Book Reviews

TBD* features reviews of recent scholarly work as part of its special issues and an ongoing process. If you are interested in contributing a review to the journal, please contact the editors at tbdgraduatejournal@acadiau.ca. A list of recommended books for review can be found below.

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The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory by Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell
The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory by Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell

The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory, Oxford University Press, 2018

Review by Guido Calderini, MA student in Philosophy at University of Ottawa

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The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes
The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes

The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes, Stanford University Press 2019
Review by Robert Pantalone, M.A Social and Political Thought at Acadia University

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We Are All Cannibals - And Other Essays
We Are All Cannibals - And Other Essays

We Are All Cannibals - And Other Essays - University of Columbia Press @016
Review by Adam Foster, Ph.D. Candidate in Politics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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To Our Friends
To Our Friends

The Invisible Committee - Semiotext(e) 2015
Review by Hope Campbell, M.A. Politics at Acadia University

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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe
Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe

Costas Douzinas - Polity 2013
Review by Cameron Brown, M.A. Social and Political Thought at Acadia University

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Book Review Wish List

Recently Published books we would love to have you review:

  • Arruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Frazer. 2019. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto.

  • Zizek, Slavoj. 2019. The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto.

  • Rosen, Matt. 2019. Speculative Annihilation: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction.

  • Rosenstock, Eliot. 2019. Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy.

  • McKenna, Tony. 2019. Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives.

  • Hannon, Michael. 2019. What’s the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology.

  • Boltanski, Luc and Eve Chiapello. 2018. The New Spirit of Capitalism.

  • Mouffe, Chantal. 2018. For a Left Populism.

  • Bertho, Alain. 2018. The Age of Violence: The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia.

  • Davis, Mike. 2018. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory.

  • Zizek, Slavoj. 2018. Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity.

  • Mann, Geoff and Joel Wainwright. 2018. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future.

  • Greenfield, Adam. 2018. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life.

  • Cuboniks, Laboria. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.

  • Gerver, Mollie. 2018. The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation

  • Larson, Rob. 2018. Capitalism vs. Freedom.

  • Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt. 2018. After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties

  • Payne, Mark. 2018. Hontology: Depresive Anthropology and the Shame of Life

  • Harvey, David. 2018. The Limits of Capital.

  • Laclau, Ernesto. 2018. On Populist Reason.

  • Aptar, Emily. 2018. Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic

  • DeGooyer, Stephanie, Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, and Samuel Moyn. 2018. The Right to Have Rights.

  • Dean, Jodi. 2018. Crowds and Party.

  • And any other books published within in last 24 months.