Category Archives: Eduardo Mendieta

Mayhew on Historical Geography and Intellectual History

Robert Mayhew’s review essay of some books on these topics has just appeared in Journal of Historical Geography (requires subscription). Among the books discussed is Reading Kant’s Geography. Here are a couple of excerpts discussing that book: For the present reviewer, per … Continue reading

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Kant’s Geography in Atlanta

I’ll be speaking about Kant’s Geography in Atlanta in December at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. It’s a session on the Reading Kant’s Geography book with Robert Bernasconi and Robert Louden also speaking. Eduardo Mendieta will also be there, … Continue reading

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Gunnar Olsson on Reading Kant’s Geography

A detailed and very generous review (which becomes much more) of Reading Kant’s Geography by Gunnar Olsson in Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography (requires subscription): So hot are the connections between the geography/anthropology courses and Kant’s overall philosophy that the … Continue reading

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Luise Fischer on Reading Kant’s Geography

Nice review of Reading Kant’s Geography at H-Net. The review is freely available, but here are a couple of excerpts: Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta’s edition Reading Kant’s Geography is a masterful attempt “to remedy this glaring neglect” and to … Continue reading

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New APPS interview with Eduardo Mendieta

Find it here. A fascinating story of his background and the huge range of things he works on.

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading

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Reading Kant’s Geography paperback

Despite the paperback not being on Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com, the paperback is definitely available. The SUNY Press website is selling it, but will chase them to try to make this more widely available. Even though the initial hardback price was steep, … Continue reading

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German Philosophy and Geography

This the session I am organising at the New York AAG (24-28 Feb 2012). The impact of philosophers on geography, in recent years, has largely been from the French tradition—Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou and others. There are exceptions, of course, … Continue reading

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Camus, ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’

Eduardo Mendieta suggests that Albert Camus’s ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ is worth another look. Of course the French debate happened some time ago, but not that long ago – one of the things Foucault did when involved with the Groupe … Continue reading

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Reading Kant’s Geography reactions

Nice initial reaction to the Reading Kant’s Geography collection here, saying it “looks like a pretty interesting, perspective-shifting book”. Robert B. Louden’s Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature is out this week. It reprints Robert’s essay from … Continue reading

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