Stuart,
Thanks for informing us about the book. I'll look forward to reading it.
best wishes,
Barry
At 08:50 PM 25/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
>You may be interested to note that my book, Mapping the Present: Heidegger,
>Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (Continuum, 2001) is now out.
>It's available in a very expensive hardback, but also a paperback edition.
>Amazon.co.uk have the paperback, as do bol.com, but amazon.com doesn't seem
>to yet. Here's the blurb from the back cover, and the two endorsements:-
>
>In a late interview, Foucault suggested that
>Heidegger was for him the "essential philosopher".
>Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present
>assesses the relationship between these two
>thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and
>history. It suggests that space and history need to
>be rethought, and combined as a spatial history,
>rather than as a history of space. In other words,
>space should become not merely an object of
>analysis, but a tool of analysis.
>The first half of the book concentrates on
>Heidegger: from the early occlusion of space,
>through the politically charged readings of
>Nietzsche and Hlderlin, to the later work on art,
>technology and the polis which accord equal status
>to issues of spatiality. Foucault's work is then
>rethought in the light of the analysis of Heidegger,
>and the project of a spatial history established
>through re-readings of his works on madness and
>discipline.
>
>
>"Offers a powerful reinterpretation of Foucault and reveals the frequently
>neglected significance of the work of Heidegger to Foucault's intellectual
>project. Mapping the Present provides analytically rigorous yet accessible
>reinterpretations of relevant works of both Foucault and Heidegger and
>demonstrates the crucial importance of spatial relations in the exercise of
>modern forms of power."
>--Barry Smart
>
>"A marvellous book - critical and generous, clear and sophisticated, wise
>and witty. For those interested in the project of a spatial history, Elden
>has opened up wholly new ways of thinking about (and working with) Heidegger
>and Foucault that are alert to the philosophical and theoretical
>complexities of their writings and to the political and ethical
>responsibilities of a history of the present."
>--Derek Gregory
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Stuart
>
>Dr Stuart Elden
>Lecturer in Politics
>Department of Politics and International Studies
>University of Warwick
>Coventry
>CV4 7AL, UK
>
>+44 (0)2476 523303
>
>
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/PAIS/staff/elden.htm