Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

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Iain D. Thomson, Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Iain D. Thomson, Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 New Books discussion with Stephen Dozeman. Thanks to dmf for the link. Iain D. Thomson is renowned for radically rethinking Heidegger’s views on metaphysics, technology, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Wittgenstein, Wahnich, Heidegger and Löwith, Alexander, Hill, Sebastian

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work from Rowan & Littlefield – Wittgenstein’s diaries, Wahnich, The French Revolution in Theory, the Heidegger and Löwith correspondence, a biography of WEB Du Bois, Leslie Hill, Nancy, Blanchot and Mihail Sebastian’s Journal … Continue reading →

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Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Canguilhem, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023

Posted on May 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023 In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism … 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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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Georges Bataille, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | 7 Comments

Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Cassirer, Marcel Mauss, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023 Doesn’t seem to gave a publisher page yet, but listed here. Dans une lettre de 1987, Maurice Blanchot revient dans un post-scriptum essentiel sur son rapport à l’œuvre … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas

Posted on April 26, 2023 by stuartelden

In several previous projects – on Foucault, Heidegger, Canguilhem, territory – I’ve briefly mentioned the work of Alexandre Koyré. He’s coming up again in the new work in relation to Benveniste, Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson. Koyré introduced Lévi-Strauss to Jakobson … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Husserl, Emile Benveniste, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 13 Comments