Category Archives: David Farrell Krell

Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 27: more archive work on Saussure, Blanchot, Foucault, Jakobson and Koyré, two recordings, and a talk at the University at Buffalo

I’ve been doing a lot more work in archives in the United States for this project over the past few weeks. I had a few days up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was even colder than New York. There, I was … Continue reading

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Hannah Arendt, David Farrell Krell and the early English translations of Heidegger

Some years ago, when I was working on Heidegger, I read David Farrell Krell’s “Work Sessions with Martin Heidegger” essay. These were sessions in which Krell discussed some of Heidegger’s vocabulary and worked with him on possible English renderings, as … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023

David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023 In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida … Continue reading

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Books received – Pelluchon, Eddé, Alarm Phone, Farrell Krell, Hoffmann, Miller, Jullien, Dumézil

Books received – Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body; Dominique Eddé, Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel; 5 Years of Alarm Phone (also available as a free download); David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter; Marcelo Hoffmann, Militant … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019

David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019 Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell, “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Magnetism of the Trakl House” (on Derrida’s Geschlecht III – video)

And while we’re on that theme – David Farrell Krell, “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Magnetism of the Trakl House” (on Derrida’s Geschlecht III – video)

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Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité – Seuil, 2018

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité  The third, and previously unpublished, text in Derrida’s series of discussions of Heidegger is coming out with Seuil in October 2018. I’m not quite sure how an essay has become a whole … Continue reading

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Books received – Krell, Whyte, Minca & Giacarra, Bouzarovski

Two books from SUNY Press in recompense for review work, the edited collection Hitler’s Geographies (in which I have a piece reprinted), Stefan Bouzarovski’s Retrofitting the City, sent by the publisher, and the most recent issues of Area, Radical Philosophy … Continue reading

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My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht in Derrida Today

My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht, Albany: State University of New York, 2015 has now been published in Derrida Today (open access) or try here if that doesn’t work.

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