Wrote a little something for Mann’s 150th birthday, which is today. Alles Gute, Tommy!

Curb Your Enthusiasm A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.

"The basis of Schopenhauer’s ethics was a kind of solidarity of the suffering."

@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social reviews a new consideration of the oft-misunderstood German philosopher:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/Schopenhauer...

Curb Your Enthusiasm A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.

A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.

Morten Høi Jensen reviews:

“What better way to begin rebuilding our moral community than by greeting strangers as fellow sufferers? For this reason alone, the great pessimist’s ethics of compassion and solidarity is one we urgently need now.”

Curb Your Enthusiasm A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.

Thoughtful review of my book by Morten Høi Jensen for @commonwealmagazine.org

“One of the virtues of Bather Woods’s biography is that it encourages us to follow Schopenhauer’s pessimism through to the kernel of compassion at its center.”

Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change today.

Liverpool people! I’ll be in conversation with Saul Leslie next Tuesday 21st April about his fantastic debut novel at Waterstones Liverpool. Tickets on sale now at the link. All welcome!

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Liam Shaw · Bring me bimagrumab: Insulin Wars As biochemical methods became more precise, the eventual identification of the magical substance, insulin, was...

‘A recent survey reported that 20 per cent of Americans with diabetes had rationed insulin in the last year, compared to none in Britain, Sweden or Germany. The US is an outlier, but insulin’s robust oligopoly has persisted worldwide.’

Liam Shaw on insulin’s discovery.
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Picture of the cover of my book No Place Like Home with a voucher for 30% off. The Voucher number is AUFLY30 to use at global.oup.com/academic

OUP tells me I should share this. And publicise my book. So here it goes. Please read my book. It has a pretty cover. It's cheap (for an academic book) and you can have this discount! Also please review it, somewhere fancy if possible!

Job: Assistant Prof in the History of Capitalism at the University of Warwick 👇
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Bruce Krajewski reviews David Bather Woods’ "Arthur Schopenhauer": "While Schopenhauer may have struggled with empathy, Woods does not. He has a talent for biographical narrative." lareviewofbooks.org/article/arthur-schopenha...

The cover of Orpheus in the Underworld

"What are the stakes in all this vitriol? For Adorno, it captures his most basic assumption about modern art"

Todd Cronan on Theodor W. Adorno’s “Orpheus in the Underworld": lareviewofbooks.org/article/theodor-adorno-o...

Thank you! And thanks for the list

Hi, can I be added please?

Halcyon days. Love a paper jacket too, glad publishers seem to be going back to that, though probs not purely for aesthetic reasons

Second impression (1953) of the first edition (1953) of the first English translation of Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir #FoundInOxfam @oxfamgb.bsky.social

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I’m going to have to track down this Waite book. I’ll let you know if I do

a graphic with the cover of the wordspotter’s guide by Olivia swarthout

COVER REVEAL!! LOOK AT THE AMERICAN COVER FOR MY BOOK!!! she’s soooo beautiful!! don’t you want her? pre-order her now so you can have her asap! out november 10! sites.prh.com/wordspotters...

Hah, never! If anything, I find it hard not to reach out to reviewers, because reading their impression of the book it just makes me want to talk Schop’ with them. It’s like teaching - by the end of it, you should have another person to talk with about your favourite thing.

It's a good day when the author doesn't want to string up the reviewer. 💙📚

The Doyen of Distress | Los Angeles Review of Books Making excuses for Schopenhauer.

New review of my book in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

“[Bather Woods] has a talent for biographical narrative, and, as advertised, the book provides the life of Schopenhauer in a vivid and moving way, treating thoughtfully the tensions within the Schopenhauer family.”

“Compassion Curmudgeon”, “The Doyen of Distress” - where were these guys when I coming up with book titles?

Thanks, that really means a lot! I was trying not to overload the book with scholarly context, but there are already fine biographies and accessible monographs on Sch., so I was aiming for something different. - No I don’t know it, I’m guess I should seek it out?

The cover of Arthur Shcopenhauer

"Woods, however, cannot always prevent Schopenhauer from shooting himself in the foot."

Bruce Krajewski on the nasty aftertaste of a philosopher's life in "Arthur Schopenhauer": lareviewofbooks.org/article/arthur-schopenha...

Thanks for the review!

The Doyen of Distress | Los Angeles Review of Books Making excuses for Schopenhauer.

My thanks to the workers at the 𝐿𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 for publishing my review of David Bather Woods's biography of Arthur Schopenhauer.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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The Doyen of Distress | Los Angeles Review of Books Making excuses for Schopenhauer.

New review of my book in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

“[Bather Woods] has a talent for biographical narrative, and, as advertised, the book provides the life of Schopenhauer in a vivid and moving way, treating thoughtfully the tensions within the Schopenhauer family.”

Well, spring is here

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Press the off button The day before her twenty-seventh birthday, on her way to Ramsgate, Akshi Singh picked up a copy of A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner. She later

I wrote about Akshi Singh's wonderful debut and the science of rest for @thetls.bsky.social

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