Duke University Press Log

Jackson's The Palm at the End of the Mind Reviewed in TLS

Michael Jackson's latest book, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real, is reviewed in an essay on the philosophy of religion in the December 11 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Reviewer Jonathan Benthall writes, "Michael Jackson’s sixty-one short essays, based on his experiences in disparate geographical settings, are designed to speak to each reader individually like a sophisticated musical composition, rather than advancing a linear argument." He continues, "Jackson’s case that ‘history, religion, spirituality, culture are shop-worn terms,’ and should be replaced by ‘the image of life at the edge of language, a shoreline on which the sea washes ceaselessly,’ is given substance by his own literary skill. And it is possible to glimpse here the makings of a shared ‘religious’ sensibility that may be fitfully emerging to unite different peoples and traditions, in ways influenced by, but not entirely decreed by, the gods of the marketplace."

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, 1963-2007

We were saddened to learn of the death of Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, author of the forthcoming book On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism. Eze, Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, passed away December 30, 2007 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. A memorial service for Professor Eze will be held at DePaul on January 24.