Volume 11, Issue 1&2

Contents

ARTICLES

Matthew T. Powell
Kafka’s Angel: The Distance of God in a Post-Traditional World
Carolyn M. Tilghman
The Flesh Made Word: Luce Irigaray’s Rendering of the Sensible Transcendental
Bert Olivier
The Subversion of Plato’s Quasi-Phenomenology and Mytho-Poetics in the Symposium
Owen Anderson
The Search for the Absolute: Analytic Philosophy as an Insufficient Response to Idealism
J.M. Fritzman
Geist in Mumbai: Hegel with Rushdie
Stephen D. Barnes
Between Chaos and Cosmos: Ernesto Grassi, William Faulkner, and the Compulsion to Speak
Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
What’s the ‘Matter’  with Materialism? Walter Benjamin and the New Janitocracy
Susan Baker
A Duel with Fernando de Rojas: Picasso’s Celestina Prints
Robert Scott Stewart & Michael Manson
Growing Up Through the Ages: Autonomy and Socialization in Tom Jones, Great Expectations, and I Am Charlotte Simmons
Philip Tonner
The Return of the Relative: Hamilton, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and French Phenomenology
Richard White
Bataille on Lascaux and the Origins of Art
Ivy Cooper
Being Situated in Recent Art: From the “Extended Situation” to “Relational Aesthetics”
Tanja Staehler
Rough Cut: Phenomenological Reflections on Pina Bausch’s Choreography
Geoffrey Roche
The Enigma of the Will: Sade’s Psychology of Evil

CREATIVE WRITING

Cristian Aliaga, translated by Ben Bollig
Seven poems
Betsy Sholl
Three poems
Kristina Marie Darling
Seven poems
Richard Hoffman
Cloudy, Chance
Ouyang Yu, translated by Huang Dan and Ouyang Yu
Eight poems
Mickey Hager
Neither Here Nor There
Sidney Goldfarb
Five poems
Mercedes Lawry
Three Poems
Emma Sheanshang
The Academy
Richard Hoffman
Shoes
Robert Gibbons
Prose poems

BOOK REVIEWS

Reviewer: Mark J. Fratoni
The Event of Kierkegaard’s Life
Review of Kierkegaard’s Instant: On Beginnings by David J. Kanga
Reviewer: J.M. White
The Self-Dawning Play of Primordial Wisdom
Review of Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual by Anne Carolyn Klein & Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Reviewer: Brent Dean Robbins
Psychiatry’s Collusion with Big Pharma in the Invention of Childhood Bipolar Disorder                                                                                                                                Review of Bipolar Children: Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights and Research; Edited by Sharna Olfman