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Gabe Gottlieb

@gabegottlieb.bsky.social

Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Been self-positing since the '70s. All opinions belong to my 'I think.'

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Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

4). Laurent Guyot, Philosophies de la crΓ©ation artistique (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022).

Recension de Francis Haselden

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30.09.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

30.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

2). Manfred Frank, Die Struktur der SubjektivitΓ€t: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Dieter Henrich (Klostermann, 2024).

Rezension von Bo Tang

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30.09.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

30.09.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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 🧡)

24.09.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29587    πŸ” 9954    πŸ’¬ 733    πŸ“Œ 1555

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

30.07.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

22.07.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 2025 Franz Rosenzweig Summer Academy, hosted by the Goethe Institut β€” 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...

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-...

29.06.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool! Excited to check it out.

26.06.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 fΓΌr Philosophie (volume 73, issue 1).

Check out this special issue "New Perspectives on Fichteβ€˜s Reden an die deutsche Nationβ€œ 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 donβ€˜t have access.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

26.06.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

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.

16.06.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Genau.

15.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

15.06.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

06.06.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.06.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

31.05.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gillian Rose thinks even Adorno's a neo-Fichtean. Didn't see that coming.

31.05.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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...

19.05.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You've lived a wonder-full life and inspired many to do the same. The philosophical world will be a darker place without your light - I hope many of us will learn to live up to your example. Best wishes for a loving and peaceful exit.

12.05.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

30.04.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.04.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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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Michael Rothberg | Universal Values On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri...

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...

11.04.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

10.04.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hegel's dialectical method? No! Fichte's synthetic method.

08.04.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
FICHTEANA - Latest Issue FICHTEANA 24 (2024) (To read: click on the pop-out feature at the top right-hand corner)

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!

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04.04.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New Tortoise single is solid. More please.

29.03.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

Across the last 48 hours, β€œSignalgate” 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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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...

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...

25.03.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote something on Pippin on Heidegger on German Idealism

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