Gordon Hull on the relation of Foucault and Heidegger

Here. 

A good piece on mortality and the anthropocene

In the NYT. Also, an important correction below the essay on a factoid that appears in too many articles to count:

An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the origin of the word “anthropocene.” The term was not coined in 2002 by Paul Crutzen; it has been in use since the 1980s, and was introduced into scientific discussion by Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000.

via Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene – NYTimes.com.

A Special volume on Jean-Luc Nancy in diacritics

Here.

Sebastian Purcell on Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists: Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Here is his summary:

In sum, the appearance of Michel’s Ricoeur et ses contemporains in English translation is a welcome event. While I wish Michel had done a bit more to address the lingering suspicion aboutRicoeur’s “conservative” style, the slim volume is crammed full of argumentative “bite” in defense of its two central claims. Because it has been written in clear and plain prose, it has much to offer anyone interested in contemporary post-structuralism, from the novice to the professional. It offers a great deal to consider regarding the fundamental issues of philosophy on meaning, identity, ethics and justice, even (perhaps especially) for those who are unlikely to persuaded by its central contentions.

via Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists: Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame.

A French Philosophy issues of Philosophy Now

With introductory essays on Kristeva and others: Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas.

Tom Sparrow’s Latest at Open Humanities Press

Here.

Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism.

The promise of sensation has certainly not been lost on the phenomenologists who have sought to ‘rehabilitate’ the concept. In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology. He begins to assemble a speculative aesthetics that is at once a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the ‘lived’ body. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits into/fails to fit into its aesthetic environment and what must be done to increase the body’s power to act and exist.

In the Meantime reviewed | Society and space

In the Meantime reviewed | Society and space.

Wo “Geschick” waltet, darf keine Schuld sein – Nachrichten Print – DIE WELT – Literatur – DIE WELT

Wo “Geschick” waltet, darf keine Schuld sein – Nachrichten Print – DIE WELT – Literatur – DIE WELT.

Is Phenomenology Philosophically Unproductive? | Daily Nous

There’s a discussion at Daily Nous, with links to where this has been a question. The emphasis is on how phenomenology has been epistemologically or ontologically productive, but it’s of course been politically important–recall Sartre’s ’50 writings, Fanon’s work, up to current work by Alia Al-Saji and many others.

Simon Glendinning writes connecting Husserl, the history of liberalism, and neoliberalism

Here.