Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
don't kno if it's comforting or terrifying that I think Spinoza's argument for what "god" is is pretty convincing
August 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
don't kno if it's comforting or terrifying that I think Spinoza's argument for what "god" is is pretty convincing
HAPPY SPINOZA'S BIRTHDAY!!
November 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
HAPPY SPINOZA'S BIRTHDAY!!
"no other early modern thinker was as uncompromising as Spinoza in terms of secularism."
Too many of y'all skip over Spinoza when you talk about the Enlightenment and it's grossssssss
Too many of y'all skip over Spinoza when you talk about the Enlightenment and it's grossssssss
Spinoza’s Radical Enlightenment - Left Voice
The Radical Enlightenment starts with Baruch Spinoza’s materialist philosophy. There is a direct line from Spinoza to Marx and Engels via the French Revolution.
www.leftvoice.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"no other early modern thinker was as uncompromising as Spinoza in terms of secularism."
Too many of y'all skip over Spinoza when you talk about the Enlightenment and it's grossssssss
Too many of y'all skip over Spinoza when you talk about the Enlightenment and it's grossssssss
I wrote a thing and now it's in a new book
February 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I wrote a thing and now it's in a new book
9AM: brainstorming a truly erudite script on Spinoza’s Ethics, transphobia, and city planning
11AM: going to buy 27 hot dogs and 27 beers
12PM: shooting the dumbest video anyone has ever made
wish me luck
11AM: going to buy 27 hot dogs and 27 beers
12PM: shooting the dumbest video anyone has ever made
wish me luck
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
9AM: brainstorming a truly erudite script on Spinoza’s Ethics, transphobia, and city planning
11AM: going to buy 27 hot dogs and 27 beers
12PM: shooting the dumbest video anyone has ever made
wish me luck
11AM: going to buy 27 hot dogs and 27 beers
12PM: shooting the dumbest video anyone has ever made
wish me luck
next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Spinoza's Ethics (Chicago) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
In Baruch Spinoza’s magnum opus, the Ethics, he writes: “That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which he exists.” This formula—Deus sive Natura, God ...
thebrooklyninstitute.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
going back in time so i can whisper "hawk tuah girl launched a meme coin" in baby spinoza's ear
December 5, 2024 at 3:25 PM
going back in time so i can whisper "hawk tuah girl launched a meme coin" in baby spinoza's ear
after that:
(and hopefully finishing Spinoza's Ethics)
(and hopefully finishing Spinoza's Ethics)
March 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
after that:
(and hopefully finishing Spinoza's Ethics)
(and hopefully finishing Spinoza's Ethics)
I was shocked to discover that The Substance wasn’t about Spinoza’s conception of God. Guess I’ll put The Modes in my bottom drawer again.
March 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I was shocked to discover that The Substance wasn’t about Spinoza’s conception of God. Guess I’ll put The Modes in my bottom drawer again.
Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now
something really critical about committing to spinoza's idea of god is it kills the smug nausea that you're obliged to feel as an epic atheist when you talk to people who believe in something
May 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
something really critical about committing to spinoza's idea of god is it kills the smug nausea that you're obliged to feel as an epic atheist when you talk to people who believe in something
This is what Spinoza's free person does after getting blacklisted by the manchild tantrum corporation
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is what Spinoza's free person does after getting blacklisted by the manchild tantrum corporation
this is kinda what reading Spinoza's Ethics is like
February 15, 2026 at 2:08 AM
this is kinda what reading Spinoza's Ethics is like
There’s not enough appreciation of how brilliant Spinoza’s preface to the Theological-Political Treatise is.
December 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
There’s not enough appreciation of how brilliant Spinoza’s preface to the Theological-Political Treatise is.
New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on George Eliot, who translated Spinoza's 'Ethics' and was also a significant philosopher in her own right - written by Clare Carlisle:
George Eliot (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
April 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on George Eliot, who translated Spinoza's 'Ethics' and was also a significant philosopher in her own right - written by Clare Carlisle:
Reading about Spinoza’s ethics and Rateau starts with an attack on Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza. Consider my pearls clutched!
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reading about Spinoza’s ethics and Rateau starts with an attack on Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza. Consider my pearls clutched!
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies - Volume 100 Issue 1
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
On The Epistemic and Passionate Foundations of Constitutional Monarchy; (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 6) shout out to @aoprea.bsky.social
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-epi...
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-epi...
On The Epistemic and Passionate Foundations of Constitutional Monarchy; (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 6)
One of the minor oddities of Spinoza’s Political Treatise (hereafter: TP) is that chapter VII goes over the same model of ordered monarchy that was handled in chapter VI.
digressionsimpressions.substack.com
September 24, 2026 at 2:17 PM
On The Epistemic and Passionate Foundations of Constitutional Monarchy; (Spinoza’s Political Theory as Modeling, pt. 6) shout out to @aoprea.bsky.social
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-epi...
digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-epi...