Goethea cauliflora 🌺

Morning in the Mountains https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/morning-in-the-mountains

Schelling and Romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tIL... New course on Schelling and the Freedom Essay Seminars launch 5th October. The course will be taught by Christopher Satoor.

Karoline von Günderrode’s “Timur” and the Influence of Ossian This post explores a strong stylistic and thematic influence on Günderrode’s work: the writings of legendary Scottish bard Ossian. For an English translation of Günderrode’s dramatic fragment “Mora” see Karoline von Günderrode:…

Beyond Vienna. -- Bratislava city centre, detail. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Slovakia

Woman on the Beach of Rugen https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/woman-on-the-beach-of-rugen

I am humbled and thrilled to see my recent paper published in #Hegel Bulletin with @universitypress.cambridge.org. In it, I attempt to gain a basic understanding of Hegel’s overall philosophical trajectory. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Émilie du Châtelet challenged the Enlightenment, and history nearly forgot her. Jon Templeman reviews Andrew Janiak’s 'The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman', a bold reexamination of philosophy’s hidden foundations. Read the review here: buff.ly/znhgfdx #EmilieDuChatelet #PhilSky #BookReview

🆕 Philosophy in Review Vol. 45, No. 3 is now live! Explore brand new reviews on language, love, freedom & thought. Open access & endlessly thought-provoking. 👉 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi... #philosophy #bookreviews #openaccess #philsky

Hi everyone. I've just published the newest installment to my Kant on the limit series. This one is a big heavy-going, but hopefully you get something out of it! kosmotheoros.substack.com/p/part-4-on-... #phil #kant #continentalphilosophy #philsky

A review of my book Articulations of Nature and Politics in Plato and Hegel is now available at The Owl of Minerva. I'm grateful to James Sares for his generous reading of my work!

Ruins of the Castillo de Zuheros (Andalucia, Spain) #photography

Thank you for this review essay! To be put online very soon.

"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/

Ich zeige Ihnen mein neuestes Produkt an, liebste Freund – nicht damit Sie es im Intelligenzblatt bekannt machen, sondern daß Sie sich mit mir freuen sollen. Ich bin seit 5 Tagen Vater zu einem gesunden und muntern Sohn,[…] Schiller an Christian Schütz, 19. September 1793

Stay tuned - I should be posting a new blog entry soon on "Trail of Crumbs." This one will be on the influence of Ossian on Karoline von Günderrode's style and thought, with a translation of Günderrode's bloodthirsty short story "Timur" For earlier blog entries, see here: acezekiel.com/blog-2/

Ok! Fixed some stuff and now it looks a bit better. Pretty basic but if you're looking for my work you can find it here: norrisb84.wixsite.com/benjaminnorris

Proofs!!! I'm very excited to share this one with you all. Huge thanks to Kirill and @symphilosophie.bsky.social.

hell yeah let’s get Olympian (historical materialism style)

The copy edits have started coming in for this! Online publication is scheduled for January-March 2026

🎥 Sag, wie hast du’s mit den Wissenschaften? Bevor am morgigen Dienstag Sibylle Anderl und Peter Strohschneider unter der Moderation von Helmut Heit über genau diese Frage diskutieren, haben wir Passant*innen in Weimar gefragt. 💬

Did a Heraclitus philosophical art gallery with the Ancient class today. This activity always works great. Highly recommend.

Ecce Homo Ja! Ich weiß, woher ich stamme! Ungesättigt gleich der Flamme Glühe und verzehr′ ich mich. Licht wird alles, was ich fasse, Kohle alles, was ich lasse: Flamme bin ich sicherlich. ▪️Nietzsche

Alexander von Humboldt was born OTD in 1769. “[My] principal impulse … was the earnest endeavor to comprehend the phenomena of physical objects in their general connection, and to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces.” 🦋🦫🐋🌱🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci

Souhaitons tous un excellent anniversaire au naturaliste, géographe et explorateur 🇩🇪 Alexander von Humboldt, né le 14 septembre 1769 ! Pour info, il est également l'inventeur (avec Horace Bénédict de Saussure) du #cyanomètre, un nuancier destiné à évaluer l’intensité du ciel 👇

The Monk by the Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/the-monk-by-the-sea-1810

Celebrating 100 Years of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Vol. 2 Mythical Thought. Join us in Mainz if you’re around. I’ll speak on “The Expressive Absolute: Myth as Terminus Ad Quem.”

Now in Open Access. Gabriele Gava, Huaping Lu-Adler, Achim Vesper (Eds.), Kant, Race, and Racism: Understanding and Reckoning The issue of race appears at various points in Kant’s writing.

Classical Austria. -- Baden bei Wien: sign on house where Beethoven composed much of his 9th symphony. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #classicalmusic

starting to use Tathandlung in everyday conversation

The Conference for the project I've been working on for the last few years is happening soon. You can access it on streaming: t.co/GjFS3safuQ Full program: acesse.one/OZJAw (I can't wait for it to happen, so I can stop having nightmares about something going wrong)

Very exciting. "Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling and the End of Alterity" by Gregory S. Moss (@philosophermoss.bsky.social) has a release date! Mark your calendars for May 2026. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-absolut...

Fog https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/fog-1807

Abends spätsommerlich zum Hafen spaziert.

Forthcoming by Cambridge @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social @gabegottlieb.bsky.social @symphilosophie.bsky.social @anitaleirfall.bsky.social @w-ezekielgoggin.bsky.social @roupavicky.bsky.social @andrewbowie.bsky.social @efimpi.bsky.social @karlschafer.bsky.social 1/

Warum wir Schelling lesen 12. August 2025 250 Jahre Schelling "Natur, Kreativität und Mit-Schöpfung in Schellings Philosophie." Von Charlotte Alderwick (Bristol) @benjaminnorris.bsky.social praefaktisch.de/250-jahre-sc...

Classical Vienna. -- Hofburg, detail. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky

Back to work, back to Fichte

Klosterbibliothek Maria Laach

Drifting Clouds https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/not-detected-6

„Es gibt keine patriotische Kunst und keine patriotische Wissenschaft. Beide gehören, wie alles Gute, der ganzen Welt an (...)." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28. August 1749 - 22. März 1832 Guten Morgen 

Chatting about A Social History of Analytic Philosophy with the wonderful Jonathan Egid @housmansbookshop.bsky.social youtu.be/FbOVtgdiBMw?...

Es war mein Vorsatz, Ihnen heute meinen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag selbst zu überbringen, aber weil ich zu spät aufstand und mich auch nicht wohl fühlte, so mußte das gute Vorhaben für heute aufgegeben werden. Schiller an Goethe 28.8.1798

📣 New publication! 📣 My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓 @philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social

1805 schrieb Goethe an seinem Geburtstag an Christiane Vulpius nach Weimar: "Nun bin ich wieder in Lauchstedt, wo es sehr still ist. Wenn es nur wenigstens gutes Wetter wäre! Ich habe vorgezogen meinen Geburtstag hier im Stillen zu begehen, um mich bald möglichst zu einigen Arbeiten zu sammeln."

Wishing a very #Goethe birthday to this guy. (Engraving by James Posselwhite)

Very exciting conference coming up in November at University of Notre Dame Australia. Women in the History of Philosophy: On Nature Wednesday 26 – Thursday 27 November 2025