Reviews for John McDowell

The average rating for John McDowell based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-06 00:00:00 Derek Davis This was a delightful meditation . As one who considers Deleuzian terms and concepts, daft and nonsensical, I could still enjoy their patient methodical application to the selected works. Interludes on Kipling, Cummings, Dickens, Swift, Joyce demonstrated such love for style and stuttering. I would really like to re-read this at some future date and write a more detailed review.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-22 00:00:00 Richard Ulam Lecercle's take on Deleuze's philosophy of language might not be a complete fit as he manages to gloss over certain aspects that I believe are central to understanding especially the pragmatical take on language in Mille Plateaux (such as the interchangable status of body and sign, the function of il and the illocutive functioning of language). Still it is a comprehensive and illuminating explication of what is mostly implicit theory of language, that develops and radically changes throughout the works of Deleuze.