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Philosophy, history and more

From Political Affairs, more on Richard Rorty. Friends and other philosophers talk about Rorty, from a longer film called "American Philosopher" by Phillip McReynolds. From The New Individualist, a review of Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian and On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt; a review of Why Truth Matters by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom; and an interview with Stephen Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.

A review of A Priori Knowledge: Toward a Phenomenological Explanation by Tommaso Piazza. An excerpt from Kant and Idealism by Tom Rockmore. A review of Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 by Alasdair MacIntyre. A review of Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World by Jeff Malpas. A review of Levinas et l'exception du soi by Rodolphe Calin. 

From The Liberal, a review of The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek; and a review of Political Ideas in the Romantic Age by Isaiah Berlin. An excerpt from Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. A review of Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske. A review of The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War by David Livingstone Smith. A review of Utopian Dreams: A Search for a Better Life by Tobias Jones. Adam Smith for Dummies: A review of On the Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke. A review of The Metaphysics of Capital by Nicholas Ruiz.

A review of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. A review of An Argument for Mind by Jerome Kagan. A review of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science by Daniel M. Gross. A review of In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind by John F. Schumaker. A review of The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton. A review of Philosophizing the Everyday: Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Theory by John Roberts.