Category Archives: Gottfried Leibniz

Leibniz and Nijmegen

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

I should add that Leibniz gives me a perfect ‘Hello Cleveland!’ moment for next week’s lecture in Nijmegen. The talk I will give with be a developed and updated version of ‘The Emergence of Territory’ lecture I gave in Erlangen in July.

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Leibniz

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Anyone who’s been reading this blog recently knows that I’ve been working on Leibniz, and little else, for the past few weeks. I can’t stress enough the difficulties I’m encountering in this work.  Part of the problem is that – … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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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

Speaking of Leibniz…

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Good little story about him here.

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Gratton on sovereignty

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton replies to two of my recent posts here and here. Both replies have great titles. The first is a discussion of the canon. Peter writes  As someone who wrote an entire chapter on Boulainviller, I’m happy to change … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Gottfried Leibniz, Jean Bodin, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Walter Ralegh | 3 Comments

Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacques Derrida, Jane Bennett, Jean Bodin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Robert Filmer, The Birth of Territory, Thomas Hobbes | 2 Comments

Hiking and Reading

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

The weekend was spent hiking with Susan and friends in the Peak District, around the village of Edale. On Saturday, we went up to the plateau of Kinder Scout (and got absolutely drenched); and on Sunday up Mam Tor and … Continue reading →

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