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BenjaminNorris

2 years

"It is not me who recognizes this identity, but it recognizes itself, and I am merely its organ" - F.W.J. Schelling, 1804 "Würzburg Lectures", (SW I/6, 143)

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

2 years

As a thank you to everyone helping to spread the word about Schelling and Spinoza I want to give away a free copy! Like this tweet to enter and retweet to spread the word. Winner will be randomly selected on 8/20/2022 in memorial of Schelling's death. (Plant not included).

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

It exists! Absolutely blown away by the folks at @SUNYPress . The hardcover of Schelling and Spinoza looks incredible.

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

August 1st. @ SUNYPress

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BenjaminNorris

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9 months

Digging into Audronė Žukauskaitė's "Organism-Oriented Ontology". I'm only a couple chapters in, but it's incredibly refreshing to read an "X-Oriented Ontology" book that is thoroughly researched and intellectually stimulating. Plus the cover is just absolutely gorgeous.

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BenjaminNorris

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11 months

My good friend Ryan Gustafson's book has an official release date (January 2nd)! I can say with confidence that this will be one of the best books on Derrida to come out next year.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Spent the day rereading Markus Gabriel's "Transcendental Ontology". This is by far my favorite of his books. "Philosophy owes its existence to the spielraum of contingency in and with which it plays" (136).

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BenjaminNorris

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11 months

Next up is "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century" edited by @dalia__nassar and Kristin Gjesdal. Just finished the selections from Germaine de Staël. The editors have done the discipline of philosophy a tremendous service with this collection. Highly recommend.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Taking a break from writing about New Realism to dive into Naomi's new book "Schelling's Mystical Platonism". This is a fantastic piece of scholarship, and I'd highly recommend requesting that your library order a copy. You will not be disappointed.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Finished part 1 of "Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics." This book is truly about so much more than Hegel. Really wish I had access to it while writing "Schelling and Spinoza." Now on to part 2!

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

These are the two most exciting books on Hegel I have recently encountered. Highly recommend both. "Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics" is also a great resource for anyone interested in the history and importance of the Absolute in philosophy all the way up to the present.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

One of the many things I love about Schelling is the diversity of interpretations his work continues to inspire. Fulvi's book and my own are two opposed readings of Schelling and immanence. I admire what Fulvi has accomplished, and I hope our differences generate future debate.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 month

Spent today working back through Knox Peden's "Spinoza Contra Phenomenology". I'm a big fan of this book. It does a great job of balancing history, philosophy, theory, and politics. I think it's a very important work for understanding the contemporary allure of Spinoza.

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BenjaminNorris

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11 days

My copy of Fichte's "Foundation" came with a little extra bit of page. Does it contain the key to the whole system? I'll never tell.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

I think this is an under-appreciated contribution to the understanding of Jacobi's role in the development of German philosophy (idealist and otherwise). Really happy to finally have a hardcopy of my own. Highly recommend.

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BenjaminNorris

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20 days

Next up is "The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg: Theology and Resistance Between 1914-1945" by Mårten Björk. So far it's fascinating. Includes an interesting discussion of Rosenzweig and Schelling on negative vs. positive philosophy and revelation.

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BenjaminNorris

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7 months

There's something so enthralling about Hegel's early work. The contrast between the bold systematic attempts of his "mature" work and the early writings of a young philosopher trying to navigate his way through transcendental idealism is quite inspiring. A glacier indeed.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Just finished "Schelling's Mystical Platonism." Incredible book. Naomi argues Schelling is committed to a kind of mystical priority monism. I argue he is committed to a kind of rationalism as well as a unique form of existence monism (distinct from Spinoza's substance monism).

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Next up is Markus Gabriel's newest book "Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity". Probably the most extensive treatment of subjectivity in the "New Realist" tradition (at least since Gabriel's "The Meaning of Thought"). Let's see how it goes.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

1 year

Next up is Étienne Balibar's "Spinoza, the Transindividual." I missed this one when it came out, so I'm doing some catch up here. I got to meet Balibar once, and he's definitely on my list of the top 10 jolliest academics. Looking forward to the book.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

3 months

Between the years of 2019 and 2021 I moved around a lot. As a result, much of my library ended up at my dad's house. After visiting for my brother's birthday, I was able to bring some back. Reunited and it feels so good.

