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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.
Huis Clos (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre
210419: read somewhere that to understand ‘la nausee’ (nausea) you have to read his philosophy text l’etre et le neante’ (being and...
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...
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...
The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader (book review) Merleau-Ponty
Galen A. Johnson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael B. Smith (Translator) 241017: this is a great if familiar selection of three important...
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...
The Visible and the Invisible (book review) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
210318 second reading, two years later, review: reading again, there is actually more or at least 'different' difficulty. at least for me...
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...
The Transcendence of the Ego (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre
An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness Forrest Williams (Translator), Robert Kirkpatrick (Translator) 151018: fun evidence of Satre’s...
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...
Sartre (book review) Gary Cox
A Guide for the Perplexed(Guides for the Perplexed) .??? 2000s: this is where i started in philosophy, no excuses, but either he is very...
Essays in Existentialism (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre
Wade Baskin(Editor) 140511: this could be a 3.5, as i enjoyed the start essays but less the applied criticism of the arts. the beginning...
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...
Philosophy as Passion (book review) Karen Vintges
The Thinking of Simone De Beauvoir Anne Lavelle (Translator) 190318: i have read several on and by de beauvoir, with the intent of...
Sartre's Ethics of Engagement (book review) T. Storm Heter
210112: this is a later later addition: just read Morris on Sartre, which deliberately does not use terms and jargon from the man, one of...
Basic Writings (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre,
Stephen Priest (Editor) 230613: i found this selection excellent, each commentary by priest very helpful. i have never studied sartre but...
Being and Nothingness (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre
Hazel E. Barnes (translator), Mary Warnock (contributor), Richard Eyre (contributor) 201122: i had thought to read this again before...
Nothingness and Emptiness (book review) Steven W. Laycock
A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre 070418/090915/181112: this is a much much later addition: another 3 years......
