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David Harvey lecture

Posted on August 30, 2010 by stuartelden

The text of David Harvey’s lecture to the ASA from earlier this month is here A lot of it will be familiar to anyone who’s heard him speak on this topic recently, but this is the first time I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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The Later Heidegger

Posted on August 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Paul Ennis links to his review of Lee Braver’s Heidegger’s Later Writings here. You can find the official site for the book here. I’d not paid much attention to this when it came out – partly due to not having Heidegger … Continue reading →

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Quentin Skinner interview

Posted on August 30, 2010 by stuartelden

While looking for something else, I came across this interview with Quentin Skinner. It’s a remarkably open and at times self-critical assessment of his trajectory and how he does the kind of work he does. While eight years old, it’s … Continue reading →

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Harvey on Hardtalk

Posted on August 28, 2010 by stuartelden

David Harvey interviewed on BBC’s Hardtalk programme here.

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‘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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