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Steffen Bonhoff

@steffensgeist.bsky.social

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Philosopher 💭 🇩🇪Freiburg 🇺🇸Stanford 🇪🇸Barcelona ❤️ 🐶 & 🎧 www.steffenbonhoff.com

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The brain may be the condition for experience. It does not follow that it is the content of experience.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Asking what life means presupposes life is a sentence, one homo oeconomicus wrote.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also wo Hölderlin recht hat... „Ach! wie ein Knabe, seh ich zu Boden oft, Such in der Höhle Rettung von dir, und möcht, Ich Blöder, eine Stelle finden, Alleserschüttrer! wo du nicht wärest.“ - aus: Der Zeitgeist

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Does democracy contain a contradiction? Democracy legitimizes power by making it collective. But this requires bureaucracy, replacing popular control with procedure. Self-governance turns inside out: institutions we built to rule ourselves confront us as an alien force rather than our own agency.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Since the empirical demonstration that confirms a scientific theory is itself a theoretical assumption, which says that we need such an empirical demonstration, what confirms this assumption that we need an empirical demonstration?

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am a bit late to the party, but what a wonderful book „A Little Life“ by Hanya Yanagihara is.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Enjoying some time off (and food) at the beautiful Côte d'Azur

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am humbled and thrilled to see my recent paper published in #Hegel Bulletin with @universitypress.cambridge.org. In it, I attempt to gain a basic understanding of Hegel’s overall philosophical trajectory. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Hegel Introducing Hegel: Subjectivity and God in the Prefaces and Introductions of the Encyclopaedia | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core

Hegel Introducing Hegel: Subjectivity and God in the Prefaces and Introductions of the Encyclopaedia

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