Tom Vaswani

Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books …

Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/08/g...

And also Louis Hartnoll >> @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social

Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

Long line of RAPUP-UAW members marching outside the trustees’ meeting

Many RAPUP members holding a banner and union signs out on the street

Inside the Inn at Penn, Trustees are making decisions none of us will ever have a say in. Out here, many of the workers whose research makes Penn a university are reading out their letter calling on Penn to respect their voice and let @rapup-uaw.bsky.social vote for their union

Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

Day 2, tomorrow

With (inter alia) Robert Lucas Scott, Rebekah Howes, and Prof Kate Schick

Opening panel with Profs. Nick Gane and Nigel Tubbs

This evening's Keynote, with Prof. Elliot Wolfson www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/facul...

#gillianrose #crmep

@nickgane.bsky.social
@swedenborghouse.bsky.social

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose

The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...

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👋🏽 fellow philosopher of history ! Wie gehts ?

Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.

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This is Obi-Wan Tinker. The force is strong.

I know. It’s great isn’t it? Lots of enthusiasm. Let’s see how it pans out.

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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...

‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’

In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Old review of a book -- apologies, on Mastodon I could give you the while text of it.

Jenny Turner's essay on Gillian Rose is excellent. In 1995 I had the somewhat awkward task of 'reviewing' Love's Work for The New Statesman. I still don't quite follow the thinking about the sources of 'power' in her work, esp. late on; glad the early lectures are now published.

Perfectly reasonable grounds for (not) doing so.

IR Thucydides =/= Thucydides

Woah, I didn’t even get a number 😳

👍🏽 any chance we can get him on this platform ? #united

Wife: “this is not dystopia. Yet”

I think it’s what p/s does outside of p/s that matters. There’s a wholesomeness to being unaware in wider culture. That’s the scale of the challenge. (I think)

Building some critical mass on here. #mufc

“To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.”

#1 in series of scholarly acknowledgements:

“To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.”

#Hegel does this to/for you

Once, during an in-class “peer review” when suggestions and such like are shared, a PoliSci comparativist advised against speaking too slowly as “they might understand you”. Sad and true.

😜 Famous historical scene yadayada Jena in 1806 when Napoleon rode around triumphant-like yadayada and fanboi Hegel saw him and later wrote that he saw “the world spirit on horseback” yadayada

I wonder if Hegel will be making an appearance in the Napoleon movie … 🤔

Ouch!

Here’s Tinker in her Fall camouflage outfit.