Category Archives: People

Roundup

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Paul Ennis has a post about his nearly completed book Continental Realism (nice title, and interesting t.o.c.) Graham Harman has a fascinating post about reading, note-taking, planning, writing and editing here. I don’t work much like this – for a start, I … Continue reading →

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Descartes on Hobbes

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Hobbes didn’t impress everyone. From a letter Descartes wrote to Mersenne on Hobbes. unless I am very much mistaken, he is aiming to make his reputation at my expense, and by dishonest means (The Correspondence Volume I, 100). He then … Continue reading →

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Fanmail

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

If this letter from me is untimely, you may punish me by not replying: I shall be satisfied simply to have expressed my feelings towards you. I think I have read most of your works, partly in separate volumes and … Continue reading →

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Academic labours

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

A major piece of editing and translating work is Thomas Hobbes, The Correspondence Volume I: 1622-1659, and Volume II: 1660-1679, edited by Noel Malcolm, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. The correspondence was previously only available in part, but Malcolm gathered all … Continue reading →

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Hobbes

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been without decent internet in the past few days. So England lost the football, but they won the cricket again, to take a 3-0 lead in a five match series against Australia. I’ve also been reading lots of Hobbes. This … Continue reading →

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New Foucault journal

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.materialifoucaultiani.org

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Cartographica – new editor required

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Cartographica requires a new editor – Jeremy Crampton is coming to the end of his term. CALL FOR EDITOR Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization   Applications are invited for the editorship of Cartographica. The University of … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming Jakob von Uexküll translation

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Jakob von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (together with his A Theory of Meaning) is coming out in a new English translation. Details here and here Von Uexküll is probably best known as someone who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Jakob von Uexküll, Martin Heidegger, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Another Althusius passage

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Even though these heads, prefects, and rectors of provinces recognise the supreme magistrate of the realm [summum regni magistratum] as their superior, from whom their administration and power are conceded, nevertheless they have rights of sovereignty in their territory [jura … Continue reading →

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Johannes Althusius, Politica

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been reading Johannes Althusius, Politica – a text originally published in 1603. I’ve become more and more convinced that there are some really important works between Bodin and Botero and the more familiar 17th century thinkers of Grotius, Hobbes, … Continue reading →

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