Browsing Archive: July, 2010

Kafka Unpublished

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Literature and History

This news story about some unseen Kafka manuscripts points to a real problem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10682482 . An expert is being allowed to look at this unpublished work in order to help a judge rule over the ownership of the manuscripts. It seems very wrong that privately owned manuscripts can be kept secret. Even if the documents belong to a private individual the writings contained could surely be made public. Scholars may have no access to potentially important work ...

Trying to write about ...

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Deleuze and Badiou

I am trying to write about something that has preoccupied me for a number of years. This is the relation between Deleuze and Badiou. Their differences have been a major focus for recent debates over the future of philosophy. Their have been sustained and sometimes polemic treatments of Deleuze’s work which follow Badiou in alleging the neglect of the actual in favour of the virtual, the political and scientific in favour of the artistic, and the spatial in favour of the temporal. Resp...