Category Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche

Tracy B. Strong – Politics Without Vision reviewed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Very positive review in THES. The book – full details at the University of Chicago Press page and press release – discusses Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Strong’s book Friedrich … Continue reading →

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Complete Works of Nietzsche – another volume

Posted on October 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Finally! Twelve years after the last volume a new volume of the Stanford Complete Works of Nietzsche is published. This is only the fourth volume of a planned 20 volume edition translating the 15 volume Kritische Gesamtausgabe. The new volume is Dawn, … Continue reading →

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German Philosophy and Geography

Posted on September 27, 2011 by stuartelden

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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Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

In working on my lecture on Foucault’s 1970-71 course I have been rereading some related texts, including the “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” essay. I know this text well, as I’ve taught it and it was a fundamental text in my PhD … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

As exciting as the English version of The Courage of Truth is, the real news in Foucault studies this year is surely the publication of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. I gave this an initial, fairly fast, read on … Continue reading →

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Connolly ‘A World of Becoming’ workshop

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Very enjoyable workshop on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming yesterday. One of the striking things was how different the various papers were, picking on lots of aspects of the book and taking them in a range of directions. … Continue reading →

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Of: Becoming World – on William Connolly

Posted on May 20, 2011 by stuartelden

‘Of: Becoming World’ is the title of the talk I’ll be giving at the workshop on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming. I begin by showing how the title’s ambiguity hinges on the word ‘of’: there is so much … Continue reading →

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Babich on Foucault-Nietzsche-Heidegger

Posted on March 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Babette Babich’s book chapter “A Philosophical Shock’: Foucault’s Reading of Heidegger and Nietzsche” is available open access here.

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Heidegger – Introduction to Philosophy

Posted on January 29, 2011 by stuartelden

The first book I’ve read by Heidegger in some years was the English translation Introduction to Philosophy-Thinking and Poetizing (Indiana UP, 2011). At $30 for 74 pages it’s not exactly cheap. Part of the reason is that this was a … Continue reading →

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Two more Sloterdijk chapters

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Two more Sloterdijk chapters are now in final, pre-review, form. The first is by Babette Babich and discusses Sloterdijk’s cynicism; the second by Eduardo Mendieta on the humanism/posthumanism/transhumanism debates. Both discuss Sloterdijk’s relation to Nietzsche, and the Mendieta chapter discusses his engagement … Continue reading →

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