RECENT Publications

Southeastern faculty and staff regularly produce publications in nearly every imaginable genre and field. Here is a sampling of some of the recent book releases.

An Inquiry into AnalyticContinental Metaphysics: Truth, Relevance, and Metaphysics Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance, and Politics

BY JEFFREY BELL

Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey Bell recently published two books by Edinburgh University Press that delve deep into philosophical topics and demonstrate his excellence in his field.

An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics: Truth, Relevance, and Metaphysics offers a novel approach to thinking about a number of longstanding problems in metaphysics, issues that have persisted through the history of philosophy.

According to Michael Della Rocca of Yale University, “With stunning erudition, interdisciplinary insight, and characteristic boldness, Bell highlights the vicissitudes of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Equally at home in the history of philosophy and in contemporary philosophy, as well as in both analytical and continental traditions, this pluralist manifesto powerfully challenges the one-sided alliance with science that has led to an unfortunate scaling back of philosophy's traditional pursuit of the questions of relevance and meaning.”

Alan D. Schrift of Grinnell College said that in Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance, and Politics, Bell has created a “profound and original reflection on our current situation. Jeff Bell draws upon a wealth of social scientific research and an astonishing variety of philosophical resources, from Hume, Russell, and Wittgenstein to Kierkegaard, Camus, and Deleuze, to propose critical existentialism as the solution to the most fundamental of problems, that of making sense.”