Monthly Archives: January 2014

Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte (Black Notebooks) publishing details

Posted on January 31, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve done a bit of hunting around for details of the publication of the Schwarze Hefte (Black Notebooks). They are due out in March 2014, and comprise Volumes 94-96 of the Gesamtausgabe. Their overall title is Überlegungen – considerations or observations. Volume … Continue reading →

Posted in Martin Heidegger, Publishing | 1 Comment

More on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ and anti-semitism

Posted on January 31, 2014 by stuartelden

Another piece in Die Zeit, and an English discussion in Prospect by Jonathan Derbyshire. Thanks to Enowning and Peter Gratton for the links. This one is going to run and run…

Posted in Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing | 2 Comments

Critical-Theory.com’s list of books that came out in January

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Some good titles here.

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

“Medieval rules for sex in an easy to use flowchart”

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

“Medieval rules for sex in an easy to use flowchart created by James A Brundage as posted in the @TheAtlantic“, via @MedievalArchive. Having spent the day working on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, this is certainly appropriate.

Posted in Michel Foucault | 5 Comments

The Structure of Hegel’s Logic – in visual form

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

An interactive visualisation of the structure of Hegel’s Logic. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | 7 Comments

Carlo Natali, Aristotle: His Life and School reviewed at NDPR

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Carlo Natali, Aristotle: His Life and School, D. S. Hutchinson (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2013, reviewed by Michael J. Griffin at NDPR.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Philippe Theophanidis on Foucault and the Problem of War

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Some useful bibliographical pointers to places where Foucault discusses the question of war from Philippe Theophanidis, beginning from this 1981 quotation. Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

“Interview with Stuart Elden” at Groundwork

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Another interview with me, conducted by Jordan Skinner, has been published at the Groundwork site – a blog run by past and present students of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. It ranges widely across … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Fossils, Foucault's Last Decade, Graham Harman, Martin Heidegger, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Publishing, Quentin Meillassoux, Shakespearean Territories, Society and Space, Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Universities, William Shakespeare, Writing | 1 Comment

A review of Punk Sociology

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
Sociology in the Anglophone world has been in the doldrums for some time. Since the heady days of poststructuralism and postmodernism, until very recently few advances had been made in theory or method. British…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Thompson and Zizek (ed.) The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting looking new collection just out with Duke University Press. The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The “speculative materialism” that he first … Continue reading →

Posted in Slavoj Zizek | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment