Ateş Uslu

Today and tomorrow: “Environmental Humanities Meets the History of Knowledge,” an interdisciplinary workshop organized at the University of Konstanz ( @uni-konstanz.de ). I will speak on “Reconsidering Nature: Lukács’s Ontological Turn and Its Contemporary Relevance,” alongside excellent colleagues.

The 1981 Stuttgart Hegel Congress—where D. Henrich, R. Spaemann, J. Habermas, and O. Pöggeler were keynote speakers, and where philosophers from the Eastern Bloc (Oizerman, Buhr...) presented alongside Gadamer, Rorty, Labarrière, and D’Hondt...
We need to discuss more about the circulation of ideas.

Unfortunately, no, but some of the articles included in that book have already been published in these languages. You can find some of them on Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/scholar?star...
And this one: gyorgylukacs.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I had the chance to attend one of his seminars at the EHESS (Paris) in 2005. He was 76 years old at the time, and I was mesmerized by his energy and enthusiasm - the seminar lasted more than five hours, and he spoke almost without interruption the entire time.

Nicolas Tertulian, Modernité et antihumanisme. Les combats philosophiques de Georg Lukács, Paris, Klincksieck, 2019

Nicolas Tertulian was one of the foremost scholars of Lukács. The articles collected in this book are excellent examples of his ability to combine historical methods—marked by an erudite reading and contextualization of a variety of texts, especially those of Heidegger—with philosophical critique.

On board a Deutsche Bahn train heading to Berlin, in the midst of semi-insomnia, I check my itinerary and suddenly find myself transported to the late 19th- and early 20th-century history of German social democracy.

The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X 🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat

Truly and deeply honoured
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This evening: A conference organized by the Chair of the History of Knowledge (Prof. Anne Kwaschik) at the University of Konstanz — “Translating Hitler,” by Olivier Mannoni.

There might be a problem with the URL, or it could just be my browser.

Hegel and Colonialism Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

How fascinating that this book was published just a few days before my session on "The Specter of the Haitian Revolution: Kant and Hegel on Slave Labour and the Racial Division of Labour." ☺️

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Hegel and Colonialism, by Daniel James and Franz Knappik. Open Access at cup.org/3LqOwGa

Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...

Nobody seems to have noticed, but the event is actually scheduled to Tuesday, *4 November* (and not the 5th).

Herr Kollege Uslu ist derzeit Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Konstanz. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt seit Jahren im politischen Denken Lukács’. Kolleg:innen in und um Konstanz möchte ich das Kolloquium besonders empfehlen.

Freely available as a PDF on our website 💕

marxistiskestudier.com/danish-marxi...

Unfortunately not, but the manuscript is in progress:)

Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.

Georg Lukács Commemoration Day in Heidelberg (Press Release)

Túró Rudi

Túró Rudi

Pogácsa

Zserbó Slice

Try these:
-Túró Rudi
-Pogácsa (avoid the "tepertős" [pork fat] version, if vegetarian)
-Zserbó/Gerbeaud Slice (the classical version can be found in Budapest, but you can probably find a good one at a bakery in Debrecen)

Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026 From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new website and the opening of the Call for Papers for Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026! Please visit our website here: www.hmistanbul.org

Coll: Colloquium Modern History

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158222

Konstanz, 21.10.2025-03.02.2026, AG Kolář, Universität Konstanz

The final event of the Lukács Day: roundtable.

‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.

Thank you! Week 1's readings are already expanded with further recommendations, by the way.

Upcoming on 4 November:

www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de/fach/vortrae...

The syllabus for my Winter semester course, “Work and Gender in Political Thought (18th–19th c.),” is now online: atesuslu.com/genel/syllab...

For now, it includes only the main readings and will be expanded with additional materials throughout the semester.

30. Historical materialist literature on intellectual history is stagnating. Marxists should focus on doing actual critical work instead of sticking to the “the Left should learn from that conservative philosopher” kind of stuff. Follow the feminist historians for guidance, y’all.

Sorry for the late reply (two months!). I still need to read Holz on this,but I believe he is referring to Heinemann’s thesis, according to which P. conceives the One as "the unity of the rational and the irrational."More recent scholars tend to deny any element of irrationality in P.’s metaphysics.

29. This was also an opinion: bsky.app/profile/ates...

Tayeb Tisini, Die Materieauffassung in der islamisch-arabischen Philosophie des Mittelalters, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1972.

28. Tisini's book on the conceptions of matter in Islamic thought is far better executed than Bloch's "Aristotelian Left." Yet the former remains almost entirely forgotten, while the latter is well read and widely translated. More translations of Tisini's works from Arabic are much needed.

Istvan Meszaros Philosophy, Ideology, and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation