Category Archives: Gottfried Leibniz

Justin Smith – Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking forward to Justin Smith’s Divine Machines book on Leibniz for a while. I previously mentioned it here in relation to Glenn Hartz’s book Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals; and also provided a link when John Protevi interviewed Smith. … Continue reading →

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New books

Posted on May 23, 2011 by stuartelden

A whole big pile of books arrived over the last few months while I’ve been away. Some of them are ones I have chapters in; one I endorsed; most are ones I asked for in recompense for review work; some … Continue reading →

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Fossils talk, and revised abstract

Posted on March 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Four weeks ago I posted the abstract of the talk I will be giving tomorrow at the Humanities Research Centre here at ANU. That abstract was written at time when I had a vague sense of what I was going … Continue reading →

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Harman on Leibniz and Heidegger

Posted on March 17, 2011 by stuartelden

In the Cultural Studies Review here.

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More on the history of philosophy and geography

Posted on March 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Justin Smith (author of the Divine Machines book on Leibniz that is keenly anticipated) has a very interesting response to the Pasnau letter on the history of philosophy here (via New APPS). There are further responses at the Leiter Reports blog … Continue reading →

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Reading about fossils

Posted on March 4, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been spending the last week, as expected, reading about fossils. This has taken me through Aristotle, Georgius Agricola, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Hooke, Niels Stensen, Benoît de Maillet, Leibniz, Buffon, Voltaire, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, Kant and Charles Lyell. Some of … Continue reading →

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Fossils: Age, World, Relation

Posted on March 1, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the title of the talk I’ll be giving at ANU in four weeks time. The Humanities Research Centre theme for this year is ‘The World and World-Making in Humanities and the Arts’. The draft abstract follows:- What do fossils … Continue reading →

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Protevi interviews Smith on Leibniz

Posted on February 2, 2011 by stuartelden

I’d mentioned Justin Smith’s forthcoming book Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life before. John Protevi has now interviewed the author here. As well as the obvious Leibniz and life sciences interest, the interview should also entice people working on evolution … Continue reading →

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Another Leibniz

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

I’m continuing to read and think on Leibniz, as a parallel interest to other things I’m doing. I’ve just read Glenn A. Hartz, Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals (Routledge, 2007; paperback 2010). From the book’s publicity Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was … Continue reading →

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More editing

Posted on January 10, 2011 by stuartelden

Another day spent editing chapters for the Sloterdijk book, with some work on the front matter and my introductory chapter. I’ve now given initial comments on all but one of the chapters I have. Also some minor copyediting queries for … Continue reading →

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