Roy Brand steps away from the technicalities that populate the history of philosophy as an academic discipline, just as he shows himself a truly sanguine observer who stays above the fray of the different and diverging currents and debates of our days. What results is an at once greatly informative and deeply personal book, with chapters that serve as vignettes ... Read moreand epitomize the best of philosophical thinking about a question that matters to most.
Hent de Vries, John Hopkins University, author of Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida Roy Brand takes the reader on a journey through the history of philosophy, examining works by Plato, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida. He does a wonderful job of showing how the relation between love/knowledge weaves its way through these various authors.
Steven Levine, University of Massachusetts, Boston Compelling. Portland Book Review [A]n intensely personal and engrossing book that tackles several major philosophical texts, weaving connections and seeking to discover anew why philosophy, its questions, and its interplay of desire and knowledge are relevant to this day. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY May the neophyte who reads this book be drawn to the field of philosophy, and may the professional be reminded of the LoveKnowledge that sparked her interest in philosophy in the first place.
Diana Karbonowska, University of Guelph Dialogue The greatest strength of Brand's book is that it is humble, an uncommon virtue among academic philosophers.
Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Show Less