Jonathan Webber

‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

“Can someone with skills clean this up and make a 10-hour YouTube version?”
#sheffield

Fraggle Rock

Here you go —

open.spotify.com/track/0uHLLU...

I’m currently reading this too! Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

redactio ad absurdum

The Best Philosophy Books of the Decade - Five Books Expert Recommendations It’s a golden age for popular books about philosophy, as the challenges of modern life encourage people to seek wisdom from those whose job—at least in principle—is to seek it. Whether it’s new…

Every year for the past decade, our philosophy editor, Nigel Warburton, has picked his best five philosophy books of the year. Here are all his choices -- from Buddhism to utilitarianism and Hannah Arendt to Zhuangzi:
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“Existential phenomenology, far from being an esoteric philosophical discipline, has crucial political importance in helping people collectively see themselves as agents of change.”

Excellent short article from Tris Hedges —

Almost as though an edit was hastily made at the last minute to the original title of More Lethality, Less Legality

#philsky

30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM

about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

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The difference between them.

How they relate to 'if, then', 'only if', 'if and only if', 'all', and 'only'.

Fallacies of confusing them (and relation to affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent).

On the right side: image of the cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, edited by me. On the left side, the following text: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging 22 November, 10 - 11.30am Exploring existentialist views on bullshit, from Kierkegaard's ‘chatter’ and Heidegger's ‘idle talk’ to Beauvoir's ‘popular wisdom’ and Sartre's development of these ideas to critique societal divisions. Online talk given by Jonathan Webber, editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY Tickets: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling

I'm giving an online talk on Saturday morning with the
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling

:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::

mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger

Everyone is welcome!

Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb

Photo of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, edited by Jonathan Webber

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”

—Simone de Beauvoir

In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy 'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café ‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...

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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

edited by me

is published today in the UK!

(Australia and North America publication is next February.)

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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy 'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café ‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...

✨✨

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

edited by me

is published today in the UK!

(Australia and North America publication is next February.)

✨✨

Detail from the book's cover art.

🎈Book launch!

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber

Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA

Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!

Also: congratulations!

Suspect that’ll be surprising news to both @jonathanbirch.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social

Superb! Congratulations!

Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome

Nationalise

Police officer, running up to me: "Stop, what's that brown liquid you're pouring into the drain?"

Me: "It's 1,000 gallons of untreated sewage"

PO: "Phew, I thought for a minute it was a few dregs of coffee"

Post-16 education and skills white paper Post-16 education and skills reforms to develop a skilled workforce and break down barriers to opportunity.

Post 16 White Paper is out at last
www.gov.uk/government/p...

I think it's excessive to remove all his titles. He should have just been downgraded to The Marquis Of Granby, or maybe The Slug And Lettuce.

“We should support universities. We should cherish the value of what they do and recognise that if we run them down for sport we will not realise what we’ve lost until it’s gone. And, just once in a while, we should give students a break.”

The joy of university For those who are privileged to go to university, they get three years suspended between childhood and the adult world

“the accumulated knowledge of generations … is stored in universities as it is stored nowhere else, and it continues to be produced there, patiently and as far as the wide world goes almost anonymously, by generations of scholars in communion with each-other”

Snap!

With the comma in a different place it could be a native of Sheffield explaining to any one person that their affections cannot be won over by gifts.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

The same is true in chess. Best way to disguise your mistakes there is to play as noisily as you can.

‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers

British monarchy encloses 150 acres of public land for their private use.

Yes! Especially as it’s about three times the length of Philosophical Fragments.