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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Carl Schmitt

Saturday, September 30, 2006

I’ve posted an updated version of the “Carl Schmitt in English” bibiliography here. In addition to being better organized and completing a number of incomplete entries, it also has a number of ‘previously unknown’ translations listed. Below, a poem by Schmitt and an extract of a letter on the poem of Schuldt (who?) to G.L. [...]

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Reprints

Thursday, September 28, 2006

If anyone who reads this has experience with getting reprint permissions for the purpose of assembling an edited collection, I’d be interested in speaking to you. Also, if there is anyone out there who likes to translate German for fun and has an interest (why would you be reading this otherwise?) in political theory, it’d [...]

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Proposal (draft)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

For those who care about such things – and I believe they are few and far between – a draft of my dissertation proposal is available here (in PDF). Standard disclaimers apply: don’t cite it and don’t present it as your own, but, otherwise, do whatever you like with it.

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Envy

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

With a great deal of envy, graduate students in North America – except those, of course, who think that attending the Ivy League connotes a degree of relative superiority – look to England and Australia as wonderful, wonderful places to study: a doctorate (they even sound better: “D.Phil”!) takes between three and four years; you [...]

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Cataloguing

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Among the contributions to political theory and practice that one can inscribe to the French aristocracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are the discoveries of the social, the political, and the political function of history. That is, they discovered that history was not simply the retelling of the great deeds of kings; [...]

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Anti-King

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

In A History of Modern France, by Alfred Cobban, a book that presents a general introduction to, well, the history of France, which is to say that it moves quickly, skips details and doesn’t provide citations, the following is found: In 1733 Augustus, Elector of Saxony and elective King of Poland, died, leaving as his [...]

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David Held – “Reframing Global Governance”

Monday, September 18, 2006

October 19, 2006 Lecture 7:00-8:30 p.m. with reception to follow Fenn Lounge Carleton University David Held Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science London School of Economics Reframing Global Governance: Apocalypse Soon or Reform Seating is limited; contact the Political Science Department for information. David Held will explore one of the greatest paradoxes of our time; [...]

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Naming

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

I’ve adopted the term “aristocratic political theory” to describe eighteenth century French thought that opposed itself to both the king and the bourgeoisie. Montesquieu, of course, is the most famous example, but there are a number of other people we’d want to include in this list: Fenelon, Saint-Simon, Boulainvilliers, and Mably, at the very least, [...]

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Upcoming Intellectual Events

Friday, September 8, 2006

With the start of the new academic year, universities and departments are slowly advertising their speaker series. As is often the case, universities in the same area have rather similar lists of speaks – the academic version of a world tour, I suppose. So far, Trent University, in Peterborough, has announced the most interesting series, [...]

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Media Ethics

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Yesterday it was announced that Steve Irwin’s death and the stinger of a stingray was caught on film, apparently a policy that Irwin himself had demanded from his film crews: film regardless of what happens. The problem, now, concerns what to do with these tapes which do, in fact, show him encountering a stingray, the [...]

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