Being reminded of Adorno’s statement that “in placing the right of the state over that of its members, the horror is potentially already posited” by @dirkmoses.bsky.social ‘s talk on Camouflaged Genocide today
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Classical German Philosophy and its reception | History of 18th-20th Century European Philosophy MA (Research) on Paul B. Preciado and Sexuate Difference PhDing on Hegel and his influence on France via Jean Hyppolite @ UNSW
Finally, Günther Anders magnum opus is appearing in English, December this year www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...
The Obsolescence of the Human
Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influ...
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Critical Theory in Berlin@ktbberlin.bsky.social · last yr.📆 Save the Date: - Online Event! - One week from today Jacob Blumenfeld will talk to Alex Demirović about the history of Critical Theory, the role of critical intellectuals in society and his experiences in the New Left and beyond. Zoom link on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...
Tired of endless superficial takes? Dig deeper with @michaellazarus.bsky.social new book Absolute Ethical Life!
You don't have to be an abolitionist to know that extraterritorial, indefinite detention in camps is wrong for ANYONE. The fixation on one guy being "innocent" is really toxic. #FreeThemAll
when Adorno & Horkheimer were sending each other letters full of insults in 34, Adorno—probs the single real reader of the recently published “Dämmerung”—writes a letter like ‘I hate you right now but I unconditionally love this book if you even care. We are destined to be friends. Give it up’ lmfao
Congratulations to Germaine A. Hoston, winner of the JHI's Selma V. Forkosch Prize for her article “Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism"!
Announcing the winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for 2024: Germaine A. Hoston
The Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the journal each year. The winner of the JHI’s Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article pub...
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Translations of two previously unpublished fragments on “Negative Metaphysics” by Herbert Marcuse (ca. 1933), original variations on the critique of Heidegger Horkheimer & Adorno were working on their own versions if at the time! (Link below)
I love that it’s a trans historical truth that philosophers will choose an enemy (whether that be a school, camp, or position) and accuse everyone they don’t like of it
The fact that bestimmtes sein and dasein were translated from Hegel as être-là will be the bane of my existence because now people think it’s necessarily existentialist/phenomenological.
IMO the solution to the Marxist periodization debates is to double down & get even more specific. You have to be ready to pull out a Foucault style “There were no homosexuals before 1870” or give it up & go home
Dämmerung I: Horkheimer’s Weimar Journals (ca. 1920-1928), 31 entries with the “paradoxical bearing” of Kierkegaard & the class-critical rancor of young Marx on Eugène Sue Pt II, with untranslated aphorisms & outtakes from Dämmerung (+ new Marcuse fragments) soon! Link below
Adorno in a 39 letter to Scholem says the Zohar reminded him of being a “short winded / near sighted city dweller” on a guided hike to see an elusive Chamois, didn’t, but got such a comprehensive “topology” of the habitat he vibrated with excitement that there could be one around any corner lol
"It is a world in decline with climate breakdown baked in from past emissions and leaders driving us on a suicidal trajectory. The one hope they point to is the contradictions in the capitalist system itself." brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiel...
The Overshoot Scam | The Brooklyn Rail
In Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, aided by Marx’s analysis of capitalism (and with a nod to Freud’s insights into psychopathology) have succeed...
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Rereading Adorno's Hegel: Three Studies. He is so right about like everything
Celebrating the last week of #womenshistorymonth with recent books on women philosophers number 12! #philsky #19c
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social, Indignity: A Life Reimagined - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Indignity
The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her ...
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let’s just say some of the aphorisms that were left out of the english translation are pretty spicy lol
James Crane@jamescrane.bsky.social · last yr.decided to just finish all the aphorisms that weren’t already translated for the partial 70s English coll & I got like five left so hopefully the whole thing (1. Excerpts from Dämmerung, 2. untranslated from it, 3. Journals from that time, 4. Marcuse frags) will be up shortly!
I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci
Does anyone know if the verb dégager is used in French Heidegger translations?
📅 Online | 2.4. Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik Gespräch mit Isabella Weber und Sabine Nuss, moderiert von Rahel Jaeggi und Johanna Bussemer. 👇 www.rosalux.de/veran...
funny thing about Benjamin reception—attempts to intro irreconcilable differences between his & Adorno/Horkheimer’s thought began as an effort to rescue Benjamin from his Marxism & communism & became an argument for the purity of his Marxism & communism. both wrong though
When time machines are invented I’m going back in time and giving pippin an copy of Foucault’s Hegel thesis
Engels thought that the future uninhabitability of the earth for humans posed problems for Hegel's philosophy of history. Natural scientists being 'fairy certain' about this proved that there is not only an 'ascending but also a descending branch of human history'!