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BenjaminNorris

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3 months

Good read. "It appears that QAnon has become a memetic cognitohazard even amongst many of its ideological opponents whose obsession with the theory for the sake of condemning it has led to them embracing its structure as a conceptual schema for interpreting events"

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3 months

New article on the phenomenon of "BlueAnon" and the conspiracies theories made by Biden dead-enders in the final weeks of his 2024 presidential campaign

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

Today's the day! Ask your library to order a copy of Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute. It's an honor to be a part of the @SUNYPress Schelling family. I'm so humbled by all the support I've gotten already. I can't wait to hear what you all think.

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BenjaminNorris

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2 months

Doing revisions on my paper "An Ecology for the Dead: Schelling and Günderrode on Life, Death, and Decay." When my partner is gone the book piles grow. Also featuring the Boy in the background hard at work (guarding the house from neighbors, squirrels, and neighborhood cats).

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BenjaminNorris

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9 months

This looks great. You can see the table of contents here:

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Brutal week. Time for some Kant.

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BenjaminNorris

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8 months

Slowly working through some ideas. The more I research Schelling and Spinoza on revelation, miracles, and the political, the more I find they have in common. Unexpected result to be sure.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

5 months

Next up: "The Parmenidean Ascent" by Michael Della Rocca. I've been looking forward to this one. I love the way Della Rocca writes. So clear, conversational, and engaging. In my opinion, one of the most exciting contemporary philosophers hands down.

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Della Rocca has some fun at the end of "The Parmenidean Ascent." Always nice to see.

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BenjaminNorris

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9 days

I've gotta say, what Breazeale accomplished with this translation is clearly a new gold standard in German Idealism. Can't wait to revisit Schelling's "Vom Ich" once I make it through all the deductions.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

5 months

Physical copies exist!!! Wolfram Hogrebe "Predication and Genesis: Metaphysics as Fundamental Heuristic after Schelling's 'The Ages of the World'" edited and translated by Iain Hamilton Grant and Jason M. Wirth with an afterword by Markus Gabriel. Huge thanks to @EdinburghUP

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BenjaminNorris

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7 months

Relatedly, in "Schelling and Spinoza" I briefly discuss how "Death's End" can elucidate certain fundamental differences between the conceptions of nature in Spinoza, Kant, and Schelling.

BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

7 months

Finished the Three-Body show over the weekend and immediately started rereading the series (I'm sure I'm not alone here). If you haven't experienced the full series I highly recommend it. The Dark Forest and Death's End are really impressive.

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Less than a week until "Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802" by Naomi Fisher comes out from @OUPAcademic . I don't think I'll be able to afford it for a while, but I sure am excited to read it once I can.

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BenjaminNorris

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11 months

Absolutely hooked on Karoline von Günderrode. Would love some recommendations for secondary lit, particularly surrounding the role of death in "The Idea of the Earth".

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Anna Ezekiel

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5 months

Out now! “The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition” ed. Gjesdal & Nassar. 15 chapters on “Figures,” 7 chapters on “Movements” & 9 chapters on “Topics." I wrote the chapter on Karoline von Günderrode:

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Meillassoux's "The Number and the Siren" is one of my all time favorite works of philosophy. I think it's impossible to understand the broader significance of his project without placing this work at the center of his thinking. Also pairs great with a Double Bane of Existence.

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BenjaminNorris

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2 months

Looking for a kick of inspiration as the summer winds down. "The true Self determines itself by mirroring its own image, and so we consciously see only the shadow of the Self" Kitaro Nishida "The Intelligible World" pg. 46.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

"Pleromatica" proposes a synthesis of Kantianism and Spinozism as a way out of the ungrounding impasse of modernity showing once again that the Pantheism Controversy is still alive and well.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Finishing up my review of "Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent."

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BenjaminNorris

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7 months

Fichte has some of the best footnotes: "Whoever is indignant that I said this, for him I did not say it. But I know readers to whom one must certainly say it" ("Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation", pg. 56 note a).

