Daniel Badenhorst
@DanielBadenhor5
Intellectual History & 18th Century German Thought Rival Enlightenments & Conceptions of the State @marxologist's other half
It's exhilarating to see de Beauvoir's existentialism getting taken seriously again. Since reading Ethics of Ambiguity in my undergraduate years, I have been convinced of its centrality for navigating the complexities of political and personal life, despite fashionable criticisms
thrilled to run an excerpt from Free Gifts in the new @NewLeftReview asking what freedom might mean if we stop treating nature as a free gift
FAWWWWWWWWKKKKKK. Lmao can I cite woods in a paper? he’s much better than most writing on Fanon.
James D. White's M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography (Brill @histmat) will be out in July! On how Soviet historians interpreted modern Russian history with close attention to the career of Pokrovskii (1868–1932), the Deputy People’s Commissar for Education.
Out today. Feel free to recommend it to your librarian cambridge.org/core/books/kar…
I’ve organized a conference at with Chong Fuk Lau and Plato Tse! Don’t miss it! Coming up at CUHK!
Check out our newest episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia on US Labor Unions, Anticommunism and the Global Cold War (link below) with labor historian @JeffSchuhrke !
We interview the author of Blue Collar Empire how American union leaders were deeply involved in overthrowing communists and undermining the working class abroad. But the key takeaway? They first perfected purging communists and "radicals" from unions in the U.S.—then exported…