Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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

Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023 What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger’s … Continue reading →

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