Robert Lucas Scott
@_rob_scott
Arts Research Fellow @JesusCollegeCam | writing a book on Gillian Rose | Reading Hegel @UChicagoPress, 2025 | ed. Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose @VersoBooks
Publication day for my first book, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique ! It's written I hope in a lively,at times polemical style––not only for Hegel scholars but for anyone interested in what's at stake in our reading of philosophy, theory, and criticism @UChicagoPress
i havent read much gillian rose but her lectures on the frankfurt school got transcripted and i thought those were 1) highly clear and accessible and 2) pretty alright. not sure how much it would help getting into her
Benjamin was the most subtle metaphysician of the 20th century. These passages must be read in light of the end of Trauerspiel; namely, in light of the resurrection.
Gillian Rose: "I know of no passage which deals so profoundly with the violent implications of the nothingness of death." 4/4
Do you think Klee’s mom was ever like “omg would it kill you to paint a nice, normal angel that I could show to my friends”
"Paul Klee's Angélus Dubiosus provides an image and name for reason, full of surprises ... hybrid of hubris and humility––who makes mistakes, for whom things go wrong, who constantly discovers its own faults and failings, yet who still persists in the pain of staking itself..."/1
“reflecting on my moral intuitions about extreme hypothetical situations” is not the same as “doing philosophy”
"Every day I watch patients deteriorate and die, not from their injuries, but because they are too malnourished to survive surgery. The surgical repairs that we carry out fall to pieces, patients get terrible infections, then they die." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Have you tried not selling them weapons?
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
"I stand on my record and it is a good record," Lammy tells the BBC this morning when pressed on whether he's done enough to prevent war crimes in Gaza. An astonishing statement from a man who has enabled a genocide for more than a year
"Admirers called Alexandre Kojève “The Professor.” Others took a dimmer view: “the snake in the grass.” Both perspectives had merit.": bookforum.com/print/3201/heg…
Jon Fosse emerged from the Bergensian literary-philosophical milieu around the university where I teach. So I’m not impartial. But everyone should read him! He studied Heidegger and Wittgenstein, translated Adorno and Kafka, and (like the best Norwegian poets – Wergeland, Ibsen,…
Two of the most moving modern novels I know: Jon Fosse is extraordinary, a prose poet of loneliness and solitude. His language has a primal, musical quality — both frightening and reassuring. Wonderful works to take slowly, becoming immersed, lost, transfixed.
reminds me of something i can't quite point out 🤭