Welchman, Alastair. "Review of John Mullarkey's POST-CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY." NDPR October 22, 2007.

This book has two aims. First, it provides readings of four French philosophers more or less outside of the main phenomenological stream of French ('continental') thought exemplified by Derrida. The philosophers are Gilles Deleuze, Michel Henry, Alain Badiou and François Laruelle. Collectively they constitute the beginning of what Mullarkey takes to be the post-continental philosophy of his book's title. Mullarkey considers these thinkers to be united by a commitment to the idea of immanence. But he argues that each of these philosophers tacitly betrays the immanence they are officially committed to. And this leads to the second aim of the book: an original philosophy of immanence that avoids the pitfalls identified in the rest of book. Here Mullarkey's central term is ‘diagram’, a word that he intends literally (among other ways). . . . For the review, please go to the following link: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11523.