Category Archives: People

‘P. Baldus’ and the ‘Monastic Peace’

Posted on August 27, 2010 by stuartelden

If the title of this post makes no sense, that’s not by chance. I’ve been spending the day tracking down some of Leibniz’s works, finding as many references as I can, and making a list of things to check at … Continue reading →

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‘Item is Destroyed’

Posted on August 27, 2010 by stuartelden

That’s the not terribly helpful note in the British Library catalogue for the 1864 Klopp edition of Leibniz’s Werke. Back when the British Library used to be in the British Museum, there was a catalogue entry for books that had … Continue reading →

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Millner on Soja

Posted on August 27, 2010 by stuartelden

I mentioned Ed Soja’s new book Seeking Spatial Justice a few posts back. There’s a review by Naomi Millner here.

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Foucault, The Courage of Truth

Posted on August 26, 2010 by stuartelden

In the post this morning, the typescript of Foucault’s final lecture course in English translation. This is The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II. It comes from the 1983-84 academic year, but all the lectures were … Continue reading →

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Other ambitious geography books

Posted on August 26, 2010 by stuartelden

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Of those made in ‘comments’, I think that several of them don’t fit what I was calling for. Ratzel is far too old, and Glacken (1967) and Tuan (1977) a bit older than I … Continue reading →

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Ambitious Geography Books

Posted on August 25, 2010 by stuartelden

I was thinking today about books by geographers, written in the last thirty years or so, that would stand as real testaments to what the discipline is about or what it can do. By this I’m meaning something other than … Continue reading →

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Texts in Contexts – Kant

Posted on August 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, there is an interesting review by Julian Wuerth of a new book for Kant scholars.  Eric Watkins (ed., tr.), Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials, Cambridge UP, 2009, 410pp., $27.99 (pbk), ISBN … Continue reading →

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The End of Foucault blog?

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Foucault blog, Jeremy discusses how he is putting it on hiatus. This is partly because of the work involved and partly because his interests are broader than simply Foucault (see the new Open Geography blog). I owe Jeremy … Continue reading →

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The Production of Jerusalem

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stuartelden

The Guardian has an interesting report about the new light railway being built in Jerusalem here. The last time I was there in 2009 there was a lot of work going on in Jaffa Street. The focus of the story is … Continue reading →

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New blog – Open Geography

Posted on August 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has a new blog – Open Geography, where “open is an adjective and a verb”… He’s already posted a few things on Wikileaks, Foucault and the ‘Ground Zero mosque’.

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