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MICHAEL KAMAKANA
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We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. MichaelKamakana serves as a vessel to project my passions, and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
The American Evasion of Philosophy (book review) Cornel West
A Genealogy of Pragmatism 011015: this is exactly what it says, though the evasion is not so much of philosophy but of a type West calls...
After Buddhism (book review) Stephen Batchelor
Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age 180916: this is a very interesting take on buddhism. at the beginning the author describes in his...
Merleau-Ponty (book review) Ted Toadvine (Editor), Toadvine
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (volume II) 290813: this is Volume 2: as a usual collection there is usually some very good,...
Merleau-Ponty (book review) Ted Toadvine (Editor)
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (volume I) basic [book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings|203362] 290813: this is Volume...
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (book review) Richard M. Rorty
070813: fascinating meta-philosophy critique, about entire tendencies in thought towards metaphysician- here a bad thing- and the...
The Retrieval of the Beautiful (book review) Galen A. Johnson
Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics 070218: i read this over two days, very long flight then morning here. this interrogates one...
Imagining Bodies (book review) James B. Steeves
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination 271011: either i have read alot of m-p and his ideas have seeped unconsciously into very depths...
Subjectivity and Selfhood (book review) Dan Zahavi
Investigating the First-Person Perspective 100617 first review: this is sort of 'phenomenology for analytic philosophers'. as such it...
A Philosophy of Sport (book review) Steven Connor
270614: this is a book unlike the previous 'soccer and philosophy', in which sport demonstrates philosophical ideas, this is philosophy...
The Phenomenological Mind (book review) Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi
140619 much later addition (five years): just revisiting philosophy texts i have given five to over the years, or rather the reviews than...
Surfing with Sartre (book review) Aaron James
An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning 240718: i have never learned to surf or indeed to board of any kind. when we visited the...
Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (book review) Leonard Lawlor
101014: this is a later later addition. just reread the first chapter on bergson, and enjoyed it again, but more moved to read on him or...
The New Heidegger (book review) Miguel de Beistegui
131016: another great book on heidegger is a great book even if i do not want to read it all. but i have to. so this work is fascinating...
What is Called Thinking? (book review) Martin Heidegger,
J. Glenn Gray(Translator/Introduction) 010815: this is a later later addition: think i should try to answer the title question with the...
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (book review) Martin Heidegger
William Lovitt(Translator) 231212: why, after all this time, after struggling to follow... do i give this four? mainly because i like to...
Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (book review) Bret W. Davis,
(Key Concepts) 300111: i have been reading this concurrently with [book:Wittgenstein: Key Concepts|7000786]. i understand that w is a big...
Heidegger (book review) John Richardson
(The Routledge Philosophers) 150512: this, like heidegger's thought, is of two parts: being and time, then everything after the 'turn'....
Heidegger and Unconcealment (book review) Mark A. Wrathall
Truth, Language, and History 290411: my brain hurts- in a good way. reading this, i can imagine why he would be such an inspiring...
The Heidegger Reader (book review) Günter Figal,
Jerome Veith (Translator) 131118 this is a much much later addition (5 years): has it really been so long since read? guess so. but his...
