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Review of Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon (ed), 50 concepts for a critical phenomenology, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press

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  1. “Worldmaking” is, as Srinivasan acknowledges, a term derived from Nelson Goodman, whose use harkens back to Cassirer. But the sense that Srinivasan uses this term to express is different from that found in Goodman and Cassirer insofar as Srinivasan’s sense is a narrower, social-political one, which does not imply allegiance to ontological anti-realism.

  2. Thus, in this review I stray somewhat from the traditional aims of a book review. In writing this review, I cleaved closer to an assessment of the book as a whole in order to communicate to the reader a general sense of what critical phenomenology is, as this is suggested by the book’s entries, and the controversies surrounding this question. For a review that beautifully accomplishes the more traditional goal of describing and engaging the diverse contents of a number of the book’s chapters, see O’Byrne (2020).

  3. For a defense of granting Fanon this elevated status, see Al-Saji (forthcoming).

  4. For an illuminating overview of this ambiguity of “critique” in critical phenomenology’s self-conception, see Guenther (2021).

  5. Many thanks to Leyla Sophie Gleissner, Sebastian Luft, and Anne O’Byrne for their thoughtful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft.

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Kidd, C. Review of Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon (ed), 50 concepts for a critical phenomenology, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. Phenom Cogn Sci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09928-9

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