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Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University +'connoisseur of the gobbledygook.' Self-positing since the '70s. All opinions belong to my 'I think.'

Cincinnati, OH
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Gabe Gottlieb
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Check out my essay on Fichte over at @aeonmag . My first piece of public philosophy. I offer a brief intro to Fichte and highlight some ideas that are, I think, worth developing more today. Many thanks to Nigel ( @philosophybites ) for his editorial support!
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On freedom and the limits of agency: the philosophy of Fichte | Aeon Essays

Inspired by Kant, Fichte launched a radical philosophical system based on subjectivity and aspiring to freedom for all

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Forgot about this. One of the greatest tweets of all time.
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I'm sorry but Spinoza's God does not love you.
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Kant's copy of Baumgarten's Metaphysica, the textbook for his lectures on metaphysics. His marginal notes are simply absurd, but amazing. He's clearly gone beyond the bounds of what is reasonable.
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Marianna Najman-Franks, a student at Barnard and the daughter of philosopher Paul Franks, recently discovered Spinoza's death mask. So freaking nuts. Read about it here:
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Many Philosophy PhD students try to find a dissertation topic by finding a gap in the literature. I get it, but my best advice for you is to discover a first principle, deduce a priori the categories, space+time, external world, moral law + capitalism & the communist revolution.
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Dieter Henrich died today. He is arguably the most influential scholar of Post-Kantian philosophy in the 20th century. His work has shaped practically everyone's either directly or indirectly. I'll briefly highlight some of his contributions I value. 1/14
Philosoph Dieter Henrich mit 95 Jahren gestorben

Werk im Werden: Eines der ertragreichsten Leben in der deutschen Philosophie ist zu Ende gegangen. Zum Abschied von Dieter Henrich.

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Here's my brief take on the university. Universities are more like cities, than corporations. They are meant to support human flourishing. However, admin run them like corporations. Corporations are responsive to real or apparent trends in markets, not human flourishing. /1
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My University has made a grave mistake and promoted me to full professor.
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What I learned from this is that Tyler Cowen does not read 100+ books a year.
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Economist and bestselling author @tylercowen reads 100+ books a year. Here are 18 tips from him on how to read fast, read well, and read widely: 1) Cowen’s first rule of reading is as follows: You need not finish. He takes up books with great hope and no mercy, and when he is…
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Current state of my desk. I've got big plans to clean it up this coming year.
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How to teach Kant, people. This guy really knows his stuff.
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Finally getting the proper treatment! Let a thousand reading groups bloom!
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Tupac was 25 when he was killed. That's nuts. I was fretting about Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" at 25 as if it held the secrets to life and my own life depended on understanding every sentence. Probably should have been listening to more Pac.
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New intro textbook just hit the market. Great for PHIL 101 courses.
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Analytic Philosophy and Continetal Philosophy. Look, I don't make the rules.
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PhD and MD/PhD
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Nietzsche's not nihilistic.
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They've arrived! "Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right and Revolution." Really happy with the way this volume turned out - I think all the essays are great and I hope they help contribute to the development of a more nuanced picture of post-Kantian philosophy.
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We all know folks like Marcuse, Adorno, and Fromm attempted to bring Marx and psychoanalysis together. But, what brave soul is going to combine Marx and Cognitive Behavioral Theory?
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Yes, Rousseau said some stupid, racist, and sexist things, but, unlike Locke, he's not wrong about everything.
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸
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Who is the worst canonical political philosopher, and why is it Rousseau?
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The worst talk I ever saw was a Spivak talk. Incoherent, all over the place + she didn't let the organizer know she needed a screen. A student of hers attended. She ordered him around like a servant as he carried her laptop around to show her slides to the 150 ppl listening.
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@roopikarisam Or, as w/ Gayatri Spivak, no talk at all. I went to one where she was paid around $5000 (this was 15+ years ago, so more now) AND a first class ticket, and she literally said, "I have not prepared anything, but I'm happy to talk to you and take your questions about my work."
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I don't know what took him so long.
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Just noticed that Raymond Geuss's lectures on Marx from 2013 in Cambridge are online.
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Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 1/8

This is the last lecture series on Marxism given by Professor Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge in 2013.

