Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

A book reading meme

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House. I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger’s Glasses … Continue reading

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Lectures on Heidegger – videos

A series of lectures on Heidegger – Holger Zaborowski, William McNeill, Richard Capobianco, Richard Polt, Theodore Kisiel, Charles Bambach… thanks to Paul Harrison for the link.

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Three good days in London

Three good days in London. Susan and I had a nice walk through Holland Park (easily my favourite park in London); visited the St. Paul’s occupation; had a great evening at our friends’ birthday party; saw ‘The Ides of March’ … Continue reading

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Babich and Richardson on Heidegger

Interesting discussion between Babette Babich and William J. Richardson on Heidegger’s Being and Time. There is some discussion at the beginning on the relation between Aristotle and Heidegger and a brief comment on Brentano’s influence. via Enowning.

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Two Heidegger Reviews

NDPR has reviews of two new Heidegger translations – Introduction to Philosophy — Thinking and Poetizing and Country Path Conversations. In the first, Katherine Withy rightly notes the slender volume and its meager rewards – the English translation is less … Continue reading

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The last Heidegger lecture course

Well, the last course to be published. Vol 32 of the Gesamtausgabe. Still seminars, unpublished writings and notebooks to come. The course is from summer 1932, so a politically charged moment, and is on Anaximander and Parmenides, titled ‘The Beginning of … Continue reading

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Heidegger, Cassirer (& Fink) at Davos

Finally got round to reading Peter E. Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. It’s an interesting book, on a key moment in European intellectual history. One thing thought was interesting was that Eugen Fink attended the debate – I knew … Continue reading

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Buck-Morss, Hegel and Haiti

Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History is a remarkable book. The core of it originally appeared as ‘Hegel and Haiti’ in Critical Inquiry. (That link takes you directly to the piece, though I’m not sure it should.) The essay is, … Continue reading

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“Sovereignty, Territory and the Imperium” – review essay by Karena Shaw

An interesting review essay of John Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty; my Terror and Territory, and Ronnie D. Lipschutz’s The Constitution of Imperium has just appeared in Geopolitics (subscription required). Written by Karena Shaw of the School of Environmental Studies at the … Continue reading

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Speaking Against Number price reduction

My 2006 book on Heidegger, Speaking Against Number, has been reduced in price at last. It has been over £50 since publication, and a paperback, though initially promised, never appeared. It is now available, in the UK at least, for … Continue reading

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