4 yo is telling the cat what atoms are. We're doing science over here.

I was going to send my kids to college but Numero Group keeps reissuing all my favorite records from the 90s.

Started jazz guitar lessons a couple of months ago & the hardest part is finding the time to practice. Also, remembering all those wild chords, swinging things, the theory, fingering the right frets in time, remembering scales, not hitting the wrong string. All good besides that.

Sometimes you have to clean up to find the thing you're looking for, but I'm pretty sure once you find it you can stop cleaning. Luckily, in my case, I found the papers I needed after 45 minutes, so I get to stop cleaning now!

I swear, I'm going to order my books for the fall any day now. Teaching my Liberalism course and I'm so indecisive. Just want to talk about Rousseau and the French Revolution.

Back home from this workshop about publishing a trade book. Super cool people working on exciting projects. Learned so much, it's wild. Trade is a beast! I think the world needs a Fichte bio, trade can work for this, that was confirmed. Just how to do it - that's the question.

Here is an #OpenAccess article in which I describe and explain a syllabus on women thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy; this is based on a class I teach for King's College London: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole issue is on teaching women philosophers. #philsky #philosophy

Forthcoming @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 1/

"Marx’s lifelong study of the American contest over slavery provided an essential fourth pillar of his intellectual biography."

"The book’s second major claim is that Karl Marx has appealed to Americans across three centuries because his philosophy of freedom speaks to fundamental human needs about which the U.S. Constitution is silent..."

Excited about this review by Kelly Swope I edited for Marginalia. He looks at two books: Matthew Stewart's An Emancipation of the Mind and @andrewhartman.bsky.social Marx in America - using Du Bouis's bio of John Brown as a way in. Brilliant writing. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-ger...

Did you hear that the Texas A&M library burned down? It's ok, a brave administrator was able to recover all three books. Thankfully, the two coloring books were in pristine condition; the other was Plato's "Symposium" - so he just threw it back into the flames.

Berlin peeps! This is happening Thursday and Friday. Fichte and embodiment? What else could you possibly want from this world?

Excited for this conference on Fichte's philosophy of embodiment. Registration open.

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 4). Laurent Guyot, Philosophies de la création artistique (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022). Recension de Francis Haselden symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 3). Owen Ware, The Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025). Review by @w-ezekielgoggin.bsky.social

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 2). Manfred Frank, Die Struktur der Subjektivität: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Dieter Henrich (Klostermann, 2024). Rezension von Bo Tang symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 1). Schelling on Trial: On Kirill Chepurin’s Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford UP, 2025). Review essay @benjaminnorris.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Single Kantians now wondering if they can pass as hedonists at the next APA.

Dissertations used to be like a book, but then the 3 article dissertation became popular. Next is the Substack dissertation.

anybody on zoom, or in Boston this summer, with an interest in such things will want to know about this summer school on Franz Rosenzweig's "Hegel and the State." for sure, any project associated w D Kretz is bound to be fantastic. scholarships still open! 36learningmatters.com/course/2025-...

Check out this special issue "New Perspectives on Fichte‘s Reden an die deutsche Nation“ that I edited and that was just published! Contributions by Michelle Kosch, @joelby.bsky.social, Felix Werfel and Zeyad El Nabolsy. And dm me if you don‘t have access. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Heard about how the academic job market works in Brazil. They have to take an exam in the field as part of the application process. If you're looking to make the process even more stressful, that's the way to go.

Just had some gelato in Germany. I mean, it was good, but they got nothing on the Italians. Yet, when it comes to philosophy, the Germans got them beat.

Thinking about becoming a physicalist so when my wife tells me I need to get out and do something physical, I can just sit on the porch and think.

Imagine if Hegel's Logic started with "nothing" - would be a much quicker read.

Loudest show I've ever been to was a Ben Frost show after "Aurora" came out. It was in a smallish room. I was told that the venue rented speakers so their own wouldn't be destroyed. Was wearing ear plugs but had to step out at one point it was so physical, so intense. Swans was a distant second.

Gillian Rose thinks even Adorno's a neo-Fichtean. Didn't see that coming.

Nice review at Marginalia Review of Books of Gillian Rose's "Marxist Modernism" by Nigel Tubbs, who was one of her students. These are her lectures on the Frankfurt School - Tubbs does a great job of introducing this tradition and her take on it. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/marxist...

Yes, such a beautiful, rich, wide-ranging and important essay. Thank you, Gabe.

All these kids out on campus soaking up the sun on a beautiful day. Disgusts me.

I am excited to share this stunning essay by Kelly Swope just published at Marginalia Review of Books on the poetry of Hannah Arendt (translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social). I hope you enjoy his writing as much as I do! www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/thinkin...

This is wild! Philosopher Omri Boehm has been canceled as a speaker at the memorial site for Buchenwald due to, it turns out, his endorsement of the universalist, humanist values of the Enlightenment. Even Kantians aren't safe. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

How are universities planning to support international students over the summer break? I suspect many students are worried about leaving for the summer or heading home out fear of not being let back into the US. Curious if this is being discussed on campuses or elsewhere.

Hegel's dialectical method? No! Fichte's synthetic method.

Newest issue of Fichteana: Review of J.G. Fichte Research is now available online. Includes many reviews, including of two volumes I edited + a review of Owen Ware's Fichte's Moral Philosophy, plus news, CFPs, new publications. Thanks to @symphilosophie.bsky.social! sites.google.com/view/fichtea...

New Tortoise single is solid. More please.

Across the last 48 hours, “Signalgate” has morphed from one scandal into what I think is best thought of as five distinct overlapping scandals, as well as providing some fascinating political insight into who has power and how decisions get made in Trump II. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

Excellent review of my Liberalism as a Way of Life by Benjamin Ball for Marginalia Review of Books. Ball says I'm too hard on democracy (I'm sure he's right) and wonders, with Dewey and others, what "democracy as a way of life" looks like. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/self-co...

I wrote something on Pippin on Heidegger on German Idealism

1. Last year I took on the role of Associate Editor of Philosophy @ Marginalia Review of Books. I'm excited to share the first two pieces I commissioned/edited. First is @kritikredux.bsky.social's review of Robert Pippin's The Culmination. A must read. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-mea...

Is it possible that Cambridge Elements, when downloaded for free, can't be printed? Other PDFs printing fine, but a relatively new CE won't - though I did print one I downloaded a long time ago. Curious.

We recorded the short explainers on our Margin Notes V1 pieces—and uploaded them as Episode 0 of our new podcast, “Critique of the Podcast Form (a critical theory podcast)”! If you have any suggestions for themes texts or guests, let us know! & enjoy!

Can we just skip the Trump dictatorship and go directly to the dictatorship of the proletariat?

Been adding people here and there, including just now @karenkyng.bsky.social, so check it out and share widely, folks. go.bsky.app/M8EW1wa

Was thinking of becoming a "pluralistic lexical consequentialist' but I prefer ethical theories that come in three syllables.

Watched A Real Pain - was a real delight. Such an interesting Holocaust film.

Accidentally left my laptop at work. Guess that means I can't grade all those papers students submitted online. Really disappointed. Now, what should I read?

Friends & Fellow Colleagues: I am very excited to release the latest episode of The Young Idealist Series. A Special Book Presentation featuring Dr. Owen Ware (U of T). on his new book: Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...