Excited to share this thoughtful review of Absolute Ethical Life by Charles Barbour in Review of Politics:

Really interesting start by @michaellazarus.bsky.social

After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...

Jackson Herndon interviews Michael Lazarus about his book "Absolute Ethical Life." They discuss Marx's Aristotelian-Hegelian ethics, Arendt's and MacIntyre's concepts of the ethical, and the enduring significance of "species-being" to Marx. @michaellazarus.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

With a robust critique of capitalism derived from the determinations of what Marx calls the "form of value," Lazarus argues for an ethical life beyond capital. Available online at 📚 buff.ly/MCb1Bhr @stanfordpress.bsky.social @michaellazarus.bsky.social @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

Some pictures from the panel on Absolute Ethical Life at Historicalmaterialism.org with Alyssa Battistoni, Tatiana Llaguno and Patrick Murray. Wonderful to talk about the book with comrades.

and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...

Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro... NDPR review ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/race...

Podcast on my book: newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...

Two Melbourne events this week on Absolute Ethical Life: Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers. 19 Aug 7:30pm Sunday with Mathew Abbott. 24 Aug 5:00pm

Tonight!

now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Schedule of INDIGNITY events in September/October @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - save the dates and stay tuned for more in other countries 😊😍🐥!!

SYDNEY launch of Absolute Ethical Life, with Jean-Philippe Deranty! 12 August at Gleebooks.

Brisbane talk! Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy. 6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23

The 20th of July will mark the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria

Melbourne launch! At my favourite bar, with my favourite bookshop. Register here: events.humanitix.com/absolute-eth...

Joining @jensensuther.bsky.social for a discussion of the significance of Aristotle and Hegel in Marx's thought and Marxist theory/June 29 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 marxedproject.org/event/aristo...

Watch closely to see if you can tell when i am trying to simultaneously read my talk and get a dog treat out from under my desk to quiet a barking dog

Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life by @michaellazarus.bsky.social‬ provides resources for understanding how freedom & rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today www.sup.org/books/politi...

Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx is out today! Available from SUP with 20% off (code: LAZARUS20), the usual places or ask your library to order it. Discussing the book tonight, Unnameable Books NY, 7pm.

Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book! Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic. Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social! www.sup.org/books/politi...

Tomorrow at Unnameable Books!

"'Men make their own history, but,' this phrase echoes through the Marxist classics. The political aim of Marxists is to liquidate that 'but'. Their theoretical aim is to understand it. /1

I'm discussing Absolute Ethical Life on 03 June -- the offical release date -- with Emma Fajgenbaum at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.

"ever since the days when I was privileged to be a contributor to that most remarkable journal The New Reasoner, I had been preoccupied with the question of the basis for the moral rejection of Stalinism." MacIntyre in After Virtue

Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!? "[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."

The project that eventually became Absolute Ethical Life was initially going to be an assessment of Alasdair MacIntyre's relationship to Marx's thought. In the book, there's a dedicated chapter to MacIntyre but throughout he's always very close to the concerns at hand:

"The separation of morality from history, from desire discovered through the discovery of that common human nature which history shows as emerging, leaves morality without any basis." Alasdair MacIntyre's "Notes From the Moral Wilderness."

Alastair MacIntyre taught us what modern moral philosophy could be. He will be missed.

Kind words from a fantastic editor and theorist — it was great pleasure to work with Stefan

Tomorrow!

"What emerges from Marx’s Capital is an account of capitalism as a form of life which is constituted by social relations of domination that restrict in fundamental ways the ability of human beings to recognise each other as free and rational beings in a social world of our own creation."

Book Launch for Absolute Ethical Life, next week at 192books in NYC, with Martin Hägglund and Jay Bernstein

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"Writing naturally invites continuity; writing for the future is writing against writing." please read this beautiful interview by @michaellazarus.bsky.social with jay; on gillian rose, critical theory, hegelianism, marxism. each response is a gem. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...