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24 days

My article "Necro-Ecology in Günderrode’s “The Idea of the Earth”: Life, Death, and Naturphilosophie beyond Schelling" is now available online from Idealistic Studies. Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this one possible.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Got a little something in the mail today: "Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent." Big thanks to Daniele Fulvi and @routledgebooks for sending this my way. Looking forward to jumping in.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Ok, I guess it's happening. Writing about Gabriel's unsatisfactory response to the "Facts without Objects" objection (formulated by @GregorySMoss2 ) and presenting a general critique of the function of definitions in New Realism.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Finished "Spinoza, the Epicurean." Really solid work. Indispensable resource for any future research on the TTP. I think I disagree with some of the discussions about Trump and authority, but the Epicurean angle pays off in general. Next up "Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom."

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BenjaminNorris

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2 months

Finished the Keller book. It was fun but not as helpful as I was hoping. Now finally to Herder's "Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind." "This invisible commerce of hearts and minds is the sole and greatest benefit of the printing press" (4).

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

1 year

I love this cover. Enjoying the book so far as well.

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Revisiting "The Absolute in History" Kasper's high quality and somewhat underappreciated study of Schelling: "The diversity of interpretations shows perhaps that Schelling cannot be place into a system, but that, as a great and solitary man, he is still awaiting his time" (44).

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

I'm getting prepared for something exciting!

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

The footnotes in Schelling's "First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature" are so good: "Ridley tells of a turtle which after having its head cut off lived for six months and ran around as if a burdensome ballast was taken from it" (146, fn. ‡)

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BenjaminNorris

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11 months

Started "Freedom and Ground: A Study of Schelling's Treatise on Freedom" by Mark J. Thomas. Only 24 pages in and I can confirm that @aufgehenderRest is correct. The book is very, very good.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

1 year

Beginning the final chapter of "Experience and Eternity in Spinoza." Very much looking forward to the capstone of the argument. Gonna be bummed when I'm done.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Spent the day revisiting Schelling's 1802 dialogue "Bruno, or, On the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things." Bruno: "Hence both for realism and idealism, the absolute is identically the object of the highest mode of knowledge" (214).

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

1 year

Moved through some of the shorter commentaries pretty quickly, but next up is Moreau's "Experience and Eternity in Spinoza." At just around 600 pages I think this will keep me busy for a while. Finished the translator's introduction, and I'm very excited to jump in.

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Working through some new ideas on life, death, and Naturphilosophie in Schelling and Günderrode. Hit a bit of a roadblock today but hoping to gain some momentum tomorrow. "The earth itself has this double life" (KvG, 76).

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Revisiting "The Schelling - Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity" from Berger and Whistler. "There is an idealism of nature and an idealism of the I. For me, the former is original, the latter is derived" (Schelling, "On the True Concept", pg. 48).

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

My review of Daniele Fulvi's "Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent: From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics" is now available at @SymposiumCSCP You can find it here:

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

4 months

Spent the last few days revisiting Deleuze's "Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza". It's been a while, and my relationship to this book seems to wane over time. It did make me want to reread the Bergson book though.

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BenjaminNorris

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8 months

This is exciting: "Spinoza and Contemporary Biology: Lectures on the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitivism" by Henri Atlan is coming out in October from @EdinburghUP . Table of Contents available here:

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Revisiting Schelling's "Clara, or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World." "isn't it fitting that these autumn flowers should be consecrated to the dead, who hand us cheerful flowers from their dark chambers in spring" (9).

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

8 months

If you are interested in Schelling's political theory I would recommend reading the following articles:

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

7 months

Next up: "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" by Adrian Johnston from @ColumbiaUP . Adrian is a good friend, and I've been following his work for years. I'm excited to see what kind of mischief he gets up to in this one.

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Taking a break from Schelling's late political philosophy and returning to his earlier naturphilosophie. My copy of the "Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature" is falling apart. Kind of a bummer, but if life is "a continual decombination of bound actants" it seems appropriate.

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BenjaminNorris

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3 months

Revisiting an all-time favorite: Derrida's "To Speculate - On 'Freud'". "Writing affects the very surface of its support. And this non-belonging unleashes speculation" (283).

