Steve D’Arcy
@stevedarcy.bsky.social
Antifascism, philosophy.
Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
But there was a very dark side to Frege’s thought, too. In our own time, as fascism attempts a resurgence, we should not overlook Frege’s disastrous decision to embrace the fascist far right, just when Germany most needed its intellectuals to join the fight against it.
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Frege’s Ambiguous Legacy (guest post) - Daily Nous
"We ought to ask ourselves, how did Frege’s claim to expertise in the matter of thinking fare, at that crucial moment when Germany most needed its intellectuals to rise to the defense of the endangere...
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July 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
But there was a very dark side to Frege’s thought, too. In our own time, as fascism attempts a resurgence, we should not overlook Frege’s disastrous decision to embrace the fascist far right, just when Germany most needed its intellectuals to join the fight against it.
dailynous.com/2024/08/15/f...
dailynous.com/2024/08/15/f...
Capitulations only embolden them to demand more. They revel in the weak-kneed groveling and self-humiliation of their adversaries. Every concession Columbia makes will lead to 2, 3, many more demands for further self-abasement and bootlicking. And every time, the attempt to curry favor will fail.
March 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Capitulations only embolden them to demand more. They revel in the weak-kneed groveling and self-humiliation of their adversaries. Every concession Columbia makes will lead to 2, 3, many more demands for further self-abasement and bootlicking. And every time, the attempt to curry favor will fail.
The mistake is that there was a free speech crisis at the time, but the letter completely ignored it. publicautonomy.org/2020/07/09/f...
Dead Letter: Rescuing Free Speech from the Liberals who Claim to be Defending It
For the past six weeks, the USA has been mired in the grip of a profound crisis of free speech. In response to a sharp rise in public expressions of dissent and attempts by ordinary working-class p…
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February 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The mistake is that there was a free speech crisis at the time, but the letter completely ignored it. publicautonomy.org/2020/07/09/f...
I wouldn‘t assume that they‘re not occupation soldiers or cops.
February 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I wouldn‘t assume that they‘re not occupation soldiers or cops.
Hegel: “the diversity of philosophical systems [is] the progressive unfolding of truth…. The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the
blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter…. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity….” (Phen. #2).
blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter…. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity….” (Phen. #2).
January 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hegel: “the diversity of philosophical systems [is] the progressive unfolding of truth…. The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the
blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter…. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity….” (Phen. #2).
blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter…. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity….” (Phen. #2).