Reviews for Pseudo-Science Of B. F. Skinner

The average rating for Pseudo-Science Of B. F. Skinner based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-20 00:00:00 David Giles Easily one of the best political theory books I've ever read. Dillon takes up some of Heidegger's "less" political texts, asks if we can take them seriously as political thought and from this point, reconstructs what is known as politics AS a politics of security, which gradually loses meaning as anything told by "typical" Cold War or post-Cold War analyses and instead becomes a process of confronting and taming reality. This has two closely related fronts - the first one is a radical challenge to the 'unreality' of whatever 'realist' or 'idealist' politics of security there are, and at the same time, showing how through confronting these matters, we can arrive to a much broader and deeper understanding of politics as traditionally held. The re-reading of Greek tragedy as a counter-problematique to the eschatologies of liberal security then simply comes as stellar. Not an easy book to read, but rewarding.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-10 00:00:00 Robert O Eversole 3rd An absolutely inspiring read.. challenging, difficult, needs a lot of focus.. but my experience with it tells me it's indispensable. If you want to read something on the essence of security, freedom, polity and all of these terms. That's the book to read. It elaborates mainly on Heidegger but also Foucault and Derrida .. Oedipus Rex is a major pillar in the book institution that is also analyzed very brilliantly by Dillon.