"Marx’s lifelong study of the American contest over slavery provided an essential fourth pillar of his intellectual biography."

"The book’s second major claim is that Karl Marx has appealed to Americans across three centuries because his philosophy of freedom speaks to fundamental human needs about which the U.S. Constitution is silent..."

The German Philosophy that Emancipated America KELLY M.S. SWOPE | Lives like his were proof that the German philosophy of freedom planted real roots in American institutions before and after the War over Slavery.

Excited about this review by Kelly Swope I edited for Marginalia. He looks at two books: Matthew Stewart's An Emancipation of the Mind and @andrewhartman.bsky.social Marx in America - using Du Bouis's bio of John Brown as a way in. Brilliant writing. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-ger...

Did you hear that the Texas A&M library burned down?

It's ok, a brave administrator was able to recover all three books. Thankfully, the two coloring books were in pristine condition; the other was Plato's "Symposium" - so he just threw it back into the flames.

Berlin peeps! This is happening Thursday and Friday. Fichte and embodiment? What else could you possibly want from this world?

Excited for this conference on Fichte's philosophy of embodiment. Registration open.

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

4). Laurent Guyot, Philosophies de la création artistique (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022).

Recension de Francis Haselden

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Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

3). Owen Ware, The Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Review by @w-ezekielgoggin.bsky.social

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2). Manfred Frank, Die Struktur der Subjektivität: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Dieter Henrich (Klostermann, 2024).

Rezension von Bo Tang

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Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

1). Schelling on Trial: On Kirill Chepurin’s Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford UP, 2025).

Review essay @benjaminnorris.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Single Kantians now wondering if they can pass as hedonists at the next APA.

Dissertations used to be like a book, but then the 3 article dissertation became popular. Next is the Substack dissertation.

The 2025 Franz Rosenzweig Summer Academy, hosted by the Goethe Institut — Boston - 36 LEARNING MATTERS Grapple in a highly collaborative environment with Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel und der Stadt, building German and interpretive skills. As a capstone experience, you will compete in the final week for the...

anybody on zoom, or in Boston this summer, with an interest in such things will want to know about this summer school on Franz Rosenzweig's "Hegel and the State."

for sure, any project associated w D Kretz is bound to be fantastic. scholarships still open!

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Very cool! Excited to check it out.

In Focus: New Perspectives on Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808) Article In Focus: New Perspectives on Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808) was published on February 1, 2025 in the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (volume 73, issue 1).

Check out this special issue "New Perspectives on Fichte‘s Reden an die deutsche Nation“ that I edited and that was just published! Contributions by Michelle Kosch, @joelby.bsky.social, Felix Werfel and Zeyad El Nabolsy. And dm me if you don‘t have access.
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Heard about how the academic job market works in Brazil. They have to take an exam in the field as part of the application process. If you're looking to make the process even more stressful, that's the way to go.

Genau.

Just had some gelato in Germany. I mean, it was good, but they got nothing on the Italians. Yet, when it comes to philosophy, the Germans got them beat.

Thinking about becoming a physicalist so when my wife tells me I need to get out and do something physical, I can just sit on the porch and think.

Imagine if Hegel's Logic started with "nothing" - would be a much quicker read.

Loudest show I've ever been to was a Ben Frost show after "Aurora" came out. It was in a smallish room. I was told that the venue rented speakers so their own wouldn't be destroyed. Was wearing ear plugs but had to step out at one point it was so physical, so intense. Swans was a distant second.

Gillian Rose thinks even Adorno's a neo-Fichtean. Didn't see that coming.

Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...

Nice review at Marginalia Review of Books of Gillian Rose's "Marxist Modernism" by Nigel Tubbs, who was one of her students. These are her lectures on the Frankfurt School - Tubbs does a great job of introducing this tradition and her take on it.
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/marxist...

You've lived a wonder-full life and inspired many to do the same. The philosophical world will be a darker place without your light - I hope many of us will learn to live up to your example. Best wishes for a loving and peaceful exit.

Yes, such a beautiful, rich, wide-ranging and important essay. Thank you, Gabe.

All these kids out on campus soaking up the sun on a beautiful day. Disgusts me.

Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

I am excited to share this stunning essay by Kelly Swope just published at Marginalia Review of Books on the poetry of Hannah Arendt (translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social). I hope you enjoy his writing as much as I do! www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/thinkin...

Michael Rothberg | Universal Values On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri...

This is wild! Philosopher Omri Boehm has been canceled as a speaker at the memorial site for Buchenwald due to, it turns out, his endorsement of the universalist, humanist values of the Enlightenment. Even Kantians aren't safe.
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How are universities planning to support international students over the summer break? I suspect many students are worried about leaving for the summer or heading home out fear of not being let back into the US. Curious if this is being discussed on campuses or elsewhere.