Coming up: Mon. July 13 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" David Bather Woods with Patrick Hassan Schopenhauer questioned the purpose of life with inescapable pain and suffering, so searched for HOW to live! #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/schop...

#Schopenhauer #pessimism #Purpose #Suffering @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social Have a look at David Bather Woods' book, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist," and we'll see you Monday! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I'll be talking Schop' in a webinar event for @philosopher1923.bsky.social with fellow Schopenhauerian, Dr. Patrick Hassan (@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social) on Monday 13th July (7pm UK). Book your tickets now! @philoswarwick.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

I was interviewed about my book for the blog of the APA. I really enjoyed these questions! @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social

I'll be talking Schop' in a webinar event for @philosopher1923.bsky.social with fellow Schopenhauerian, Dr. Patrick Hassan (@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social) on Monday 13th July (7pm UK). Book your tickets now! @philoswarwick.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Hello fellow Kantians! Our BlueSky is up and dancing. The social art to keep us connected. Let us know if you would like anything posted.

Look out world, the UK Kant Society is now on Bluesky! Pretty sure that will resolve whatever issues we're currently facing. Anyway, if you're interested in Kant, give us a follow here: @ukkantsociety.bsky.social

A positive review of my book in The Review of Metaphysics: "The author successfully brings together a wide range of sources and presents them in a unified, readable form. In my view, this hybrid character is precisely what makes the book a distinctive contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship."

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

Announcing: On Philosophy: Spring/Summer 2026 Events are free via Zoom, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK featuring Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jonathan Williams, Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, Colin Koopman, Radha D'Souza, Cecile Malaspina, Nandita Sharma, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

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

"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...

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.”

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.”

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! www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

‘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. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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 👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

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." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/arthur-schopenhauer-philosophys-greatest-pessimist-david-bather-woods/

"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": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theodor-adorno-orpheus-underworld-music-criticism-sibelius-stravinsky/

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

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...

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

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?

"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": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/arthur-schopenhauer-philosophys-greatest-pessimist-david-bather-woods/

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 lareviewofbooks.org/article/arth...

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

👀 @philosopher1923.bsky.social

I wrote about Akshi Singh's wonderful debut and the science of rest for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/science-tech...

What would Schopenhauer think of A.I.? open.substack.com/pub/davidbat...

What would Schopenhauer think of A.I.? open.substack.com/pub/davidbat...

Ever wondered what on earth Schopenhauer means when he says the world is my will? Wonder no more! 👇

Reality doesn't exist on its own; without subjectivity to perceive it, the universe would be radically different. | https://bit.ly/4bGVDFe Drawing on Schopenhauer, philosopher @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social argues that it is the will behind our subjectivity that also makes up the world itself.

8th Warwick Annual Continental Philosophy Conference (WCPC)— ‘Tracing Genealogy’. Submission deadline: 18:00 (GMT), 15th April 2026 Submit to [email protected]. Full CFP - warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil... #ContinentalPhilosophy #Genealogy #Nietzsche #Foucault #BernardWilliams #ConceptualEngineering

A CfA for the 2nd Predoctoral Conference on the quartet in Manchester in June: deadline 20 February. For more information about how to submit and attend please see our website: www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

Recovering - in the best possible sense - after hosting yesterday's wonderful Warwick Philosophy Year 12 Conference. 129 pupils and 14 teachers from 10 schools! #PhilosophyMatters #PhilosophyFortnight #philsky @philoswarwick.bsky.social @triphilosophy.bsky.social @thebpa.bsky.social

The reason why books are so unbeatable is that for the price of a £3.99 donation to charity you can walk home with a book you didn’t know existed on a topic you’re interested in by an author you admire and then when you’re done you can give it back to start the whole cycle off again #FoundInOxfam

I talked about my book with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Lovely response to my book and insightful reflection on the comic side of Schopenhauer

Lovely review by the brilliant Bart Vandenabeele of the Dutch translation of my book. "David Bather Woods shows that Schopenhauer's pessimism can still be compelling ★★★★"

Around half way through Beauvoir’s memoir of Sartre’s dying years, she writes ‘He had almost entirely stopped smoking.’ That’s when you know things are bad.

"Bather Woods surveys with eclectic range and idiosyncratic depth his implacable and irascible subject’s preoccupations with love, loneliness, morality, politics, gender, sexuality, death, suicide, fame and madness." New book review in @spectrumculture.bsky.social

Generous and insightful book review in Ratio by Richard Elliott (Reading/Birkbeck)

TODAY: On the 238th anniversary of the great grouch, tune in for a spirit-lifting with David Bather Woods from the University of Warwick, author of "Arthur #Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist" – 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

My article in Mind now has an issue number academic.oup.com/mind/article...

For his 238th birthday, I answer the question: Where should I start with Schopenhauer? open.substack.com/pub/davidbat...