I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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This week on #HoPWaG we look at Pierre Bayle, and ask whether his Dictionary is supposed to lead the reader towards skepticism or a more profound Christian faith. (Maybe both?) historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl... #philsky #philosophy #bayle #dictionaries #earlymodern #skepticism
My chapter on "Colonialism, Fascism, and Force's many faces" as well as fantastic chapters by Kate Lawson, Inese Radzins, and Ben Davis, and others can now be read! Edited by Christopher Thomas and Deborah Casewell of the UK Weil Network!
The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil
The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the
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“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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The Oxford Handbook of Allegory is out now - 41 contributors from around the world and multiple disciplines on allegory from Plato to Inside Out: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Meine Frankfurter Vermieterin verklagte mich mit dem Argument, die Zahl meiner Bücher lasse sich nur damit erklären, dass ich aus der Wohnung ein Versandantiquariat betriebe. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
Too Many Books?
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Ich habe bei Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann unschätzbar viel gelernt...über griechische Metaphysik, barocke Universalwissenschaft und die christliche Kabbala. Ein Gelehrtentypus, den es so heuzutage nicht mehr gibt.
Religionsphilosoph Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann wird achtzig
Die Mustergeschichte des Teufels ist keine schöne Literatur: Der Religionsphilosoph Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann wird achtzig.
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📖 Heute ist das neue DAJ-Heft 50/1 (2026) der #DGEJ beim @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social erschienen und enthält wie immer interessante Beiträge und Rezensionen. Unsere Mitglieder erhalten das Heft kostenfrei! www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536005...
Die Geisteswissenschaften in der FAZ gestern wieder so gut und interessant, u. a. dieser Artikel über die deutsche Rezeption der amerikanischen Revolution von Kai Sina und Gideon Stiening @kaisinat.bsky.social @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social
Since life is keeping me busy I don't have time to do much writing and what not now, so just to keep my blog active I fired off a quick post about the latest report on the humanities. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
The Null Hypothesis Regarding the Humanities
Unfortunately life is keeping me too busy right now for blogging, or really much else. But I just thought I would weigh in on the State of t...
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On Matthew Arnold and John Bright on True Glory and True Liberalism, and somewhat surprisingly Xenophon's Socrates. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Matthew Arnold and John Bright on True Glory and True Liberalism, and somewhat surprisingly Xenophon's Socrates.
Last week (here) I noted that throughout Culture and Anarchy (1869), Matthew Arnold treats the great liberal politician and social movement leader, John Bright, as his principle opponent.
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To let you know; Die großartige Dissertation von Rabea Conrad zu Schwesterlichkeit ist erschienen #Litwiss
out today is this j mascis / mike watt seven inch from red parakeet! redparakeet.bandcamp.com/album/mike-w... j doing a watt tune on one side: "formal introduction" + me (along w/george hurley kicking up much dust!) doing a j tune on the other: "the little baby"
It was a dream come true to contribute to the latest episode of In Our Time, on the Levellers, with Clare Jackson and Ted Vallance. Have a listen!
Simon Tillotson@simontillotson.bsky.social · 3mo agoComing up at 9 in the UK and around the globe on BBC.com we have the so-called Levellers who, back in the 17th century, called for more equal rights and helped start a long tradition of dissent www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
nun veröffentlicht & open access: der von carolin rocks & mir herausgegebene band "literarische exerzitien. formen des übens in der modernen literatur" - www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536083...
Literarische Exerzitien | Wallstein Open Library
Wie steht es um die Originalität, Virtuosität und das Ethos der modernen Literatur, wenn sie ihre Form im regelversessenen Exerzitium sucht? Die moderne Literatur wird von autonomen Autor*innen durch ...
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If your library doesn't subscribe to Milton Studies, you can access my article for free for 90 days via this link: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/milton-...
Toland’s Milton, the Acta Eruditorum, and the Reception of English Republican Ideas in the German Enlightenment
ABSTRACT. This article focuses on the reception of John Milton’s work in Germany from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Due to the potentially treasonous content of his Defensio (16...
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Hey, Rebecca, do you know where I can get a copy of little known up-and-comer Friedrich Hölderlin's complete correspondence in English? SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Now out in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social. 750 pages of translated epistolary awesomeness. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin
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"Living this life is like trying to learn Latin in a Chinese firedrill" www.youtube.com/watch?v=381e...
Chinese Firedrill
YouTube video by Mike Watt - Topic
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"Philosophie als Lehrfach, Examensfach, eine Disziplin, in der wie in anderen Disziplinen promoviert wird. Für die Studierenden und Dozenten hat ·die Philosophie den Schein eines allgemeinen Faches, darüber Vorlesungen gehalten werden.
There are 24 chapters in “Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings,” each including a translation of one (or more!) of Günderrode’s most fascinating works + a short intro highlighting her philosophical claims. Ch 22 has Günderrode’s notes on Hemsterhuis: Buy here: academic.oup.com/book/62113
How can #academics make a difference in times of rising authoritarianism? Our #JLT issue on #LiteraryStudies and/as #PoliticalActivism is out now-with statements by Derek Attridge, Marco Carracciolo, N. Katherine Hayles, Caroline Levine, Peter Strohschneider and many more jltonline.de/articles/20.1/
Liebevoll gemachte, klug eingeführte und kommentierte Neuausgabe der zeitgenössischen Übersetzung von Thomas Paines COMMON SENSE durch den „Sturm und Drang“-beseelten Aufklärer und frühen Politischen Ökonomen C. W. Dohm von 1777 nebst Dohms Essay dazu. Erschienen bei @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social.
Das Plakat zum Workshop ist da und die Vorfreude steigt! Am 30.6. und 1.7. denken wir in Greifswald über ästhetische Strategien, Medienformate und gesellschaftliche Interventionen von filmischen Lyrikadaptionen nach. U.a. Mit @annahofman.bsky.social @alrik.bsky.social uvm. #litwiss
Im Mai-Heft des Merkur: "Kleine Politische Theorie der Straße"
Kleine Politische Theorie der Straße – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Jan-Werner Müller. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
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No regrets zu dem, was ich vor 2 Monaten hier gesagt hab.
Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 6mo agoI'm kind of sick and tired of seeing privileged (mostly male) senior scholars take advantage of their own privileged positions to mainstream and normalise the far right, seemingly without any shame (or consequences). Your work is harming us all (collectively, societally, and within the discipline).
this is what you want to see when you watch a movie
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is what you want to see when you watch a movie
"Ich sage dir: es ist nichts Heiliges, was nicht entheiligt, nicht zum ärmlichen Behelf herabgewürdigt ist bei diesem Volk, und was selbst unter Wilden göttlichrein sich meist erhält, das treiben diese allberechnenden Barbaren, wie man so ein Handwerk treibt, und können es nicht anders,
