Tag: books
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The Subversion of Morality: Reading Tang Wengming’s “Secret Subversion I: Mou Zongsan, Kant, and Early Confucianism.”
Works Reviewed. Tang Wenming Secret Subversion I: Mou Zongsan, Kant, and Early Confucianism. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Routledge, 2022. Mou Zongsan (牟宗三 12 June 1909 – 12 April 1995) was a Chinese philosopher and translator who sought both to synthesize Kantian philosophy with the Neo-Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions of China, but also to…
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Literature Strikes Back: A Reading of Cate I. Reilly’s “Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State.”
Works Reviewed. Cate I. Reilly Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State. Columbia University Press, 2024, 331 pages. “What does a scientific picture of the head show?” Or, again, what remains of the mind when the brain’s territory has been painstakingly and assiduously mapped; neuron by neuron, dendrite by dendrite? The map, Korzybski has…
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Birthquake: The Literary After-Shocks of the Great Kantō Earthquake in Arthur M. Mitchell’s “Disruptions of Daily Life.”
Works Reviewed: Arthur M. Mitchell Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 266 pages. The power of modernist fiction, contends Arthur M. Mitchell, lies in its ability to “make us aware of the discursive structures that undergird the imaginative relationship we have to our social world.” The…
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Looking Good: A Review of Yasuda’s Beauty Matters.
Anri Yasuda’s Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024 Of the three transcendentals of classical philosophy, which one has suffered, at the hands of modernity, as beauty has suffered? Immanuel Kant famously clipped the wings of the imagination, afraid that her fecundity should compromise the…
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Unanchored Reason: Gaston Bachelard and Surrealist Philosophy.
Republication of Review from The Chaleur Bay Review. This is one of my previous reviews, from an older iteration of the site, under the name The Chaleur Bay Review of Books. It was one of my favourites, and I thought it might be nice to reintroduce it to the new site. Works Reviewed. Kotowicz, Zbigniew. Gaston Bachelard:…
The Mourning Cloak 