Category Archives: Books

Rousseau on writing

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

In The Discourses and other Early Political Writings there is a very short text entitled ‘Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book’. Rousseau here makes writing sound deceptively easy:  When one undertakes to write a work, one has … Continue reading →

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Erlangen – academic

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some academic thoughts on the trip to Erlangen. The lecture seemed to go well. A good size audience in a nice modern lecture room in the castle – now part of the University. Though I knew it was being recorded … Continue reading →

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Erlangen Cultural Geography lecture

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

I’m finishing writing the lecture I’ll give in Erlangen tomorrow evening. I think I’ve managed to find a balance between a lecture that will work and one that will be sufficiently different for me to find it interesting. One of the … Continue reading →

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New Heidegger books

Posted on July 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Continuum are publishing a translation of Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression – details here. That’s volume 59 of the Gesamtausgabe. Klostermann have announced that the next two volumes of the Gesamtausgabe to be published will be volumes 74 and 78. … Continue reading →

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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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