Dialogue with Stephen Houlgate: A Hegelian Life. Johannes Niederhauser, 2024. youtu.be/n-J7gsPAlbg via YouTube

The Accumulation of Capital

I know he’s wrong about Hegel or whatever, but reading Kojève after 2.5 beers will make you want to run through a brick wall. 10/10 experience, 3/10 philosophy

jean charles leonard How is "stumme zwang" translated?

It is with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and colleague Robert Stern on 21 August 2024. Bob was well known and respected around the world for both his outstanding scholarship and his kindness. He will be greatly missed.

Finishing this great introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory by the late Gillian Rose published by Verso Books. Great edition, informative and inspiring.

FWIW: a 'hard decision' isn't one which will worsen the lives of the basically voiceless people who voted for you in hope. It's the one which will make the people who have your private phone number scream and howl and threaten.

For me, fwiw, the problem is not about "moral philosophies," but with Rose, the "antinomy of law," instantiated by a "historically specific legal structure which establishes and protects absolute property by means of the juridical fictions of persons, things, and obligations."

Gillian Rose’s Marxist Modernism is finally available in the UK, shipping and in bookshops from 3 September versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

"All dialectic gives force to what is taken immediately, but only in order to allow the dissolution inherent in it to come to pass; and we may call this the universal irony of the world." (Hegel, lectures on the history of philosophy)

I will be chairing a panel on Wallace Stevens's essays/prose next May at ALA 2025 with the WS society - cfp below, please send us your abstracts! Deadline 14 October. Conference details here: americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conference…

Dude this shit is so fire

My review of Jameson's "Inventions of a Present."

Bumpf in bumpf out arena.org.au/badiou-politic…

One strand of Gillian Rose's writing on Nazism was precisely to stress - against consolatory fantasies about its total otherness - that it was born in and from the culture we share. Taking that thought seriously ought to be chilling.