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...

What will you be doing on Schopenhauer’s 238th birthday? If you want to spend it with me and other Schopenhaurians, you can! Join me and @ahalder.bsky.social for an @interintellect.bsky.social salon on Schopenhauer’s life and thought. Tickets are free at the link below.

Substack post incoming tomorrow to mark Christmas for post-Kantian pessimists

Coming up: On the 238th anniversary of the great curmudgeon, revisit our conversation with @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social from the University of Warwick, author of "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist." 🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW in San Francisco & kalw.org.

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/schope... #PhilSky #philosophy #pessimism

This Sunday marks the 238th anniversary Arthur #Schopenhauer, so we'll be rebroadcasting our recent episode with @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social. Ahead of the program we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to find the silver lining in Schopenhauer’s dismal worldview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-k...

Ellie Robson (@philosophellie.bsky.social) and I edited a new virtual special issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 'Ten Women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society' 10 papers from the first 10 women to be president of the AS are all available open access here: tinyurl.com/ufy9ncn9

I read this book because I adore @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social’s work & I loved this book because of his writing & what he’s done here. I now see more kindness in #Schopenhauer & his ideas than I thought possible. Congrats @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social #Philsky #booksky

‘Alexandre Kojève’s colleagues were aware that he had another life outside the ministry: on Sundays he became a “Hegelian philosopher”, devouring the Gesammelte Werke – so it was said – with the same appetite that others brought to the latest adventures of Tintin.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today we begin a new series asking why contemporary political philosophy struggles to make sense of the deepest problems of politics and exploring how the history of ideas might help. Political theorist Paul Sagar suggests we start with Aristotle. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Some very exciting new hardbacks and paperbacκs out later this year in @anthempress.bsky.social Studies in #Wittgenstein! Get 25% off all titles old and new by pre-ordering with code WPS25: www.anthempress.com/anthem-studi...

Spotted in Powell’s City of Books, Portland 👀

Spotted in Powell’s City of Books, Portland 👀

How have ideas of relational equality developed in the past 100 years? ⚖️ Don't miss this forthcoming #London #Lecture by TRIP President @jowolff.bsky.social, Social Equality: Then and Now. 🎟️ Get tickets here: buff.ly/WQ4gFXS #politicalphilosophy #socialequality #philosophy

'A crucial innovation lay in the invention of ‘timelines’ (...) In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably the world’s first modern timeline.' aeon.co/essays/when-...

Is there such a thing as a reverse writers retreat, where I don’t go away but everybody else does?

Schopenhauer and Mill are neck and neck! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What will you be doing on Schopenhauer’s 238th birthday? If you want to spend it with me and other Schopenhaurians, you can! Join me and @ahalder.bsky.social for an @interintellect.bsky.social salon on Schopenhauer’s life and thought. Tickets are free at the link below.

Als je de mooie biografie van @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social gelezen hebt ga je dit ook lezen, in het Duits nog wel 🙈 Schopenhauer was de enige inzending op de prijsvraag naar de grondslag van de moraal en kreeg er GEEN prijs voor. Dat liet hij natuurlijk niet over zijn kant gaan. Ben benieuwd.

A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social and the University of Chicago Press: "He has produced a swiftly and gracefully readable book about Schopenhauer which doesn’t stint on explication." www.georgehunka.com/books/self-h...

According to #Schopenhauer, the person who can say "yes" to accepting the suffering in exchange for the joy, has realised their connection to the eternal lifeforce and conquered the fear of death. #philsky Arthur Schopenhauer Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist David Bather Woods.

New blog post. I recently finished a new biography of #Schopenhauer from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social (highly recommend). One part that stood out was Schopenhauer's warning about how excessive solitude can feed social anxiety. #philosophy #mentalhealth

Weekend reading. Only 30 pages in, I already think it is great book!