Digressionsimpressions
@nescio13.bsky.social
Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack:
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
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You may enjoy this book (which I had a hand in editing and seeing through the press)
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You may enjoy this book (which I had a hand in editing and seeing through the press)
Before I blog on his Machiavellian leadership book, I decided to read his Schmitt monograph first.
#prividenceismysterious
#prividenceismysterious
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Before I blog on his Machiavellian leadership book, I decided to read his Schmitt monograph first.
#prividenceismysterious
#prividenceismysterious
Back in the mothership
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Back in the mothership
Since ome young bloggers have rediscovered how to generate attention from the analytic-continental divide, there is a whole new discussion of clarity in philosophical writing. I know it's naive (and am fully implicated in all the sins of philo-blogging), but historians can offer illumination:
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November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Since ome young bloggers have rediscovered how to generate attention from the analytic-continental divide, there is a whole new discussion of clarity in philosophical writing. I know it's naive (and am fully implicated in all the sins of philo-blogging), but historians can offer illumination:
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The revolution takes a surprising turn
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The revolution takes a surprising turn
The old hedgehog not smiling
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The old hedgehog not smiling
I love the epigraph from isaiah 4.9 on Browne's Procedure. Ht David bartha
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I love the epigraph from isaiah 4.9 on Browne's Procedure. Ht David bartha
The Montesquieu essay was very neat. Basically argues that if you treat Montesquieu as a mercantilist the whole book falls into place.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Montesquieu essay was very neat. Basically argues that if you treat Montesquieu as a mercantilist the whole book falls into place.
This is really a very lucid and sophisticated (short) book that with relatively limited data reaches fascinating diagnoses. Because it pisses on everyone's favorite explanations it never had much popular uptake. But worth thinking about.
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is really a very lucid and sophisticated (short) book that with relatively limited data reaches fascinating diagnoses. Because it pisses on everyone's favorite explanations it never had much popular uptake. But worth thinking about.
I am visiting Houston later this week
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I am visiting Houston later this week
Last page of Lippman's The Public Philosophy. (There are more references to mandate of heaven and confucius in it.) It's neat idea, that ideas/ideology can also have a mandate of heaven.
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Last page of Lippman's The Public Philosophy. (There are more references to mandate of heaven and confucius in it.) It's neat idea, that ideas/ideology can also have a mandate of heaven.
Late Lippmann is surprisingly Woke
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Late Lippmann is surprisingly Woke
