Category Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading David Farrell Krell on Derrida and our Animal Others

David Farrell Krell has long been one of my favourite commentators on Heidegger and Nietzsche. He is the principal translator of Heidegger’s multi-volume book on Nietzsche, as well as Basic Writings and some other texts, wrote the great book Daimon … Continue reading

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When did Foucault lecture on Nietzsche?

Until recently, there were only two texts by Foucault explicitly on Nietzsche. 1. ‘Nietzsche, Freud, Marx’, Cahiers de Royaumont, VI, 1967, pp. 183-200. (The note in Dits et écrits says this was from a symposium at Royaumont in July 1964.) 2. ‘Nietzsche, … Continue reading

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MANCEPT workshop on Methods in Political Theory

A call for papers for a workshop as part of the Tenth MANCEPT Annual Conference: 4th – 6th September 2013. During the 1960s and 70s the methodological orthodoxy of enquiries into the study of political thought became the target of historical critique. Dissatisfied with … Continue reading

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Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality

The next volume of the Stanford University Press Nietzsche translations will be Volume 8, Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality, translated by Adrian del Caro. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. Read the full Preface … Continue reading

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Books received

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Books received

Mainly in recompense for some review work for OUP for the Shakespeare project, but also an early Heidegger lecture course, Tim Cresswell’s Geographic Thought, the new issue of Society and Space, a journal I didn’t know before called CRIOS (Critica degli … Continue reading

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Books received

Three volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Stefano Guzzini’s The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? and the ‘Speculative Geographies’ volume of The State.

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Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I’ve been busy (too much so for blogging, sadly) with work on a volume on Nietzsche and political thought, which I am co-editing. More details when the publication tome comes closer. One thing I’ve noticed is…

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Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know

Graham Burchell’s transiton of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know is scheduled for publication in June 2013 (via Foucault News). You can read my review of the French text at Berfrois. Here’s the publisher blurb: This volume gives us … Continue reading

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Heidegger and Nietzsche

In 2004 I attended a conference in Heidegger’s hometown of Meßkirch. The conference was held in the town’s Schloß which had a Heidegger-museum in the basement, his grave was in the local cemetery and there were signs for the Martin-Heidegger-Weg that would … Continue reading

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