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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lots of Schlegel, some Fichte, Goethe, and much, much more!

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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Issue 8 (2026) of SYMPHILOSOPHIE on "Symphilosophizing" is now published!! 320 pages of new research on German romantic philosophy fully open access: symphilosophie.com/issue-8-2026/ It's a special issue of the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2025 at University of Bonn.

cover of symphilosophie journal issue 8 on the topic of symphilosophizing in German romanticism with a photo of a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida called De Musica IV in Bonn city centre.

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Esther Neuhann @estherneuhann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Karen Koch and I just published a paper on the role that nature plays in Fichte’s and Hegel’s justifications of partriarchal marriage, open acces in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Dalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So here's something fun - a video introducing the podcast! Listen and watch to get a sense of what the first season of The Wednesday Society is about... I look forward to hearing your thoughts. All episodes will land tomorrow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDW2...

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The Wednesday Society podcast trailer

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

About a third into this Rousseau bio - really fun read. You'll be glad to know that Rousseau always beat Diderot at chess.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New volume of essays on Fichte's moral and political philosophy coming out at the end of the year. Some really great essays in here - excited for it to finally appear.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Easing back into working and it feels good. Vacation with young kids can be more work than work. Lovely in all kinds of ways, but it's been a couple of weeks since doing some actual philosophical work.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't know if you can hear my 4yo screaming but she doesn't want the nuggets and spaghettios I made for her dinner. She wants Thai food (honestly don't blame her) and been crying her eyes out about it. She's like why do you get to decide what I eat? I see her point to be fair.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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!

My messy office, half cleaned, with lots of books and boxes.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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

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Women of the world: teaching women thinkers in pre-modern global philosophy

This paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ...

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"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..."

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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...

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The German Philosophy that Emancipated America

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | Lives like his were proof that the German philosophy of freedom planted real roots in American institutions before and after the War over Slavery.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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Symphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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 🧵)

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

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svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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-...

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The 2025 Franz Rosenzweig Summer Academy, hosted by the Goethe Institut — Boston - 36 LEARNING MATTERS

Grapple in a highly collaborative environment with Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel und der Stadt, building German and interpretive skills. As a capstone experience, you will compete in the final week for the...

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Esther Neuhann @estherneuhann.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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...

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In Focus: New Perspectives on Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808)

Article In Focus: New Perspectives on Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808) was published on February 1, 2025 in the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (volume 73, issue 1).

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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...

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Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation

NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...

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Genese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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...

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Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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...

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Michael Rothberg | Universal Values

On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri...

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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...

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FICHTEANA - Latest Issue

FICHTEANA 24 (2024) (To read: click on the pop-out feature at the top right-hand corner)

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

New Tortoise single is solid. More please.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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...

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The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate

The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself

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Alex Lefebvre @lefebvrealex.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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...

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Self-Conscious Liberalism

BENJAMIN BALL | Freedom, generosity, all of these core tenets of liberalism are already embedded in what it means to do democracy well...

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𝕶𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖐 Redux @kritikredux.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I wrote something on Pippin on Heidegger on German Idealism

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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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...

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The Meaningfulness of Being: What Remains Unthought in German Idealism

DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...

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