Christopher A. Dustin

Very complicated to rate this book. When the book is "on' it is easily a five star effort. The authors try to hard to redeem or rehabilitate "difficult" thinking/writing. That effort grinds things into two star territory. One could easily, if disingenuously, apply the same generosity to *all* endeavors. In some sense this is the same criticism I bring to Derrida - if one labors long enough, gets philological enough, and is tenacious enough one can read against any grain. This strikes me as particularly strange given the notion of craft in this book. This book is still a refreshing challenge. And it challenges in fundamental ways. It is deep - and to even describe something that way in these times is challenging. Highly, highly recommended, but one has to be open in some sense to what is being revealed before beginning reading and that is its first challenge.… (meer)