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This is awful. Philosophy has been at the center of higher education for thousands of years yet now it's marginalized like never before. I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but I don't think this bodes well for the future of humanity.
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Sadly, @UniKent has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. We perform well on all measures, including student recruitment. But smaller subjects have less clout and are easiest to cut. Help us shout out our value to the uni! They need to hear
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Work on what interests you. Few will read your work, none of it much matters & most of it will have an incredibly insignificant impact on the lives of others. If you're lucky, maybe a few will tweet about it for a day or two. We'll all die & few will be remembered. So it goes.
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This is cute: "from Kant to Hegel and beyond." As if there's philosophy after Hegel.
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The Frankfurt School has finally sold out. Adorno is spinning in his grave.
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The question "What is the value of the humanities?" is the wrong question. It's value is plural & too many good answers have been given to rehearse. The right question is "Why don't people care about the humanities." It's the economy, stupid. Capitalism.
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Socrates c. 400 BC:
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Just agreed to take over the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Fichte, which Dan Breazeale wrote. I'll submit some minor revisions over the summer and will aim to submit an overhaul a couple years down the road. Excited to contribute to this invaluable resource!
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My German Idealism course for the fall just got cancelled. They're telling me it's because of "low enrollment," but I'm blaming cancel culture. They're afraid I'll complete the system.
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Interesting new book by Nicolas de Warren (Cambridge, 2023).
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Paul Guyer's new book "Kant's Impact on Moral Philosophy" is quite comprehensive: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Bradley, Green, Royce, Moore, Foot, McDowell, Rawls, Nagel, Hermann, presumably Korsgaard too. Remember him mentioning it would include Habermas but don't see signs of him.
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Asked my class what kind of social injustices they are concerned about, if any. After a long silence, a brave student spoke up and said that she doesn't think Taylor Swift deserves to be Time's Person of the Year.
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This is one of the best books on German Idealism, probably the one I go back to the most & one everyone should read. It just occurred to me it was never printed as a paperback. Nuts. That must say something about how well it sold. Shame on all of you who did not purchase a copy!
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I see. Bill Ackman's daughter became a Lukácsian at Harvard. It all makes sense now. Instead of celebrating and reading "History and Class Consciousness" with her, he's trying to destroy higher education. Got it.
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Just signed a contract to co-edit (w/ Ben Crowe) a volume on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre for SUNY Press. First of its kind in English. This is an important work influenced by the rupture with Schelling - also introduced the concept of facticity into German philosophy.
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After listening to this I've lost a ton of respect for Derrida.
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Derrida on Seinfeld
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Charles Mills is gone. I know a lot of folks are looking online for a copy of The Racial Contract + looking at their bank account. Today's my birthday, and I much prefer giving gifts (esp. books) than receiving them. Purchasing five copies - DM me and I'll send you one.
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I want to read so many things that are not the things I should be reading so I just won't read anything. That's dialectics.
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A translation of Klaus Vieweg's biography of Hegel is coming out in December with Stanford. Looking forward to reading it, but not a fan of that cover. Sorry.
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Philosophy as a second major is a no brainer. Should be required, as far as I'm concerned.
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Just in case the a priori/a posterori distinction confuses you, my daughter (5mo) is here to help.
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Family fun.
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Really love these doodles by Karl Marx - they are from a manuscript page.
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Teaching a course called "Responses to Liberalism" that I'm excited about. Looking at different critiques of liberal rights and alternative models that have a focus on rights and recognition. These are the books we'll be working with. Should be fun.
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F. H. Jacobi - one of the most underrated philosophers of the 18th Century.
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Super hot take: Plato's "Republic."
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what's your (non-right wing, too easy) book that you think would be better if it didn't exist? that book that induces so much false confidence in its readers that it feels like people who read it know less than they would have if they didn't (because now they 'know' bullshit)?
