Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait
Rise of Modern Philosophy By Denys Turner Yale University Press, 300 pages, $28.00 This is not your normal biography; very little of it is actually biographical about Thomas Aquinas since very little is known about his life. Instead, this is a book about...Read more“The historian asks the question ‘Why?'”
The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenologia Del Relajo
Don’t Take Life Too Seriously By Carlos Alberto Sanchez SUNY Press, $80.00, 227 pages The idea of being serious, and the idea of disrupting it in some way, goes back many years, to the time of the post-colonial world as Mexico’s people struggled to...Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler
The Western Thought of Beauvoir Edited by Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson SUNY Press, $80.00, 248 pages Simone de Beauvoir was on the major mid 20th century philosophers. Her work became the rallying cry of modern-day feminists. While she...Read moreAbove All, Know Thyself