Author: Peter Gratton
Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood (eds), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, is reviewed
by Rick Elmore here. The book is an excellent collection, one where each links up well with the other chapters to build an overall argument.
Foucault’s Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, L’ordre du discours – comparison of the two different versions | Progressive Geographies
Stuart Elden compares the two extant versions here.
Sam Talcott’s Book on Canguilhem is now out
Don’t read the publisher’s blurb (“fills a gap in the market”–the worst reason to buy a book, which means it just fills a gap in your bookcase forever) but the blurbs from the referees. With Stuart Elden’s book also out , this is the summer when Canguilhem finally gets some overdue love in English. (He was a major influence on Foucault and Derrida, among others, but of course a force in his own right.)
The 2019 Holberg Lecture by Laureate Paul Gilroy
is available as text and video (scroll down) here. An important text on race, ecology, and the future of the human.
Michael Marder’s Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics reviewed…
by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides at Phenomenological Reviews. Some interesting comments on classicists’ hesitance to take Heidegger’s work on the Greeks seriously.
Carl Schmitt books reviewed in LSE Review of Books
Joshua Smeltzer reviews Carl Schmitt, Perilous Futures: On Carl Schmitt’s Late Writings by Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis by Benjamin Schupmann here.
