Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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Tracy B. Strong – Politics Without Vision reviewed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Very positive review in THES. The book – full details at the University of Chicago Press page and press release – discusses Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Strong’s book Friedrich … Continue reading →

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Eric Santner – The Royal Remains

Posted on May 11, 2012 by stuartelden

I previously knew Santner’s work from his study of Sebald, On Creaturely Life. This more recent book covers similar ground to the Manow book I mentioned a few days ago – the persistence of the ‘two bodies’ idea explored by … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Improper Life – Timothy Campbell

Posted on April 23, 2012 by stuartelden

 Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben – recently out with University of Minnesota Press. The book discusses, between Heidegger and Agamben, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, and Peter Sloterdijk. Campbell is one of the translators of Esposito, and … Continue reading →

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Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Travel, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 10 Comments

More downloads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the  Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422. Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202. Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas – Heidegger and the Thinking of Place

Posted on March 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas’s book Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being is now out.  Endorsements from Andrew Benjamin, Julian Young and me. The idea of place–topos–runs through Martin Heidegger’s thinking almost from the very start. It … Continue reading →

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Heidegger’s handwriting

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Came across this again (it’s mentioned in Speaking Against Number). Something very interesting in seeing the handwriting of people you’d only before read in print. With Foucault and Lefebvre I’ve seen originals in the archives; with Heidegger at the Heidegger museum … Continue reading →

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Heidegger translations forthcoming

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartelden

As well as the new translation of the Contributions to Philosophy, which I’ve mentioned before, Indiana University Press also has listed forthcoming translations of The Event (Gesamtausgabe 71) and the Bremen and Freiburg Lectures (GA79). The first of these is … Continue reading →

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More free papers

Posted on February 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site: Elden, S. Heidegger’s Animals. Continental Philosophy Review. 2006;39:273-91. Elden, S. Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle. In: Bourg, J. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual … Continue reading →

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