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

10 months

This book is going to be very good. Super excited for its release.

Chris Satoor

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10 months

This March 2024 (So proud of my friend Naomi Fisher) "Fisher argues that Schelling is committed to two overarching theses, which comprise his mystical Platonism."

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

History of philosophy thought experiment: What would the reception of Spinoza have looked like if Bayle didn't include his Spinoza entry in the "Historical and Critical Dictionary"?

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BenjaminNorris

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10 months

It came! "Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and Difference" by @HeikkiIkaheimo . I've been looking forward to this one for a while.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Huge thanks to everyone who showed up to my talk on Jacobi, realism, and idealism. I will share the video once it is ready.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

5 months

8th meeting of the North American Schelling Society is all wrapped up. Great papers, great people, great conversations. Can't wait for NASS 9. Pictured: Marcela and Jason discussing crisis, decision, and the temporality of Schelling's late philosophy.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 month

I know many of us Schelling folks are looking forward to the November release of this new translation of "On the Deities of Samothrace". I just noticed some great news. It will simultaneously be released as a hardcover and a more affordable paperback! Huge thanks to @iupress

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Finished Dan Taylor's ( @dantaylor42 ) "Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom." Well written with lots of historical/biographical insights. The argument for collective freedom is essential for understanding the contemporary promise of Spinoza's political theory, as Dan argues.

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BenjaminNorris

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8 months

"I know all too well that for some I will be a nuisance" (F.W.J. Schelling, Philosophy of Revelation: 1841-42 Berlin Lectures, pg. 32).

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

Just finished The Self-Emptying Subject by @closethattab . Highly recommend. I found the fourth chapter on Hegel particularly interesting. Will definitely be using some of these ideas for an in progress piece on Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation.

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BenjaminNorris

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10 months

"With the same assurance with which I count on the floor to support me when I step on it, and on the fire to burn me were I to approach it, I want to be able to count on what I myself am and what I will be" J.G. Fichte, "Die Bestimmung des Menschen" pg. 4.

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BenjaminNorris

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10 months

What was your favorite book that you read for the first time this year? For me it was definitely "Experience and Eternity in Spinoza".

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Organizing a new project on Spinoza, speech, and freedom. The general idea is to focus on his concepts of bodies, affects, and conatus. Found the first part of Sharp's book helpful. Next on to @DimVardoulakis 's "Spinoza, the Epicurean".

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

So far, I have been very impressed by this book. Zunic unpacks the unique anthropology central to understanding the distinction Schelling draws between positive and negative philosophy.

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BenjaminNorris

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11 months

This is huge. June 2024: Wolfram Hogrebe's "Predication and Genesis: Metaphysics as Fundamental Heuristic after Schelling's 'The Ages of the World'" will be available from @EdinburghUP

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BenjaminNorris

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3 months

Reread "The Dash" by Rebecca Comay & Frank Ruda today. I always find this book to be a bit frustrating. The co-written parts are very interesting, but the essays in Part II fall short for me. "Life is alive only when it breaks down and encounters its own limits" (25).

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Article submitted. Now the waiting begins.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Question: In his Munich Lectures "On the History of Modern Philosophy" Schelling claims he never went to Fichte's lectures. From the context I think he's talking about the lectures in Jena. He says he points this out to "counter untruth". Anyone have more details on this?

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

New commentary on Schelling's Freedom Essay incoming from @SUNYPress Freedom and Ground: A Study of Schelling's Treatise on Freedom May 2023

Freedom and Ground

This book is a new interpretation of Schelling's path-breaking 1809 treatise on freedom, the last major work published during his lifetime. The treatise is at the heart of the current Schelling...

sunypress.edu

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BenjaminNorris

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20 days

I now have a copy of the final version. I can't post it online, but if you are interested just reach out and I'll send it to you. (I'm pretty proud of this paper and am eager to hear what folks think).

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24 days

My article "Necro-Ecology in Günderrode’s “The Idea of the Earth”: Life, Death, and Naturphilosophie beyond Schelling" is now available online from Idealistic Studies. Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this one possible.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Please please please can we get a second printing of the Schelling collection "The Unconditional in Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays (1794-1796)"? How can we make this happen?

