Category Archives: Books

Schmitt

Posted on July 19, 2010 by stuartelden

Critical Animal has a discussion of Schmitt and Heidegger here, beginning from my Radical Philosophy piece on Carl Schmitt. The discussion doesn’t directly engage with my reading of Schmitt, and I appreciate very much that it has sparked some thoughts, … Continue reading →

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On books and their titles

Posted on July 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post ‘on book titles and subtitles’ here. He’s talking about the publisher desire for keywords in titles in order to help position them in the market. Fair enough, although it can have some distorting effects. … Continue reading →

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Terror and Territory reviewed in Choice

Posted on July 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory is reviewed in the July edition of Choice by Matthew O’Gara. The book is described as a “highly welcome work” that “interrogates the seemingly contradictory nature of state sovereignty”. It’s praised for refuting the claim that “the … Continue reading →

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Jean Bodin

Posted on July 12, 2010 by stuartelden

I think I may finally have finished with Jean Bodin. Bodin’s Six Livres de la République is probably more talked about than read, and there is no modern English translation of the complete work. (There is an abridged edition from … Continue reading →

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Initial thoughts on Andreas Knichen

Posted on July 9, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been slowly struggling my way through Andreas Knichen’s 1600 book, De sublimi et regio territorii iure synoptica tractatio. Knichen was a German jurist and political advisor. Some thoughts:- – Knichen explicitly links the notion of Landeshoheit with superioritas territorialis. … Continue reading →

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Althusius, territory, and his sources

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Althusius refers to a few sources in his definition of the territory of the kingdom as the bounded place within which the law of the kingdom is exercised. I know that put like that alone it sounds pretty mundane: but … Continue reading →

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New Geographies

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Many people will know that of the US Ivy League institutions only Dartmouth College still has a geography programme. But Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has been putting out some interesting issues of a new journal entitled New Geographies. Geography … Continue reading →

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Hobbes

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been without decent internet in the past few days. So England lost the football, but they won the cricket again, to take a 3-0 lead in a five match series against Australia. I’ve also been reading lots of Hobbes. This … Continue reading →

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Another Althusius passage

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Even though these heads, prefects, and rectors of provinces recognise the supreme magistrate of the realm [summum regni magistratum] as their superior, from whom their administration and power are conceded, nevertheless they have rights of sovereignty in their territory [jura … Continue reading →

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Johannes Althusius, Politica

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been reading Johannes Althusius, Politica – a text originally published in 1603. I’ve become more and more convinced that there are some really important works between Bodin and Botero and the more familiar 17th century thinkers of Grotius, Hobbes, … Continue reading →

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