I will probably post some #LeftEthics observations here on Bluesky, but Slack will be the hub for longer reflections and conversations. I'm starting this because I miss teaching this material and I've long wanted more people to read and cite The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Wretched of the Earth
Updated #LeftEthics Syllabus. The goal is to do about a book a month through the end of 2026.
(March): Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
(April): Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire / Theses on Feuerbach
(May) Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation / notes on legitimacy from Economy and Society
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5. Sartre, Existentialism Is A Humanism / Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
6. Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
7. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
8. Gramsci, selections from Prison Notebooks
9. Arendt, Eichmann In Jerusalem
10. Weil, The Need for Roots
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Draft syllabus:
1 (March): Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
2 (April etc): Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire / Theses on Feuerbach
3: Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation / notes on Legitimacy
4: Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence/One Way Street/On the Philosophy of History
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I’m thinking #LeftEthics will do something like a short book or a couple of articles per month. I’ve loved sprinting through Moby Dick in 🐋 #MonthOfDick but that’s hard to sustain. And I’d probably set up a Slack or Discord rather than use Bluesky, at least primarily
Let's call it #LeftEthics for now. I'll come up with an appropriate emoji tag.
The idea is not so much "this is what you ought to do as an anti-fascist" but "here's how to think about and make sense of your moral and political choices as a reflective, historical being."
