Books for review

Books Not Yet Assigned a Reviewer

Christa Davies Acampora, Contesting Nietzsche (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Roberto Alejandro, Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)

Philippe Artières et al. (ed.), Archives de l'infamie (Paris: Les prairies ordinaires, 2009)

Philippe Artières & Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, D'après Foucault. Gestes, luttes et programmes (Paris: Les prairies ordinaires, 2007)

Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Pierre Lascoumes, Pascal Michon, Luca Paltrinieri, Ariane Revel, Judith Revel & Jean-Claude Zancarini (ed.), Regards critiques: Surveiller et punir de Michel Foucault (Paris: IMEC, 2010)

Jean-François Bert, Michel Foucault, regards croisés sur le corps. Histoire, ethnologie, sociologie (Strasbourg: Les Cahiers du Portique, 2007)

Jean-François Bert, Introduction à Michel Foucault (Paris: Editions la Découverte, 2011)

Michael Blain, The Sociology of Terrorism: Studies in Power, Subjection, and Victimage Ritual (Boca Raton, FL: Universal Publishers, 2009)

Érik Bordeleau, Foucault anonymat (Montréal, QC: Le Quartanier, 2012)

Jean-Claude Bourdin et al. (ed.), Michel Foucault. Savoirs, domination et sujet (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008)

Pierre-André Boutang (ed.), Gilles Deleuze: From A To Z (on 3 CDs) with Claire Parnet, translated by Charles J. Stivale (Cambridge, MA: Semiotext(e) distributed by the MIT Press, 2011)

Sean Bowden, The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Renata Brandimarte et al. (eds.), Léxico di Biopolitica (Roma: Manifestolibri, 2006) French translation: Renata Brandimarte & al. (eds.), Lexique de biopolitique (Toulouse: Éditions Érès, 2009)

Peter Brown, Through The Eye of A Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)

Anne Brunon-Ernst, Utilitarian Biopolitics: Bentham, Foucault and Modern Power (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012)

Scott M. Campbell, The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012)

Philippe Chevallier & Tim Greacen (eds.), Folie et justice. Relire Foucault (Toulouse: Éditions Érès, 2009)

Marco Cicchini & Michel Porret (eds.), Les sphères du pénal avec Michel Foucault (Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes, 2007)

Daniel O. Dahlstrom, The Heidegger Dictionary (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

Paul Raimond Daniels, Nietzsche and the Birth of Tragedy (Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing Ltd, 2013)

Bret W. Davis (ed.), Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing Ltd, 2009)

James Davies, Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry (Berkeley, CA: Pegasus books, 2013)

James Davies, The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent (New York, NY: Routledge, 2011)

Olivier Dekens, Michel Foucault (Paris: Éditions Armand Colin, 2011)

Fons Elder, Philosophers: Debates and Dialogues. A four part series (New York: Icarus Films, 2013)

Brad Evans & Julian Reid, Resilient Life (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2014)

Oliver Feltham, Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2013)

Réal Fillion, Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012)

Michel Foucault, Speech Begins after Death. In Conversation with Claude Bonnefoy, edited by Philippe Artières, translated by Robert Bononno (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

Michel Foucault, Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l'aveu en justice. Cours de Louvain, 1981. Édition établie par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt (Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2012)

Michel Foucault, Le Gouvernement des vivants. Cours au Collège de France 1979-1980 (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2012)

Michel Foucault, Lectures on the Will to Know, Lectures at the Collège de France 1970-71, edited by Arnold I. Davidson (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Michel Foucault: Freedom and Knowledge, a hitherto unpublished interview, commented and edited by Fons Elders (The Netherlands: Elders special production, 2013)

Rick Anthony Furtak et al (ed.), Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012)

William J. Gavin, William James in Focus: Willing to Believe (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013)

Clifford Geertz, Life among the Anthros and other Essays, edited by Fred Inglis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)

Frédéric Gros, Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert et Judith Revel (eds.) Foucault. Cahier de l'Herne (Paris: Éditions de l'Herne, 2011)

Ullrich Haase, Starting with Nietzsche (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009)

Bernard Harcourt, Illusion and Order (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), ISBN: 978-0674015906 )

Bernard Harcourt (ed.), Discipline, Security and Beyond: Rethinking Michel Foucault's 1978 & 1979 Collège de France Lectures (Carceral Notebooks Volume 4, 2008)

Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)

Lawrence J. Hatab, Nietzsche’s 'On the Genealogy of Morality': An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Jennifer Michael Hecht, Stay: A History of Suicide and Philosophies Against It (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013)

Daniel Heller-Roazen, The Fifth Hammer: Pythagorus and the Disharmony of the World (Boston: MIT Press, 2011)

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers (New York: Zone Books, 2013).

