Category Archives: People

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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Leibniz on Fossils

Posted on August 21, 2010 by stuartelden

In The Shorter Leibniz Texts, edited by Lloyd Strickland, there are a few interesting excerpts from Leibniz’s writings on fossils. (See also Strickland’s translations of Leibniz site here.) Some of these come from the Protegaea, which was published in a bi-lingual … Continue reading →

Posted in Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Quentin Meillassoux, The Space of the World | 1 Comment

Hardt on Foucault

Posted on August 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Michael Hardt reviews Foucault’s 82-83 and 83-84 lecture courses – Le gouvernement de soi et des autres and Le courage de la vérité – in the latest New Left Review. Find it here – subscribers only. Most of the first half of the review … Continue reading →

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Incomplete Editions and References

Posted on August 19, 2010 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Eugen Fink, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri Lefebvre, Immanuel Kant, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Posted on August 18, 2010 by stuartelden

An interesting looking conference – “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods”, March 11-2 2011, George Washington University.  Jane Bennett is the keynote. Details here.

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Society and Space – interviews

Posted on August 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Over the years the journal has run a number of interviews with prominent theorists and philosophers. Some of these include Anthony Giddens, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Edward Said, Alain Badiou, Michael Goodchild (1999 and 2009), and John Urry. There have also … Continue reading →

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Locke, land and coercion

Posted on August 15, 2010 by stuartelden

From Crooked Timber The standard Lockean case for (propertarian) libertarianism rests on the (universally false) assumption that an appropriation of land leaves “enough and as good” for anyone else. As long as land can be stolen from people who are … Continue reading →

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