Gabe Gottlieb
Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Been self-positing since the '70s. All opinions belong to my 'I think.'
- Did you hear that the Texas A&M library burned down? It's ok, a brave administrator was able to recover all three books. Thankfully, the two coloring books were in pristine condition; the other was Plato's "Symposium" - so he just threw it back into the flames.
- Berlin peeps! This is happening Thursday and Friday. Fichte and embodiment? What else could you possibly want from this world?
- How can the body be a "sphere of freedom"? Discuss Fichte's response with us at cpkp.net/event/fichte... (Nov 27-28, 2025) - w/ M Kosch, J Schmid, @estherneuhann.bsky.social, @gabegottlieb.bsky.social, M Jimena Solé, A Abazari, S Schuez, G A Bruno
- Excited for this conference on Fichte's philosophy of embodiment. Registration open.
- Welcome to our conference on Fichte’s philosophy of embodiment @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! 🌲 Please register with Jelscha (see poster)! Detailed program will follow!
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebPreprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 4). Laurent Guyot, Philosophies de la création artistique (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2022). Recension de Francis Haselden symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebPreprints 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
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebPreprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20... 2). Manfred Frank, Die Struktur der Subjektivität: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Dieter Henrich (Klostermann, 2024). Rezension von Bo Tang symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebPreprints 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
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebI 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 🧵)
- Single Kantians now wondering if they can pass as hedonists at the next APA.
- Dissertations used to be like a book, but then the 3 article dissertation became popular. Next is the Substack dissertation.
- Reposted by Gabe Gottliebanybody 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-...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebCheck out this special issue "New Perspectives on Fichte‘s Reden an die deutsche Nation“ 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 don‘t have access. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Imagine if Hegel's Logic started with "nothing" - would be a much quicker read.
- 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.
- endlich die Dieter Bohlen / Ben Frost collabo, auf die wir alle gewartet haben youtu.be/Qr1_6Z3CgAs?...
- Gillian Rose thinks even Adorno's a neo-Fichtean. Didn't see that coming.
- 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...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebYes, such a beautiful, rich, wide-ranging and important essay. Thank you, Gabe.
- 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...
- All these kids out on campus soaking up the sun on a beautiful day. Disgusts me.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Hegel's dialectical method? No! Fichte's synthetic method.
- 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! sites.google.com/view/fichtea...
- New Tortoise single is solid. More please.
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebAcross the last 48 hours, “Signalgate” 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...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebExcellent 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...
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebI wrote something on Pippin on Heidegger on German Idealism
- 1. Last year I took on the role of Associate Editor of Philosophy @ Marginalia Review of Books. I'm excited to share the first two pieces I commissioned/edited. First is @kritikredux.bsky.social's review of Robert Pippin's The Culmination. A must read. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-mea...
- 1. Last year I took on the role of Associate Editor of Philosophy @ Marginalia Review of Books. I'm excited to share the first two pieces I commissioned/edited. First is @kritikredux.bsky.social's review of Robert Pippin's The Culmination. A must read. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-mea...
- 2. The second is a review of Alexandre Lefebvre's excellent "Liberalism as a Way of Life" by Benjamin Ball. Ball asks whether we ought to consider democracy as a way of life. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/self-co...
- 3. Feel free to hit me up if you have a pitch for a review. We have some more excellent philosophy reviews coming, I hope, in the next month or two.
- Is it possible that Cambridge Elements, when downloaded for free, can't be printed? Other PDFs printing fine, but a relatively new CE won't - though I did print one I downloaded a long time ago. Curious.
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebWe recorded the short explainers on our Margin Notes V1 pieces—and uploaded them as Episode 0 of our new podcast, “Critique of the Podcast Form (a critical theory podcast)”! If you have any suggestions for themes texts or guests, let us know! & enjoy!
- Can we just skip the Trump dictatorship and go directly to the dictatorship of the proletariat?
- Been adding people here and there, including just now @karenkyng.bsky.social, so check it out and share widely, folks. go.bsky.app/M8EW1waat://did:plc:gearovk2zipvvk4jgk53rhna/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lam7tihxwr2n
- Was thinking of becoming a "pluralistic lexical consequentialist' but I prefer ethical theories that come in three syllables.
- Watched A Real Pain - was a real delight. Such an interesting Holocaust film.
- Accidentally left my laptop at work. Guess that means I can't grade all those papers students submitted online. Really disappointed. Now, what should I read?
- Reposted by Gabe GottliebFriends & Fellow Colleagues: I am very excited to release the latest episode of The Young Idealist Series. A Special Book Presentation featuring Dr. Owen Ware (U of T). on his new book: Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...
- Vegetarians can actually eat Elon Musk because he's beyond rich.
- Canceled my subscription the other day to save a few bucks + was regreting it - not a big savings, tbh. Now glad I did. Looks like the Washington Post is now accelerating the death of democracy as its opinion pages become an explicit extension of the capitalist class. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
- According to David Friedrich Strauß, Hegel had beautiful teeth.
- Thinking about how my Dad was born during WWII & after my grandmother, who imigrated from Czechoslovakia, told me this as a kid, I always imagined them huddled in a small room with bombs going off in the city around them. In reality he was chilling in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood in Cleveland.
- Finally, getting around to this wonderful book. Only a couple chapters in but his historical/contextualist approach is great - stems from Reinhart Kosselleck rather than folks like Skinner or Henrich. The idea that the Idealists were writing during a Sattelzeit shapes much of his interpretation.