Eric Heinze, The Concept of Injustice (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012)

Marie Hélène Huet, The Culture of Disaster (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Eugene W. Holland, Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

Joe Hughes, Philosophy After Deleuze (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012)

Casper Bruun Jensen and Kjetil Rödje (ed.), Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology (New York: Berghah books, 2011)

Douglas Burnham & Martin Jesinghausen, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010)

Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith (ed.), Deleuze and Ethics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Kristien Justaert, Theology After Deleuze (New York: Continuum, 2012))

Philip J. Kain, Nietzsche and The Horror of Existence (Maryland: Lexington Books, 2009)

Eleanor Kaufman, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)

Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault's History of Sexuality: Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)

Audrey Kiéfer & David Risse, La Biopolitique Outre-Atlantique après Foucault (Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 2012)

Béchir Koudhaï (dir.), Michel Foucault à Kairouan (Kairouan: Tunisie, 2007)

Lawrence D. Kritizman, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault, Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique (Paris: Fayard, 2012)

Christina Bieber Lake, Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood (Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013)

François Laruelle, Philosophy  and Non-Philosophy (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

François Laruelle, Dictionary of Non-Philosophy (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

Leonard Lawlor, Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003)

Leonard Lawlor, Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Prsss, 2011).

Stéphane Legrand, Les Normes chez Foucault (Paris: Puf, 2007)

Vanessa Lemm & Miguel Vatter (eds.), The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014)

Mathieu Lindon, Ce qu'aimer veut dire (Paris: P.O.L., 2011)

Alan Malachowski, The New Pragmatism (Acumen, 2010)

Patrick Maniglier & Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma (Montrouge: Bayard, 2011)

Ottavio Marzocca, Il governo dell'ethos: La produzione politica dell'agire economico (Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2011)

Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman (ed.), Beckett and Phenomenology (New York: Continuum, 2009)

Simon May (ed.), Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Kyle McGee & Laurent de Sutter (ed.), Deleuze and Law (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Megan Mustain, Overcoming Cynicism: William James and the Metaphysics of Engagement (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014)

Jeffrey T. Nealon, Post-Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time  Capitalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012)

Mary Nichols, Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflection On Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Greek Music Drama, translated by Paul Bishop (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2013)

Jacob Nilsson & Sven-Olov Wallenstein (ed.), Foucault, Biopolitics and Governmentality (Stockholm: Södertörn Philosophical Studies, 2013)

Adi Ophir,The Order of Evils: Towards an Ontology of Morality (Cambridge: Zone Books, 2005)

Hervé Oulc'hen (direction), Usages de Foucault (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France)

George Pattison, Heidegger On Death: A Critical Theological Essay (England, Ashgate, 2014)

José Luis Moreno Pestaña, Foucault la gauche et la politique (Paris: Éditions Textuel, 2011)

Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas Wittgenstein (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009)

Sverre Raffnsoe, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer, Morten Sørensen Thaning, Foucault: Studienhandbuch (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011)

Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

Judith Revel, Foucault. Une pensée du discontinu (Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2010)

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and his Ideas (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011)

Naima Riahi, Michel Foucault. Subjectivité, Pouvoir, Èthique (Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 2011)

Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (New York: Colombia University Press, 2013)

Elisabeth Roundinesco, Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)

Philipp Sarasin, Darwin und Foucault (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2009)

Anne Sauvagnargues, Deleuze and Art (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)

Andrew Neville Sharpe, Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law (New York, NY: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009)

Barry J. Scherr, Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature: Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)

Mary Shoemaker, Genealogy, From Nietzsche to Foucault: Tracing the History of the Present (Vdm Verlag Dr Müller, 2008)

Alexis Shotwell, Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit understanding (University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2011)

Zachary Simpson, Life As Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of the Self (New York: Lexington Books, 2013)

