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Heidegger on Hegel and Schelling

Klostermann have news of a volume of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe in preparation for 2011 publication here. Volume 86, entitled Seminare: Hegel – Schelling, it’s projected to be 936 pages, which might well be the longest yet – GA16 was just over … Continue reading →

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Koselleck and Schmitt

The new issue of Political Theory has an interesting piece on Reinhart Koselleck‘s notion of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) and the relation this has to Carl Schmitt’s work. I quite like Koselleck’s work – or at least the basic idea behind … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory Miliband Lecture

Ralph Miliband series on the restructuring of World Power War in the borderlands Derek Gregory Professor Gregory discusses the evolving character of conflicts in the borderlands of former empires and the blurring of the conceptual borders of war itself. Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk Now cover

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A busy week

Gave a workshop on publishing with graduate students in geography at University of Washington on Monday, plus a few follow-up meetings. I was invited to come to a class in the Geopolitics course at UW, where the students had been … Continue reading →

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David Livingstone on Reading Kant’s Geography

A moment of Kantian enlightenment! In a splendid, interdisciplinary set of interrogations, the nature and significance of Immanuel Kant’s geography is brought into full light for the very first time. This remarkable work of retrieval thus enlightens, at once, Kant’s … Continue reading →

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Gratton on the world and calculation

Responding to my comments on the RPA, Peter Gratton offers his own thoughts on the conference and the notion of the world here; and then on the question of calculation here. He does the latter through some quotes from Dominique … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey – Hegel or Spinoza

Pierre Macherey‘s Hegel ou Spinoza is coming out in English translation in late 2011, with University of Minnesota Press. The translation is by Sue Ruddick of Department of Geography at University of Toronto. Really great to see this come to … Continue reading →

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Roundup – King Lear, David Harvey, Medieval Cartography

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has an interesting post on teaching King Lear here. Lear is part of Chapter Eight of my territory book, and I know the section on it is too long. It will be difficult to cut it. I … Continue reading →

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