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

HOPS is a great society. I'd highly recommend submitting.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Doing the final edits on my contribution to the next issue of Kabiri, the official journal of the North American Schelling Society. Big thanks to the editors and reviewers. You can check out the previous volumes (for free!!!) here:

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1 year

Really enjoyed "Spinoza, the Transindividual." So many rich conceptual resources. Next up is "Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza" by Chantal Jaquet. @EdinburghUP has put out a very impressive collection of Spinoza commentaries, and I'm sure this one too will not disappoint

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1 year

I'm a few (lengthy) chapters into "Experience and Eternity in Spinoza" and I was not prepared for how good this book is. This might be controversial, but I think it's better than Deleuze's "Expressionism in Philosophy." Fascinating method and artful close reading.

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BenjaminNorris

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3 months

Back to the identity philosophy: “The decaying object or system folds back into its minimal body and lineaments (less than a thing, more than nothing) and at the same time unfolds into other beings which are differentiated from it through decay" (Cyclonopedia, 184).

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

After making my way through a handful of pretty bad books, I'm back to reading something enjoyable: "The Politics of Transindividuality" by Jason Read ( @Unemployedneg ). Almost done with the first chapter and I'm really appreciating the methodological sensitivity.

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BenjaminNorris

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2 years

I can't recommend this book by @CharlotteAlde18 highly enough. It provides the most compelling case for a strong continuity between Schelling's Naturphilosophie and the Freedom essay while remaining mindful of the decisive shifts that take place between the two.

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BenjaminNorris

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7 months

Finished the Three-Body show over the weekend and immediately started rereading the series (I'm sure I'm not alone here). If you haven't experienced the full series I highly recommend it. The Dark Forest and Death's End are really impressive.

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BenjaminNorris

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4 months

Sucks that "All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism" by Paul Franks is super unaffordable. I've got a PDF, but I hate reading on the computer. Really solid work Harvard University Press. Thanks for nothing.

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BenjaminNorris

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30 days

Working through the proofs of my article on death and decay in Günderrode for the forthcoming issue of Idealistic Studies. Gotta say, these folks are all gas no brakes (quite refreshing given the usual pace of academic publishing). I'm very glad that the Alchemist came to town.

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BenjaminNorris

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5 months

Huge summer sale over at SUNY Press ( @SUNYPress ). If you were interested in putting "Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute" on your summer reading list, this would be a great opportunity to pick up a copy. The discount code is in the picture below.

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BenjaminNorris

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6 months

Today is the day! If you, like myself, do not have $90 sitting around for a book (though I'm sure it's worth every penny) put in a request through your library so they can add it to their collection. And of course, huge congratulations to Naomi!

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6 months

Less than a week until "Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802" by Naomi Fisher comes out from @OUPAcademic . I don't think I'll be able to afford it for a while, but I sure am excited to read it once I can.

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BenjaminNorris

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1 year

Finished Richard Boothby's highly stimulating "Embracing the Void" and now I'm excited to start "Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics" by @GregorySMoss2 . Read the introduction and I'm hooked.

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@AbsoluteOrgan

1 year

Returning to the work of an old frenemy. The historical importance of Jacobi's work continues to gain the attention it deserves, but what goes overlooked is the specter of Jacobi that continues to haunt anti-rationalist and anti-idealist philosophies.

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

6 months

Resource for all things Jacobi including the important fact that despite appearances, he is not Kant.

Hannes Kerber

@HannesKerber

10 months

💥 Fantastische Nachrichten! 💥 Das Jacobi-Wörterbuch ist nun offiziell online! Herausgegeben von Birgit Sandkaulen, Stefan Schick und Oliver Koch bei @SAW_Leipzig .

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

2 years

My friend Tim Franz and the GFPJ have published a translation of Maimon's "On the World-Soul (Entelechia Universi)". Tim also has a commentary on the text available in this issue.

On the World-Soul (Entelechia Universi) - Volume 41, Issue 2, 2020

www.pdcnet.org

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BenjaminNorris

@AbsoluteOrgan

2 years

My research assistant is falling asleep on the job.

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