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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2025.09.5 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews

Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double, Polity Press, 2024, 180 pp., $22.95 (pbk), ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-6088-2.

Reviewed by Espen Hammer, Temple University

While on paper an obvious insider, Raymond Geuss has for decades been criticizing contemporary philosophy as though he were an outsider, viewing it as an intellectually limiting practice too occupied with academically narrow, self-generated problems. He performs this critique with an eye to the past, returning often to canonical or more peripheral figures from the history not only of philosophy but adjacent fields such as literature and classics; accordingly, he aspires to occupy the position of the interdisciplinary critic and interpreter, highlighting exemplary achievements that inspire a more inclusive approach to philosophy. To be sure, Geuss is also known for...