Matustik and McBride's edited _Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity_ is not only a fitting festschrift to one of America's leading voices in contemporary Continental European philosophy, but it is also an impressive collection of critical and philosophical essays in its own right.

The introductory chapter by Gary Madison, "Bringing Philosophy into the Twenty-First Century," contextualizes the essays that follow. Many of the essays are homages and salutes to Schrag, originally delivered at a one-day conference honoring the retirement of the renowned philosopher. All but two of the essays in this collection were presented to Schrag at this celebration, and his humbling, insightful and witty responses to the contributors conclude this volume.

Of special interest are the essays by Edward S. Casey, Merold Westphal, Hwa Yol Jung, John D. Caputo, and Lenore Langsdorf, as they elaborate on and continue Schragean themes and notions.

This volume serves as a wonderful backdrop to Schrag's latest offering, _God as Otherwise than Being: Toward a Semantics of the Gift_ (2002, Northwestern Univ. Press). Here Schrag makes a fitting return to his Kierkegaardian origins, and continues the discourse on the ethics of the "gift" shared by Marcel Mauss, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, and others.