Blogging has been pretty much non-existent for me over the past year. I won’t make any promises about the future. If my silence goes on much longer, I will very likely just close down this site altogether.
But I have written a few things over the past months, and here at the links for anyone who might be interested.
First, a review of John Guillory’s recent short book on “close reading.”
https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/37/3/919/8259478
Second, a review of Alexandre LeFebevre’s book, Liberalism as a Way of Life.
Third, an essay on Hannah Arendt’s theory of judgment that considers its deficiencies as a solution to the failure to construct a “common world” within a political and/or social community.
https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.58.1.0040
This last link is only to an abstract of the essay. Contact me at mcgowanjohn74@gmail.com if you would like me to send you a copy of the whole essay. I also have a pdf of the entire special issue of the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric in which the essay appears. Happy to send that along to anyone who is interested.
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