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In my evals, students often complain about the readings being too long - this past semester, one student (a major) complained about me making them read entire books rather than selections. Doubling down in the fall. Kids got to learn how to push through and read a goddamn book.
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Best book ever written on Kant?
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hegel is bad. or he's good. whatever will get more likes.
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pornography is bad. or it’s good. whatever will get more likes.
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When an antisemite says this about Hegel, who already is recognized as a central figure in the Western canon, it can't be good. #altrightHegelian
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1. Excited to share the book cover of Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which James A. Clarke and I have edited. We commissioned Mitchell Nolte to create this digital painting.
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Had to tell my student to stop mis-gendering Spinoza's god, or rather, stop gendering God. Seriously. It's either "God, or nature," people. "It," is acceptable, I guess, but the "he" is getting out of hand!
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@Left_Hegelian Well, depends on the reading of Hegel. The thing is that Hegel's conception of government is not what has influenced progressives.
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Going to London in a few days for 4 months. These are the books I've lined up to bring for some projects I'm working on. My wife, who by all accounts is a wonderful woman, says it's way too many. Thought I'd get a second opinion. Is this too many books for 4 months? Poll ⏬️
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What do you think Freud's single greatest contribution is? I suspect I know what many folks will say, but let's see.
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J. M. Bernstein - made Hegel make sense. Year long course on the Phenomenology of Spirit. Changed my life.
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Who is the best professor you had when you were a student, and why?
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Look what I got in the mail today! This project started before the pandemic and took way longer to complete than expected. Glad it's out! The 1804 WL is nuts. Hopefully the essays in this volume will help some of you masochists out there make some sense of it! Contents below. /1
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Coming April 2024 - new translations of his philosophical works, poetry and novels. It will be great to have this all in one volume and by the same translator. ToC below.
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Hume is right. The so-called "self" is “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.”
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Continental philosopher more people should read? Cornelius Castoriadis What do you think?
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The nuttiest thing in the history of philosophy is that Kant approached J. G. Hamann about co-writing a children's book about Newtonian physics & this was after Hamann went off the deep (but brilliant) end by abandoning the Enlightenment. If only Hamann had been more agreeable!
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Definitely need a first edition of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." Little disappointed that after spending 43K I've still got to pay $40 for shipping.
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Owen Ware's new Cambridge Elements "Kant on Freedom" is currently free to download. Owen's work is always excellent and exceptionally clear. Check it out!
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Kant loves to dress up Christian ideas in euphemistic secular terms - his best work in this vein is calling original sin "radical evil." Brilliant, Kant.
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Don't trust the markets. Investing my entire savings in Fichte coin.
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Nietzsche shaved. Now he just looks like your average analytic philosopher.
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So do this mean Oxford will pull his "Very Short Introductions" on Hegel and Marx and commission someone who has a clue about these philosophers to write them? Long overdue.
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am I the last one to hear about the alleged Peter Singer harem
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Spinoza was my age when he died. I am pretty sure if I collected all me tweets, properly ordered them, called some propositions, some scholia and what not, they would rival his "Ethics." Just saying.
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Was looking up "oxymoron" in the dictionary and there was just a picture of this.
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Reading Kant's essay from 1754 on "Whether the Earth is Ageing," and it's wild. At times I feel like I'm reading Plato's Timeaus. So speculative. I'm curious about his sources. May have to look more into that.
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"Kant really sucks" - student
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I love it when people are like "look at all the books I read this year," but they didn't read any Fichte. Like, how am I supposed to take you seriously?
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The 80 books I read in 2023, and my ten favourites: Beauvoir • Carlyle • Collingwood • Ferrante • Hegel • Hill • Ilyenkov • James • Malabou • Volosinov
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I once read this philosopher, I wish I could remember his name, but I can't. It's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't recall it. Anyway, he thought morality was based in reason and was categorical, or something like that. Wasn't based in God's power - I know that for sure.
