Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

Anachronic Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Georges Canguilhem, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Five free downloads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve uploaded the pdfs of these five papers. I’ll put another five up when I have the chance. This page has the complete list of all the things I know are available free online. Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Cycling, Martin Heidegger, Novels read, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

A book reading meme

Posted on November 12, 2011 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gottfried Leibniz, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin Heidegger, Peter Gratton, Umberto Eco, Wu Ming | 2 Comments

Lectures on Heidegger – videos

Posted on November 7, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 29, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

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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