Thank you, @ProfKori, for this pull-out quote from my book... the abolitionist movement is indeed FULL of both inspiration and warnings: about infighting, the promise and peril of white activism, the power in our grasp if we genuinely work together. Onward!

Congratulations! If this one is as good as the last, we are in luck!

Appreciated Ella Whiteley's nuanced piece on the promises and perils of confronting women's underrepresentation in philosophy. Working hard to get this right in our forthcoming Oxford Philosophy Handbook of US/UK women in the 19C. Onward! dalia nassar dalianassar.bsky.social @karen_kyng clinton tolley

New semester, new signage! Some might think this refers to a devise that carries students to the Spanish Department. I maintain that it refers to our department's mission statement. Elevating philosophy, one semester at a time. Cave allegory refs welcome. #philosophy

No better way to mark this anniversary than this essay by this author!

Would love to know more about this. The discourse about war’s inevitably is so pervasive…but I am also reading about historical pacifists who argued otherwise

Can't decide between 1200 concerts in 10 countries and only married for 14 years

Amen. My philosophy students have been pointing out to me how much their philosophical training has been helping them sort through difficult topics. It gives them, and me, hope.

Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child died #OTD in 1880. This quote from the dark days of the 1850s courses through my mind as we door-knock for Harris. LMC never gave up insisting that her country live up to its ideals, and neither should we.

Had so much fun choosing *some* of my favorite books on Women who Asked Why for the fantastic book recommendation website Shepherd, where authors recommend books on a theme. Take a look! @ProfKori @CCooperJones Wolfram Eilenberger Shepherd.com 📚 shepherd.com/best-books/wom…

Loved editing this special issue of the Revue on Hegel's Aesthetics w 🔥 chapters on literature, architecture, gardens, comedy & selfhood by Georg Bertram, Francesco Campana, Luca Illetterati, Eliza Little, David Ciavatta, Shannon Hoff, Stephen Houlgate Eliza Starbuck Little francesco campana

Thank you for showing us how philosophy can help parse this moment. I am about to teach Nietzsche and think he might be jealous that someone also called Harris the Antichrist...

Here is your annual reminder that the author of "Over the River and Through the Wood" was Lydia Maria Child, a radical abolitionist who dedicated her life to fighting for American ideals. I wrote a bio of her after the 2016 election; her example is even more relevant now!

If you are in Cambridge MA 12/6, join us for Harvard's European Philosophy Workshop! My talk: "A New Ethic: Helene Stöcker on Nietzsche, Women, and War." That's right: Nietzsche, women and war: oh my! #philosophy #womenshistory #feminism #pacifism projects.iq.harvard.edu/epw2015/program

Deeply admired this "portrait" of #Emerson by James Marcus: blends his life and thought powerfully in beautiful prose worthy of the greater writer Emerson was. Although, on behalf of Lydias everywhere, I still object to RWE's renaming his wife Lidian. #philosophy #ushistory #19c

So proud that my beloved husband's new book is out. PARIS CONCEALED, by James H. Johnson, traces the history of identity through ways in which people have concealed it--through masks, imposture, fraud, disguise, etc. I'm biased, but it's brilliant! #Frhistory #18C #Paris #history

Happy Birthday Lydia Maria Child! This Freedmen's Book was her effort to help teach formerly enslaved people to read--one of her many attempts to combine idealism and pragmatism in the service of racial justice.

Happy Birthday to Lydia Maria Child, a fierce abolitionist who never stopped believing in her country's ideals and in her responsibility to fight for them. She was witty and wise; uncompromising but generous; realistic but hopeful. Truly a great American. Happy birthday, LMC!