Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know

Graham Burchell’s transiton of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know is scheduled for publication in June 2013 (via Foucault News). You can read my review of the French text at Berfrois. Here’s the publisher blurb: This volume gives us … Continue reading

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Books received

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The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life

Also at NDPR, a very positive review of Scott Campbell’s The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life, which looks very interesting. In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical … Continue reading

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Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading

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When Heidegger met Lacan

This photo has been doing the rounds on facebook (via Difundir Psicoanálisis). It is from Heidegger’s visit to Lacan’s home at Guitrancourt which he visited shortly before delivering the ‘What is Philosophy?’ lecture at Cerisy-la-salle in 1955. A young Kostas Axelos was the … Continue reading

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Michael Eldred on Heidegger and world

A short piece by Michael Eldred – Being Time Space – Heidegger’s Casting of World. This essay gives an exposition of Heidegger’s late thinking on being, time and space, showing how each eventuates appropriately from the Ereignis (propriation). Three talks … Continue reading

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David Wood on The Lure of the Writer’s Cabin

Philosopher David Wood in The New York Times: Much has been written about the writer’s cabin. Among the most notable recent books on the topic are “Heidegger’s Hut” by Adam Sharr and “A Place of My Own: The Architecture of … Continue reading

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Books received

Another pile of books. David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; the Heidegger & Nietzsche collection I have a piece in; the new biography of Derrida and Beyond Walls and Cages in recompense for review work; another one of Jean Gottmann’s works; … Continue reading

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Heidegger and Nietzsche

In 2004 I attended a conference in Heidegger’s hometown of Meßkirch. The conference was held in the town’s Schloß which had a Heidegger-museum in the basement, his grave was in the local cemetery and there were signs for the Martin-Heidegger-Weg that would … Continue reading

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Books received

People seem to like these posts, so here’s another pile of books received – the most recent volume from Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe (volume 83), which is seminars on Plato, Aristotle and Augustine; some books by Jean Gottmann and a Festschrift on his … Continue reading

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