Tag: book-review
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Philosophical Book Review: Chasing Homer: Good Luck, and Nothing Else: Odysseus’s Cave
This book stages a controlled experiment in narrative pressure and philological memory. László Krasznahorkai compresses a pursuit story into a sequence of conceptual modules—Velocity, Faces, Relating to sheltered places, and so on—whose cumulative claim is that survival, once reduced to method, becomes a cognitive discipline that interrogates its own premises. The distinctive contribution lies in…
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The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right
In The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Paul Gottfried analyses the ideological evolution of the American conservative movement in the post-World War II era, examining an often unacknowledged debt to Hegelian philosophy within the conservative thought of key intellectual figures. Gottfried’s exploration seeks to uncover how thinkers like Will Herberg,…
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Welt und Zeit—Disgusting Sexuality, Sex & Disgust, 20:35—23. February 2025
The intersection of sexuality is struck with the immediate affective realm of disgust, and one is invariably drawn into an ever-expanding contemplation that touches upon the most fundamental nature of being. The trajectory of this reflection, framed within the broader horizon often invoked by the name of World & Time, finds itself confronted by contradictions,…
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The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
In an era where chaos reigns and disasters unfold with alarming frequency, Naomi Klein’s seminal work, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, emerged as an unsettling exploration of how power is wielded amidst turmoil. Heralded by luminaries such as John le Carré, who described it as “impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary…
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Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner
Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner by Professor Dr. Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, is a monumental biography that reconfigures our understanding of Richard Wagner’s first wife, Minna Planer. Far from being the peripheral figure often portrayed in traditional Wagnerian scholarship, Minna was a pivotal influence in Wagner’s creative and personal life. This…
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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck, masterfully translated by Stewart Spencer, presents the analysis of one of music history’s most enigmatic and influential figures. This comprehensive biography transcends the conventional narrative, engaging the multifaceted persona of Richard Wagner—composer, conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist. Geck’s work doesn’t just recount Wagner’s life events…
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Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett
Angelica Nuzzo’s Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely is an audacious philosophical endeavor that stakes its ground on re-reading Hegel’s Logic as a “logic of transformation” and a “logic of action.” This is not a conventional explication of Hegel’s famously opaque work, nor is it content with philosophical abstraction. Instead, Nuzzo seeks to vivify Hegel’s thought by…
Simon Gros 