R. Raj Singh, Heidegger, World and Death (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013)

Peter Sloterdijk, Tempérament philosophique. De Platon à Michel Foucault (Paris: Maren Sell)

William O. Stephens, Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Continuum, 2012)

Riccardo Stacchezzin, Accounting e potere. Il contributo interpretativo del governmentality framework (Milano: F. Angeli, 2012)

Paul Taborsky, The Logic of Cultures: Threee Structures of Philosophical Thought (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010)

Jean Terrel, Politiques de Foucault (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2011)

Yunus Tuncel, Agon in Nietzsche (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2013)

Grant Vetter The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2012)

Christopher Warne, Arguing with Socrates: An Introduction to Plato's Shorter Dialogues (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

James Williams, Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Kathryn White, Beckett and Decay (New York: Continuum, 2009)

Julian Young, A Philosophical Biography: Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Thanos Zartaloudis, Giorgio Agamben - Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism (New York, NY: Routledge, 2010)

Stephen Zepke & Simon O’Sullivan (ed.), Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

If you are interested in reviewing one of the above books, please contact for English-language publications Book Reviews Editor Alan Rosenberg at foucnietz@nyc.rr.com and for non-English language publications contact Reviews Editor Marius Gudmand-Hoyer at mgh.lpf@cbs.dk. Book reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words.

 

Books Assigned for Review


Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves, new paperback edition (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.) Nietzsche and Political Thought (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013)

Philippe Artières et al (ed.), Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1961-2011 (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2011)

Ph. Artières, J.-F. Bert, Un succès philosophique: L'« Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique » de Michel Foucault (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2011)

Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or, The Lucidity Pact (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013).

Lee Braver, The Groundless Ground: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (Cambridge: MIT, 2012)

Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt (eds.) Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Trans. Stephen W. Sawyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014) 

Simon Choat, Marx Through Post-Structuralism (New York: Continuum, 2010)

Maude Clark and David Dudrick, The Soul of Nietzsche:Beyond Good and Evil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Antonelle Cutro, Technique et vie: Biopolitique et philosophie du bios dans la pensée de Michel Foucault (Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 2011)

Mitchell Dean, The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentally, and Biopolitics (Los Angeles: Sage, 2014)

Torben Bech Dyrberg, Foucault On the Politics of Parrhesia (New York: Palgrave, 2014)

Nadine Ehlers, Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012)

Michel Foucault, Manet and the Object of Painting (London: Tate Publishing, 2010)

David Galston, Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology (Montreal: McGill-Queens' University Press, 2011)

Ben Golder (ed.), Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012)

Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010)

Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (London & New York: Continuum, 2000)

Martin Heidegger, Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking, Trans. Andrew J. Mitchell (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

Horst Hutter and Eli Friedland (eds.) Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Teaching: For Individuals and Culture (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014)

Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds), The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon(Cambridge: CUP, 2014)

Brian Lightbody, Philosophical Genealogy I An epistemological reconstruction of Nietzsche and Foucault's Genealogical Method (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2010)

Craig Lundy, History and Becoming: Deleuze's Philosophy of Creativity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy's Perpetual War (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013)

Nicholas D. More, Nietzsche last Laugh: Ecce Homo as Satire (New York: Cambridge U. Press, 2014)

Tom Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Antonio Negri, Time for Revolution (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)

Cynthia R. Nielsen, Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Keith Ansell Pearson and Christa Davis Acampora, Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2011)

John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences (Minnesota: Minnesota University Press, 2013)

Tom Roach, Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement (New York: SUNY Press, 2012)

Stephanie Rutherford, Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Diogo Sardinha, Ordre et temps dans la philosophie de Foucault (Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 2011)

Robin Small, Time an Becoming in Nietzsche’s Thought (New York: Continuum, 2010)

Lauri Siisiäinen, Foucault and the Politics of Hearing (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012)

Marcela Tovar-Restrepo, Castoriadis, Foucault and Autonomy: New Approaches to Subjectivity, Society, and Social Change (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014)

David Webb, Foucault's Archaeology: Science and Transformation (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Suzanne Verderber, The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Nathan Widder, Political Theory after Deleuze (New York: Continuum Press, 2012)

Edith Wyschogrod, Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy’s Others (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2006)

Luka Zevnik, Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research: The Birth of Modern Happiness (Switzerland: Springer, 2014)



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