Category Archives: People

Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence – first chapter

Posted on November 21, 2012 by stuartelden

A draft translation of the first chapter of Latour’s new book is available at his website (via ANTHEM).

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Books received

Posted on November 19, 2012 by stuartelden

People seem to like these posts, so here’s another pile of books received – the most recent volume from Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe (volume 83), which is seminars on Plato, Aristotle and Augustine; some books by Jean Gottmann and a Festschrift on his … Continue reading →

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Michael Dillon – Deconstructing International Politics

Posted on November 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Mick Dillon’s long-awaited Deconstructing International Politics is coming out in December with the Interventions series at Routledge. Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers … Continue reading →

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Agamben – The Highest Poverty

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have a page up for Agamben’s The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. You can read a draft of the preface here. The Highest Poverty is IV, 1 in the Homo Sacer series. Nicholas Dahmann made a … Continue reading →

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Bill Martin scholar session audio

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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Big books received

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading →

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