Category Archives: Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday – and some thoughts on Elden and Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography (2011)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by stuartelden

It’s Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday today. I’ve not written much on Kant, but he was the topic of perhaps my favourite of the essay collections I’ve edited or co-edited – Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography, SUNY … Continue reading →

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on March 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024

Posted on January 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024 The French publication was with Gallimard in 1973. Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy During the early … Continue reading →

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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the … Continue reading →

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Martial Gueroult, Critique de la raison pure de Kant – previously unpublished lecture course, Éditions du Collège de France, November 2022

Posted on April 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Martial Gueroult, Critique de la raison pure de Kant – Éditions du Collège de France, edited by Arnaud Pelletier, November 2022 A previously unpublished lecture course, from 1957-58. Gueroult held the history of philosophy chair at the Collège de France, succeeded by … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna’, Berfrois, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a short piece at Berfrois, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna‘. Sadly Berfrois is closing, so I want … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Update October 2025: NDPR review by Lara … Continue reading →

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Two reviews of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) by Colin Koopman and Jasper Friedrich – and a note on Heidegger

Posted on October 15, 2022 by stuartelden

There are two recent reviews of The Early Foucault by Colin Koopman at The Review of Politics (requires subscription) and Jasper Friedrich at Foucault Studies (open access). They are generous and appreciative, though not uncritical. I’m grateful to both for taking the time to … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022 An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hegel, Skinner, Pereltsvaig and Lewis, Kant (with a grumble about books in a series)

Posted on May 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Cambridge University Press: The first four volumes of the Cambridge Hegel Translations, Quentin Skinner’s From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, The Indo-European Controversy, and Kant’s Lectures and Drafts … Continue reading →

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