Building up the anticipation with a photo of the first copy of the hard back, received today.
Book launch for City of Equals UCL IAS 17th October 5.00pm Avner (on Zoom) and I will be in conversation with Dr Marta Wojciechowski (Department of Political Economy, King’s College) and Professor Peg Rawes (Architecture and Philosophy, The Bartlett, UCL) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l...
Join us for the launch of 'City of Equals' by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit
Very nice obituary in The Guardian of my teacher and friend Bob Stern, written by another one of his students Josh Forstenzer. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation
Earlier this year I decided to add a week on Hegel for my 2nd year history of pol phil course. As we edge closer to term, I’m now regretting that decision. If you had 50 mins to teach Hegel (!), what would you include? And what readings would you set?
Honoured to be featured, alongside Volodymyr Yermolenko, Timothy Synder, Margaret Attwood, Jeff McMahan, Aaron James Wendland, Irina Zherebkina et al in this new special issue ed. Aaron Wendland. My piece is Nationalisms: Purification, Privilege, Pride, and Protection ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sp...
Studia Philosophica Estonica is an philosophy journal published by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tartu
Here's something I originally wrote for a conference on the anniversary of Jerry Cohen's KMTH. @jowolff.bsky.social was there. Basically, Cohen's late reconciliation to the market in WNS is in tension with his argument in KMTH that the ills of capitalism are down to the logic of market competition.
(Originally drafted for a conference at Frankfurt in 2018 to mark the 40th anniversary of Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence. I’ve done a bit of editing of my conference script and adde…
On Joseph Heath's account of the trajectory of analytical Marxism (me, at Crooked Timber). @jowolff.bsky.social@jkandiyali.bsky.social@jacobtlevy.bsky.social@nescio13.bsky.social
There has been much attention online to a piece by Joseph Heath arguing that analytical Marxism disappeared because the analytical Marxists all turned into Rawlsian liberals. At a certain level of …
Took some patience, but my co-edited volume 'Debating a Post-work Future' is now available! Begins with a terrific roundtable conversation among four post-work sympathizers: Helen Hester, Kathi Weeks, John Danaher, and myself www.routledge.com/Debating-a-P...
The book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of philosophical, social-scientific, and humanistic arguments about the design and desirability of “post-work” society. Its purpose is to clarify ...
Wonderful festschrift for my teacher and friend Bob Stern yesterday, which included 29(!) papers by his friends and students, and concluded with some excellent Bob Dylan covers x.com/drangiehobbs...