Reviews for On Heidegger and Language

The average rating for On Heidegger and Language based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-10 00:00:00 Richard Cesaroni Bryant's project is important and I think he's right to critique the (many) people who are only too happy to cherry-pick Deleuze's conclusions without understanding how he arrives at them. It's an important work for philosophers, especially those who want to better understand Deleuze in terms of his relation to Kant and transcendental philosophy. However, I did not enjoy this book. It's very dense, overuses block quotes (they're practically on every page), and offers few applied examples of the concepts discussed. Further, Bryant works so close to Deleuze, often citing him at length to explain an argument, that one would be better served by simply reading the source texts (mostly "Difference & Repetition" and "Logic of Sense", but "Bergsonism" and "Proust and Signs" too) carefully. This is especially true since the book does not do a great job of presenting these dense ideas in a more digestible format than their original incarnations. Overall, I would recommend Bryant's blog, Larval Subjects, to anyone remotely interested in philosophy, and I still intend to read his forthcoming "Democracy of Objects", but I would only recommend this book to a certain subset of academic philosopher.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-23 00:00:00 Bridget Thomas Bryant's book should be considered a great effort to make a proper philosophical engagement to Deleuze's thought, something needed thanks to the lack of understanding of his project and the harmful habit to dismiss Deleuze (and especially Deleuze&Guattari) as plain philosophical bullsh$t. This book is centered on both most important books by Deleuze: "Difference and Repetition" and "Logic of Sense". The great thing about this book is that it shows Deleuze's decisions responding to specific and classical philosophical problems situating Deleuze in a traditional philosophical lineage. It shows the close relationship with the tradition and how Deleuze's work departs from it in a revolutionary way. Deleuze as a "pure metaphysician". As far as the writing style goes, it is a little technical and dense, but unlike Deleuze's books you can tell Bryant is searching for order and clarity by adopting careful, rigorous and linear argumentation. This book makes me happy. Go for it.