Category Archives: Karl Jaspers

Georges Bataille correspondence – taking a look at the bound volumes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

A lot of letters to and from Georges Bataille have been published (for example, here), but the two bound volumes of correspondence at the Bibliothèque nationale are still something to behold. Given how much of his library and correspondence has … Continue reading

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Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society

Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, which I’m co-editing with Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini, are available online first. These require subscription. Rainer Nicolaysen, Foucault in Hamburg. Notes … Continue reading

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The work of editing – adding references to translations II

In a previous post I said a bit about one of the tasks of editing a translation. I’ve now completed the Heidegger references I discussed in that previous post. The references to Hegel, Jaspers, Heraclitus, Homer, Lukács and Lenin took relatively … Continue reading

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of … Continue reading

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Michael Dillon’s Groningen Lecture on Modes of Reasoning video

Mick Dillon’s lecture ‘The Courage of Truth’ – the inaugural Groningen lecture on Modes of Reasoning, though as Luis Lobo-Guerrero says in his introduction, and as Mick develops, the lectures link back to a series of lectures given by Karl Jaspers – … Continue reading

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