Book Reviews by Richard E. Palmer
Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy and Religion
Scholar in
MacMurray College
Book Reviews
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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