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August 3, 2009

A Fistful of Euros reviews Gianni Vattimo's "Autobiography"

A Fistful of Euros, a prominent blog focusing on European politics and culture recently reviewed Gianni Vattimo’s Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography calling it “a delicious mix of philosophy, history, politics, ‘gayness’ and the personal experiences and thoughts of...

June 18, 2009

Stephen Phillips Discusses His New Book "Yoga, Karma, Rebirth"

In the following video, Stephen Phillips discusses his new book Yoga, Karma, Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy. For more on the book, you can also read an interview with Stephen Phillips or read an excerpt from the book.

June 12, 2009

Interview with Hans-Georg Moeller, Author of The Moral Fool

June 9, 2009

Candidate and Blogger Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo, noted European intellectual and author of the recently published Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, was a victorious candidate in last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections. Moreover, his party, the leftist Italy of Values Party, was considered a winner...

May 22, 2009

“Professor, the Red Brigades have telephoned. They say they want to kill you.”

In his recently published, Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Gianni Vattimo provides a series of vignettes looking back at his life as a philosopher, social activist, politician, and gay rights advocate. Needless to say, one of the more dramatic...

May 22, 2009

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on Philosophy and Animal Life

In a recent review for the online journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Gerald Bruns considers how two recent philosophy books explore novelist J. M. Coetzee’s philosophical views on animals. One of the books discussed by Bruns is Philosophy and Animal...

May 20, 2009

Interview and Author Event with Stephen Phillips, Author of Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth

15.8 million people in America now practice yoga according to a recent survey done by Yoga Journal. Most of us are familiar with the mats, the apparel, and basic asanas (such as Downward Facing Dog or the Corpse Pose) but...

May 1, 2009

Mark Taylor in the New York Times and His Forthcoming Book

Mark C. Taylor’s recent New York Times Op-ed, End the University as We Know It continues to be one of the most popular stories on the NYT Web site and has been widely discussed on the Internet. (The University of...

March 9, 2009

Video Part 2 of Alan Wallace talking about Mind in the Balance

A while ago we posted here part 1 of an interview with Alan Wallace, author of the recently published book, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Today, we are posting part 2 of the video series....

January 12, 2009

Post-Convention Wrap-Ups — Philosophy

There seems to have been less coverage of the American Philosophical Association‘s meeting than some of the other academic conventions but below are a few dispatches from the meeting. Like the other conventions concerns about a shrinking job market were...

December 3, 2008

A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are — Robert Hullot-Kentor in The Brooklyn Rail

The title to Robert Hullot Kentor’s essay in the Brooklyn Rail comes from an unfinished 1941 essay by Theodor Adorno. Hullot-Kentor, who is the author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno, argues that the “New Type...

November 25, 2008

Philosophy in Turbulent Times Reviewed in the London Review of Books

Elif Batuman offers a very interesting and spirited review of Elisabeth Roudinesco’s Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida in the London Review of Books. In the review Batuman considers Roudinesco’s unique take on each thinker...