Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht – published and review forthcoming

David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht has recently been published. Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy. During the 1980s Jacques Derrida … Continue reading

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Books received – Chamayou, Kotef, Smirl, Shakespeare, Heidegger, Kluge and Negt

Some more books – these are ones I bought, with the exception of Hagar Kotef’s Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, which was sent by the publisher. The others include Lisa Smirl’s posthumous Spaces of Aid, Kluge … Continue reading

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Freiburg will not replace Günter Figal in the ‘Heidegger’ Chair

Story from the Daily Nous – ‘Heidegger’ chair not to be filled when Figal retires, but another analytic post, at a lower level, instead. Three updates at Daily Nous with more information. The University of Freiburg, the academic home of Günter Figal—who recently stepped … Continue reading

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Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ for critical-theory.com For why I’m not saying more, see last week’s post – Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

In addition to the pieces linked a few days ago, this news from Philippe Theophanidis: An audio recording of a lecture Jean-Luc Nancy’s gave back in October 2014 just surfaced on the web. The title of the lecture is “Die Banalität … Continue reading

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Heidegger and the Global Age – conference at Sussex, 29-30 Oct 2015

Heidegger and the Global Age, 29-30 October 2015 at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK Full details on their website – keynotes include Joanna Hodge, Laurence Hemming, Fred Dallmayr and Peg Birmingham.

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Heidegger Black Notebooks, Vol IV 1942-48 – soon out and link to Italian review

The fourth book of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ is due out very soon – Anmerkungen I-V. Again, there is a missing notebook in the sequence. The volume is not on the Klostermann site, but is on Amazon.de. There is an Italian … Continue reading

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Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks

Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks. Daily Nous has the story – thanks to Graham Harman for the link. I admit to being puzzled by this – Figal took up the chair in … Continue reading

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Heidegger et « les juifs » – conference in Paris, January 2015

Major conference 22-25 January 2015 in Paris on ‘Heidegger et « les juifs »’ – details here. Peter Sloterdijk, Peter Trawny, Babette Babich and Blandine Kriegel among the speakers. Thanks to Andrzej Serafin for the link.

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Heidegger Gesamtausgabe app with links to available translations

An app linking to available translations of volumes of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe is available here – requires free registration. A webpage listing (not needing registration) is here.

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