Category Archives: Gottfried Leibniz

Stephen Connelly, Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power – Edinburgh University Press, March 2021

Posted on January 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Stephen Connelly, Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power – Edinburgh University Press, March 2021 A critical reading of Leibniz’s legal theory, linking law, space and power  Contributes to an archaeology of power Investigates the deep link between law, … Continue reading →

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Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university?

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university? – a discussion in The Guardian by Lloyd Strickland. If you know Lloyd’s work – which I do – then the answer is not surprising…

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Books received – Lefebvre, Nail, Wikileaks, RIS, Leibniz, Groupe Information Santé

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

A real mix of stuff – a collection edited by Lefebvre on Fourier, Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant (which I endorsed and mentioned last week); the new issue of Review of International Studies; Verso’s new book The Wikileaks Files; an offprint of an … Continue reading →

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Leibniz on the geography of flooding in Annals of Science, with commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

A previously unpublished letter by Leibniz on the geography of flooding has been published in Annals of Science with a commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church. Lloyd is a leading Leibniz scholar and Michael is one of the few physical geographers I know with … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, but also Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report and the new issue of Geographica Helvetica (which included my piece ‘Leibniz and Geography‘.

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Leibniz archive

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

A very interesting post by Stephen Wolfram about working in the Leibniz archive, with plenty of photographs of his manuscripts (via Leiter Reports).

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Leibniz paper forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper on Leibniz, now under the title ‘Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician’ is forthcoming with Geographica Helvetica. Given that journal’s remit of crossing between linguistic traditions, it is a fitting home for a … Continue reading →

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Leibniz and Geography references

Posted on August 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Thanks for the comments on the previous post on this. As a couple of people asked, I’ve uploaded the bibliography for the paper. It’s not a reading list on the topic, because there are things referenced that are not directly … Continue reading →

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Geographers on Leibniz – a question

Posted on August 14, 2012 by stuartelden
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Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading →

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