Month: February 2015
The real american exceptionalism – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition
Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault
Some people accuse certain journals of just being fanzines for Derrida or Heidegger or whomever. Well this is an actual fanzine for Foucault circa almost 40 years ago.
Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find the original. Dits et écrits describes the publication this way – “The Circabook is a sort of campus polycopié” – a handout or pamphlet, a mimeograph, effectively a fanzine. I could find no library that has a copy. Well now I have a scanned copy, thanks to the kindness of a reader. And it’s available to download here – an interesting document and the only English source of this interview.
Some other hard-to-find pieces are collected here; a few I’m still looking for are listed here.
PEA Soup: Black Radical Liberalism (by Charles Mills)
I cite: Zizek on Syriza
Ricoeur on Moral Religion: A Hermeneutics of Life // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
Jonas, McCann and Thomas – Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction
Rocco Rubini reviews Roberto Esposito – Critical Inquiry
Looks to be an interesting book (I’ve been underwhelmed thus far by Esposito’s project): Rocco Rubini reviews Roberto Esposito – Critical Inquiry.
Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)
Stuart’s points below about why he is not (yet) speaking/writing on the Black Notebooks are helpful for understanding his own development and work. For myself, I hesitate only because I feel that anything I would write on the new stuff would only have the vague sense of ‘antisemitism is bad’ and ‘Heidegger saying that is equally bad’–which is not worth the translational work. Yes, a priori, that means it true I think that his notions of historicity and temporality from the 20s and elsewhere don’t lead to the content of what we had more-than-subtle hints he wrote in private during the 30s, 40s, and probably later. Only the Heideggerian priests held anything else, but it’s been so long since all the stuff from Sartre, Derrida, Lyotard and so many others assuming his antisemitism for anyone to be shocked. Yes there are those—with the Black Notebooks in view, it makes it easier—trying to use his moral debasement to back us into a certain liberalism (Wolin comes to mind), but that’s a false choice. As the writers above have noted, along with Elden at crucial points longs before this.
As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK and USA, and a few people have suggested I write something. I’ve always said ‘no’.
Heidegger has been a crucial thinker to my work. My PhD examined the relation between Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault; the book that came from it was Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History. The book, as the title suggests, looked principally at Heidegger and Foucault, though much of the Nietzsche material was reworked into other chapters. It took seriously Foucault’s claim that Heidegger was, for him, ‘the essential philosopher’. Both the PhD and book included a chapter that looked at how Heidegger read Nietzsche and Hölderlin during the Nazi…
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Jean-Luc Nancy defends Black Notebooks editor in Faust
There has been something of a dust-up where the editor of the Black Notebooks has been attacked by Friedrich Wilhelm von Herrmann, Heidegger’s last private assistant and chief editor of the Gesamtausgabe. Peter Trawny last year published Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung (2014), which is anything but an anti-Heideggerian screed. Hermman claims Trawney is merely attacking Heidegger as part of the times–rather than, you know, reacting to some rather horrific prose. Nancy had previously discussed the Black Notebooks last summer here (thanks to Marie-Eve Morin and others on FB for the links) and in this piece (German on top; French original [with some errors] below) defends Trawney against the claim that he is unphilosophical, etc.
PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR 