Wrote an obituary for the great JGA Pocock for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/12/…

“I still have many things to say, but I’m afraid this would become a matter of pure erudition.” This is Montesquieu (Pensées 1831) with a line that should close your next article.

📢 New BLOG 📢 Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment (2023) is based on his Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought, delivered at Oxford in 2019. To mark the publication of his book, Whatmore spoke to Richard Bourke (The Cambridge School)⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/richar…

I never understood this excitement over Nadezhdin. I appreciate that he was perceived as the last straw for Russia's drowning liberalism, and that "you have to do something" (and it was important to show that there was a popular opposition even in a tyranny). And yet.

"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching." - Keith Lowell Jensen

Apparently things are so bad for Europe's hegemon that FAZ published a guide about what its readers could do to help out (1. Work more, 4. Postpone your retirement, and so on)

She wants to join the Young Hegelians

Es braucht Mut, den Verstand zu gebrauchen: Immanuel Kant forderte die Menschen zum Denken auf und provozierte die Gebildeten. ⁦NZZ⁩ Otfried Höffe #ImmanuelKant300 #Kant nzz.ch/feuilleton/der…

Happy 300th birthday to my best friend, Manny Kant! You don’t look a day over 29.

Ein bislang unbekannter Druck gibt neue Einblicke in die Entstehungsgeschichte einer der bemerkenswertesten Kompositionen des 17. Jhs. Mehr zu den "Musikalischen Exequien" des Dresdner Hofkapellmeisters Heinrich Schütz finden Sie hier: blog-fbg.uni-erfurt.de/?p=10081 Universität Erfurt

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Call for Papers: Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought, 1400-1800 Deadline: 10 January 2025 (midnight PST) Submission webpage: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Heute vor 400 Jahren starb der Görlitzer Philosoph und Mystiker Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), der mit seinen Schriften in der Nachfolge der christlichen Renaissance neu über den göttlichen Ursprung der Welt nachdachte und damit die deutsche Philosophie nach ihm entscheidend prägte .

Joe Weisenthal To be fair, Istvan Hont makes a pretty convincing demonstration in Jealousy of Trade that the *discourse* over things like tariffs really hasn’t moved on from the arguments of the 17th and 18th centuries, regardless of the actual mechanics.

timeless

Alastair MacIntyre taught us what modern moral philosophy could be. He will be missed.

Temptation of St Anthony

OTD 75 years ago Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his sister Elena: "Don't read Sartre—fashionable nonsense, already forgotten, and Miller is talentless obscenity. When I want good reading, I reread Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu or Joyce's Ulysses."