Book Reviews – Todd Dufresne https://todddufresne.com Professor, Author Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:12:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 151786514 GoodReads Review of ‘The Democracy of Suffering’ https://todddufresne.com/book-reviews/goodreads-review-of-the-democracy-of-suffering/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:44:38 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=162 4 Star Review by Peter D. Mathews for GoodReads (January 2020).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44451549-the-democracy-of-suffering

]]> 162 ‘The Democracy of Suffering’: Wit, erudition and philosophical change https://todddufresne.com/book-reviews/the-democracy-of-suffering-wit-erudition-and-philosophical-change/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:06:46 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=151 First review of “The Democracy of Suffering” as it appeared in The Japan Times in October 2019.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/06/books/book-reviews/democracy-suffering-wit-erudition-philosophical-change/#.XqNT-iMrLJw

]]> 151 Interview with Tony Greco on ‘The Democracy of Suffering ‘ in LA Review of Books: https://todddufresne.com/interviews/interview-with-tony-greco-on-the-democracy-of-suffering-on-la-review-of-books/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:33:28 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=125 More]]> In the spring of 2019 Tony Greco sat down with Todd Dufresne to discuss Dufresne’s new book The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene. A brief selection from the book follows this introduction. In late June the two chatted again, this time online, about advance copies of the book, and prepared the interview below. The book is available this September from McGill-Queen’s University Press.

For the Love of Wisdom: Climate Change and the Revenge of History

Greco is a psychotherapist and senior faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. Dufresne is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University. The two first met while undergraduates studying philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

]]> 125 PsycCRITIQUES Review of “The Late Sigmund Freud” https://todddufresne.com/book-reviews/psyccritiques-review-of-the-late-sigmund-freud/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:50:53 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=97 More]]> Daniel Burston reviews “The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life” in the September 11, 2017 issue of PsycCRITIQUES.

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]]> 97 Review of “The Late Sigmund Freud” in Metapsychology Online Reviews https://todddufresne.com/book-reviews/review-of-the-late-sigmund-freud-on-metapsychology-online-reviews/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:36:38 +0000 http://eleven-seventeen.com/todddufresne/?p=27 More]]> “The author writes with great wit and impressive conviction; an astonishing wealth and density of his learning, research and extrapolations are on display in these pages.”

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