God’s away

Reivew of Willem Styfhals, No Spiritual Investment in the World

Daniel Fraser ~ RP 2.13 (October 2022), pp. 103–107 ~ Review

Willem Styfhals, No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 2019). 306pp., £112.00 hb., £32.00 pb., 978 1 50173 099 3 hb., 978 1 50173 100 6 pb. Willem Styfhals’ new book offers a conceptual history of Gnosticism within a deceptively narrow discursive field. Though Gnosticism re-emerged and become […]

All that Hegel allows

Reivew of Robert Pippin, Filmed Thought

Daniel Fraser ~ RP 2.09 (Winter 2020), pp. 100–103 ~ Review

Robert Pippin, Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). 312pp., £79.00 hb., £28.00 pb., 978 022667 1 956 hb., 978 022667 2 007 pb. The course of the relationship between philosophy and film studies never did run smooth. The encounter of these two disciplines, while producing both influential and exciting […]