Reviews Roundup – May 2025

We’re thrilled to have received these great reviews from respected academics in renowned journals! Make sure to read the full reviews through the links below, and we hope you’ll check out these titles and more on our website.

Review Highlights

Title: Philosophy, Death and Education by Peter Roberts, R. Scott Webster and John Quay

Review by: René V. Arcilla, New York University  

“I very much support the project of Philosophy, Death and Education. Roberts, Webster, and Quay have convinced me that we should and can be educated more profoundly in the meaning of our mortality.”

Featured in: Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 44 (2025), pp. 233-37 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-025-09984-5 

Title: The Paradox of Becoming: Pentecostalicity, Planetarity, and Africanity by Chammah J. Kaunda

Review by: Diana Lunkwitz, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

“In The Paradox of Becoming, Kaunda has brought his preceding research into a theoretical focus. He provides an engaging new philosophical–theological approach. Thanks to this detailed analysis that goes beyond an indigenization of Muntu, future generations in the humanities will receive forward-looking and thought-provoking stimuli to reconceptualize the human and all life in the planetary age.”

Featured in: PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024) Special Issue: Pentecostalism and Gender, pp. 94-96 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.33467 

Title: Timeline and Personification in the Merchant of Venice: Passover, Easter and the Case of the Returning Ships by Peter D. Usher  

Review by: Dr Clifford Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland 

“Usher is an expert at elucidating complexities in the works of Shakespeare. This book is superbly written and logically structured, as evident by the tables of data he includes. His methodology is precise, which enables anyone (whether a Shakespeare scholar or not) to understand his thesis here.” 

Featured in: JAHH, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 312-314 

Link: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.2025.01.28 

Title: The Observable: Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics by Patrick Aidan Heelan

Review by: Paul Downes, Dublin City University

“Heelan’s book serves as an inspiring and highly insightful invitation to shed the fabric of taken for granted realities as part of an ontological truth quest for QM, as a step beyond the Copenhagen interpretation of complementarity between quantum waves and particles, towards fulfilment of a lost vision of Heisenberg.” 

Featured in: AI & Society, Volume 38 (2023), pp. 2363-67 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01157-5  

Title: Raum als berufspädagogische Dimension: Empirische Befunde und theoretische Überlegungen zu Interdependenzen zwischen Orten und Berufsbildungssystemen by Marco Hjelm-Madsen

Review by: Prof Dr Birgit Ziegler, Technische Universität Darmstadt

“Der Autor des vorliegenden Buches stellt daher die etwas provokante Frage, ob Berufspädagogik „Raum könne“ (S. 3)), um sich dann selbst auf den Weg zu machen, die Dimension Raum für den berufspädagogischen Diskurs zu erschließen. Seine Untersuchung charakterisiert Hjelm-Madsen als „raumbezogene Grundlagenforschung“ mit „experimentellem Charakter” (S. 30).”

Featured in: ZBW, Volume 120, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 708-11 

Link: https://biblioscout.net/journal/zbw/120/4 

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