Reviews

Review – Badiou Is Not Afraid of The Dark (Mason Davis)

Badiou, Alain. Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color. Translated by Susan Spitzer. New Jersey: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 1509512071. Hardcover, paperback, e-book. 80 pages.  Claire Colebrook calls Alain Badiou’s newest book Black: The Brilliance Of A Non-Color, a “singular and remarkable book.” My initial reaction was similar, though I have always been impressed by Badiou’s eloquence and prose. […]

Reviews

Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)

Welborn, Larry L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture). New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780231171311. Hardcover, paperback, e-book. 154 pages. With the unprecedented amount of political upheaval throughout the west since the turn of the century, especially after the supposed […]

Philosophy Reviews

Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy

Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel.   What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer.  Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016.  ISBN: 1509501703.  Hardback, paperback, e-book, 168 pages. Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet’s transcripted dialogue, What Is To Be Done?, could not have come at a more […]