Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

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 Still seminars, unpublished writings and notebooks to come.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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Heidegger – Contributions to Philosophy new translation

This is really important news in Heidegger studies. The Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) is coming out in a new translation. It will be out with Indiana University Press in April 2012, with the translation made by Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela … Continue reading

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Heidegger – Being and Truth

Heidegger’s lectures collected in volume 36/37 of the Gesamtausgabe have been translated as Being and Truth. There is some unpleasant stuff here – these are the lectures delivered at the time Heidegger was rector of Freiburg. Miguel de Beistegui provides a review here.

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New Heidegger journal

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – first issue now out. Pieces by Thomas Sheehan, Richard Polt and Andrew Mitchell, among others.

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Foucault – Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

As exciting as the English version of The Courage of Truth is, the real news in Foucault studies this year is surely the publication of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. I gave this an initial, fairly fast, read on … Continue reading

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Heidegger – The Concept of Time

From the Continuum blog:   Furthering still our long-standing series of Heidegger translations, we have recently published The Concept of Time, translated by Ingo Farin (University of Tasmania), which any Heideggerian will no doubt want to add to his or her … Continue reading

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