.Boston College political scientist Hannes Kerber Hannes Kerber is a co-editor of, and contributor to, a new collection of essays devoted to the writing and debate strategies of the German philosopher and Enlightenment figure Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. bcbookmarks.com/2024/08/26/les…

A man in Istanbul distributed sweets in memory of philosopher Spinoza’s 347th death anniversary.

Hegel heult. #Tübingen

A few good reads on Plato. What would you add?

In September 1784 Moses Mendelssohn publishes “On the Question: What does ‘to enlighten’ mean?”

Man verliert allmählich die Hoffnung.

Online Leuven Seminar in Classical German Philosophy this autumn: dgphil.de/aktuelles/alle…

Just two weeks left to submit your abstract for our CFP! An excellent chance to present a PhD chapter or journal article in progress. Whether polished or a work-in-progress, gain valuable feedback and sharpen your speaking skills. Open to all long-18th century topics!

Im großen Festsaal des Rathauses, anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags von Ernst Cassirer: Birgit Recki und Carsten Brosda sprechen über dessen Begriff des „animal symbolicum“.

„Ein Anarchist […] müsste seine helle Freude haben“: Am Freitag, den 27. September, spreche ich in der Buchhandlung Blaumilch, Heidelberg Plöck 56a, über Hans Friedrich Fuldas späte Schriften zu Kant. Kommt zahlreich, es wird ein Fest!

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Registration is now open for the JHI Blog's sixth-annual Graduate Student Symposium — "The Uses and Abuses of History" — to be held via Zoom on Saturday, September 28. The program and registration link are available here: web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/0…

Join us in welcoming our next new faculty member: Alexander Duff. Dr. Duff writes widely on the history of political philosophy and recently published a book on Heidegger. He also co-founded the Association for the History of Political Thought. Welcome to UT Austin, Dr. Duff!

'Snow is white' is true iff snow is white

It was clever of the painter not just to paint Lessing as a child, foreseeing his later fame, but to foresee how he would look as an old man, so as to paint how he would have looked as an old man, as a child. ernst-von-siemens-kunststiftung.de/objekt/ein-kin…

Wir - Kathrin Wittler, Andree Michaelis-König, Luisa Banki - freuen uns auf Menschen, die mit uns über #JüdischeLiteraturen diskutieren und sich zur #Postdoc - Situation im deutschsprachigen Raum austauschen möchten.

Wichtig und richtig.

The Association for the History of Political Thought has honored JMC Scholars Michael and Catherine Zuckert with a new book award named after them! The nomination deadline is January 31, 2025. Learn more and nominate someone!: politicalthought.org/book-prize

Friday, September 6, 12 PM ET "Leo Strauss: A Half-Century Retrospective" with Timothy Burns and Devin Stauffer. tinyurl.com/2bskmrl7

"Ein plötzlicher Tod, der mich in einem tiefen Schlafe überfiele, ein heimliches Gift, der mich gantzlich fühllos machte, würde mir eigentlich keine Schmertzen verursachen, und dennoch unstreitig meiner Glükseeligkeit Abbruch thun." (Moses Mendelssohn, 1755, geb. 6. Sept. 1729)