bloomington:
Indiana U. Press, 1993. Choice, June 1994. #256.
Haar, Michel. Heidegger and the
Essence of Man. Albany: State University of New York, 1993. Choice,
March, 1994. #258.
Lawlor, Leonard. Imagination and
Chance: The Difference between the Thought of Ricoeur
and Derrida. SUNY Press, 1992. Choice, Oct.
1993. #313.
Habermas, Jürgen. Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays.
Translated by William Mark Hohengarten.
MIT, 1992. Choice July/August 1993. #249.
Simm, Stuart. Beyond Aesthetics:
Confrontations with Poststructuralism and
Postmodernism.
Stack, George J. Nietzsche and Emerson:
An Elective Affinity. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992. Choice
in April 93. #238
Vattimo, Gianni. The
Transparent Society. Trans. David Webb.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Choice, Feb. 1993. #285.
Ormiston, Gayle L. and Alan D. Schrift, Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From
Nietzsche to Nancy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. Review of Metaphysics,
1991, pp. 649-651.
Weinsheimer, Joel. Philosophical
Hermeneutics and Literary Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1991. Southern Journal of Philosophy,
Ormiston, Gayle L. and Alan D. Schrift, The Hermeneutic
Tradition. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. Choice,
sometime in 1990.
Rosen, Stanley. Hermeneutics as
Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Choice,
May, 1988.
Parkes, Graham, ed., Heidegger
and Asian Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Choice, April, 1988.
Taylor, Mark C. Deconstruction in Context. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1986. International Journal for Philosophy of
Religion, 23 (1988): 48-50.
Derrida, Jacques. The Truth in Painting.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Choice, February, 1988.
Scott, Charles E. The Language of
Difference. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International,
1987. Choice, December, 1987.
Schürmann, Reiner. Heidegger
on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy. Choice, June, 1987.
Fynsk, Christopher. Heidegger: Thought
and Historicity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. 246 pp. Choice,
April, 1987.
Weinsheimer, Joel. Gadamer's
Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1985. Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1987):
135-38.
Simmel, Georg. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Cambridge: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1986. 186 pp. Choice, November 1986.
Schrag, Calvin. Communicative
Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity. Blooming-ton: Indiana
University Press, 1986. 219 pp. Review appeared in Choice, ca. June
1986.
Halliburton, David. Poetic Thinking: An Approach to
Heidegger. Review appeared in Philosophy and Literature, 7 (Spring
1983): 126-27.
Bleicher, Josef. Contemporary
Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy, and Critique. One review
appeared in Style, 1982?, pp. 486-88, and another
much longer review appeared under the title, "How Comprehensive and
Contemporary is Bleicher’s Contemporary
Hermeneutics?" in the Phenomenology and Social Science Newsletter,
10.3 (1984): 5-10.
Johnson, Barbara. The Critical Difference: Essays in
Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading. Review appeared in Philosophy and
Literature, 5 (Fall 1981): 244-45.
Thiselton, Anthony. The
Two Horizons. Review appeared in Review of Metaphysics 35
(September 1981): 172-74.
Ihde, Don. Listening and Voice.
Review appeared under the title, "The Claim of Sound," Human
Studies, 1 (1978): 347-55.
Ricoeur, Paul. Interpretation
Theory. Review appeared in Philosophy and Literature, 2
(Spring 1978): 135-36.
Graff, Gerald. Poetic Statement and
Critical Dogma. Review appeared in Archiv,
211 (July 1974): 83-86.
Leibfried, Erwin. Kritische
Wissenschaft vom Text.
Review appeared in Archiv, 210 (December
1973): 346-48.
Fuhrmann, Manfred, ed. Terror und Spiel: Probleme der Mythenrezeption
[another lengthy volume of the "Poetik und Hermeneutik" series]. Review appeared in Archiv, 210 (December 1973): 338-42.
Halfmann, Ulrich. Der amerikanische
"New Criticism. Review
appeared in Archiv für
die neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 209 (August 1972): 172-73.
Immanente Ästhetik and Die nicht mehr schönen Künste
[two long volumes (543 and 735 pages, respectively) in the "Poetik und Hermeneutik"
series, published by Fink Verlag]. Review appeared in Criticism,
13 (Winter 1971), 95-102.
Hirsch, E. D., Jr. Validity in Interpretation. Review
appeared in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 36 (1968):
243-46.
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