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The atheistic worldview is self-defeating because it cannot support an absolute standard for morality. Ethics is ultimately reduced to the opinions of those in power. Christianity asserts an absolute fixed standard of ethics and morality given, not by men, but by Almighty God.
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So close on this one. We just need to put together an index and then it's off to the printers.
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It's funny how philosophers often talk about perceiving some object, but I've literally never perceived "an object."
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Yes, Fichte hated the Enlightenment notion of reason, that's why he famously rejected Kant's critical philosophy.
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Happy Birthday, buddy! May all your spirit-seeing dreams come true!
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We all said goodbye to Lily today. She had been dealing with kidney disease and it had finally gotten the best of her. She was an amazing dog, one of the most loving and softest. She was always great with our daughters. We miss her terribly and life won't be the same without her.
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I'm planning to never become a famous philosopher. My biography would be boring af: "and then USPS delivered another book. He flipped through it, placed it on the bookshelf, and then continued to watch cartoons with his daughter while tweeting stupid jokes about German Idealism."
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Gabe Gottlieb
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3 years
I'm debating James Lindsay and his followers about Hegel - how's your memorial day going?
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Gabe Gottlieb
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3 years
Can we get a Twitter ban on all puns using Kant's name?
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5 months
Brand new entry on "Critical Theory" at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Robin Celikates and Jeffrey Flynn.
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Gabe Gottlieb
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9 months
On reading Kant.
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This is why I love Twitter. Problem of evil solved with flawless logic. Philosophers and theologians have been trying to figure this out for hundreds of years and this guy's finally done it.
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Capturing Christianity
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**Trigger Warning for atheists** The reason that God allows suffering is that God, being perfect, will only create a world that contains the greatest goods. The greatest goods are love-manifesting virtues like courage, forgiveness, and sacrifice. But notice: these goods cannot…
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Seen a lot of antisemitism on this site, but not had it directed at me or my posts until @RightHegelian decided to show us what it means, I guess, to be a right Hegelian. Nuts.
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2 years
Now think we should just call philosophy "conceptual engineering." Then our majors will be engineers and universities will certainly support our departments. Who wouldn't want to hire a conceptual engineer?
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2 years
Pretty sure it's fine to read J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series to my 3yo, since we've already started on Heidegger's "Being and Time."
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Jacob Blumenfeld's ( @Cominsitu ) book on property in German Idealism is forthcoming. Really excellent work that will be essential to discussions on the topic (h/t @siahpoosh_sina ).
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Pack up your bags folks! Moral Philosophy has been solved. We had a good run! Want to thank Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Benham and Mill, Nietzsche, Moore, Ayer, Williams, Parfit, Korsgaard and all the greats, except Heidegger - honestly you weren't much help.
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Reading this like it's a novel - so much more fun than the big German Idealism book. It's a page turner, for sure.
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"Fichte in Berlin" (McGill-Queen's) will be a nice edition to the growing Fichte literature & the first single-authored volume in English on the 1804 WL. Matthew, who studied with George di Giovanni, has a nice essay in my forthcoming edited volume on the 1804 WL as well.
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Well, shit. Looks like the logicians have discovered Fichte. Why people gotta make me work this hard. Who's goining to explain to me what the fuck is going on here? I mean, it looks cool. Open access:
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8 months
Reading Adorno while my kid watches cartoons. Destroying both of our minds.
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Started this monster of a book yesterday. Would be amazing if I finished it by the beginning of the semester (highly unlikely), but I think the end of the spring semester is reasonable (given other priorities). What's the over/under?
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I think Daniel Dennett would find the idea that he rest in peace an absolute howler.
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Humblebrag alert: both of my daughters have now as 1yos taken this book off the shelf, shown it to their mother, and said "Daddy."
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Who's afraid of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel?
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Deep insight into the mind of David Lynch.
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