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This is a bit of a self-serving post (nothing new for a blog, I guess). I think it might go a bit beyond the self-serving, though, so here goes:

I have an article in the newest issue of Philosophy Today (one might have seen this on Farhang's Continental Philosophy board) titled "Sartre and the Communicative Paradigm in Critical Theory." Right after it in the issue is an article by David Sherman titled "Sartre, Critical Theory, and the Paradox of Freedom," so anyone interested in drawing links between Sartre and the Frankfurt School (or interested in Sartre generally) should check the issue out.

What is particularly funny about this is that David and I gave versions of those papers, on the same panel on Sartre and Critical Theory, at the last North American Sartre Society meeting. That our papers are together again in Philosophy Today is sheer coincidence.

I think it is quite a happy coincidence, though. While both papers are on the same basic topic, they should provide very different takes on the issue. David's work focuses more on first generation critical theory than mine, and he has a bit of a different take on Sartre, so reading the two papers together should be particularly interesting. Enjoy!

About a year ago, just around the time that we started this blog, Paul Ricoeur passed away. I had hoped that more blogs and sites would announce such an important loss…I was therefore glad that we begun this project and I hope that it will keep growing nicely. It is especially nice to have an online community of nova folks. Looking at the “reports” section, we seem to have a nice number of visitors a day!

I hate adding to the ever expanding blogosphere but in the interest of having a kind of a bulletin board for continental philosophy, I have set this site up: www.continental-philosophy.org and I really mean for it to be a bulletin board – just posting CFPs, book publications, articles of interest, teaching stuff and general announcements for continental and the history of philosophy. There are apparently softwares out there that allow you to have a real bulletin board site but I could not afford those. In the meantime I hope that people would email me interesting CFPs, publication info, etc. So if you have any news (obviously post it here at NovaPhDs first) and wish to post it on that site, email me!

Hope your summers are productive. Mine is quite Sartrean…