Category Archives: Martin Heidegger

Incomplete Editions and References

In Matthew Stewart’s very good account of Leibniz and Spinoza, The Courtier and the Heretic (Yale UP, 2005), there is a note in the bibliography that The standard, reference edition of Leibniz’s collected works is that of the Berlin Akademie. … Continue reading

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Heidegger and Cassirer

An interesting looking book on Heidegger and Cassirer just out, beginning with their 1929 encounter in Davos, but it looks like it goes a way beyond this. Details here. Great cover photo too.

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Gratton on Heidegger, and the Beiträge

Peter Gratton’s response to the Heidegger posts is thoughtful and balanced. He is surely right that any book on the 30s would have to deal with the Nazi question in a way that would dominate the rest of the story. … Continue reading

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More on Heidegger in the 20s and 30s

Graham responds to my earlier post on Heidegger here. I don’t think it’s as much of a disagreement as he thinks. Basically there seem to be three issues. – Graham wants a biography for that period, and says that the … Continue reading

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Heidegger in the 1920s and 1930s

Graham Harman has a post here about Heidegger’s Marburg years. He suggests that a biography just focusing on those years – 1923-1928 – would be fascinating for all sorts of reasons. The reasons are all good, although I’d suggest that the … Continue reading

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Roundup – Heidegger, Mièville, Cycle Maps and Badiou

A new book on Heidegger, space and sculpture is coming out. Details here (thanks to Paul Ennis at Another Heidegger Blog for the tip). And I note that Being and Truth, a translation of the lectures from 1933 and 1934 … Continue reading

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New Heidegger books

Continuum are publishing a translation of Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression – details here. That’s volume 59 of the Gesamtausgabe. Klostermann have announced that the next two volumes of the Gesamtausgabe to be published will be volumes 74 and 78. … Continue reading

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Schmitt

Critical Animal has a discussion of Schmitt and Heidegger here, beginning from my Radical Philosophy piece on Carl Schmitt. The discussion doesn’t directly engage with my reading of Schmitt, and I appreciate very much that it has sparked some thoughts, … Continue reading

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Forthcoming Jakob von Uexküll translation

Jakob von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (together with his A Theory of Meaning) is coming out in a new English translation. Details here and here Von Uexküll is probably best known as someone who is … Continue reading

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In praise of Macquarrie and Robinson

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton have posts up reporting on the news that there will be a new translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time. This is a revision of the Joan Stambaugh translation that SUNY published, done by Dennis … Continue reading

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