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march: new reviews

Posted on March 1, 2012 by David Winters
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reviews of recent books by will wiles and peter gordon

I have two new pieces in print this month. The first is a review of Will Wiles’ new novel Care of Wooden Floors in the Times Literary Supplement (2 March 2012). The second is a review of Peter Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos in issue 172 of Radical Philosophy.

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every beggar is odysseus

Posted on August 10, 2011 by David Winters
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Issue IV of the excellent Letters Journal is out now.

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