Monthly Archives: August 2010

Gratton on Heidegger, and the Beiträge

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton’s response to the Heidegger posts is thoughtful and balanced. He is surely right that any book on the 30s would have to deal with the Nazi question in a way that would dominate the rest of the story. … Continue reading →

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More on Heidegger in the 20s and 30s

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham responds to my earlier post on Heidegger here. I don’t think it’s as much of a disagreement as he thinks. Basically there seem to be three issues. – Graham wants a biography for that period, and says that the … Continue reading →

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Heidegger in the 1920s and 1930s

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a post here about Heidegger’s Marburg years. He suggests that a biography just focusing on those years – 1923-1928 – would be fascinating for all sorts of reasons. The reasons are all good, although I’d suggest that the … Continue reading →

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Speaking of Leibniz…

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Good little story about him here.

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Gratton on sovereignty

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton replies to two of my recent posts here and here. Both replies have great titles. The first is a discussion of the canon. Peter writes  As someone who wrote an entire chapter on Boulainviller, I’m happy to change … Continue reading →

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Urbanomic

Posted on August 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Urbanomic, the publisher behind the Collapse journal, have updated their website. Among other things there are details of Collapse VII, you can download the whole of Collapse I (including an interview with Badiou), and details of an event at the … Continue reading →

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Somalia and the question of territory

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Cara Nine at Territory and Justice raises the question of Somalia. Her reference is to a piece in Der Spiegel and some BBC pieces. For her, the question is The case of the failed state is interesting because it forces … Continue reading →

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Brief addendum

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

This is worth a look. It’s Timothy Morton on his conversion to object-orientated ontology. This bit is worth reading: I’m an English Prof. who was trained at the height of New Historicism, which meant that you had to run to … Continue reading →

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Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading →

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Hiking and Reading

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

The weekend was spent hiking with Susan and friends in the Peak District, around the village of Edale. On Saturday, we went up to the plateau of Kinder Scout (and got absolutely drenched); and on Sunday up Mam Tor and … Continue reading →

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