David Bather Woods
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associate professor @PhilosWarwick • friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian • part time Proustian • writing a book for @UChicagoPress • repped by @Kat_Aitken
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Apropos of nothing, Schopenhauer’s most savage quote on Hegel:
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It’s Kant, Lenin, Nabokov, and Oppenheimer’s birthday today. Who’s party are you going to?
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Is it too much of an exaggeration to say that this is the greatest travesty of Nietzsche’s legacy?
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My wife said today’s Wordle is ridiculous. I said that’s too many letters 🤪
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Is this the greatest book on Nietzsche ever written? Probably.
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These are clearly the lyrics to a Smiths song
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In honour of Kant’s 300th birthday, Schopenhauer’s fanboy poem
If this gets 1K likes, I will share some of Schopenhauer’s actual poetry
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Perhaps one of the greatest unresolved mysteries in Schopenhauer studies is what happened in the 30 year gap between these two images
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If you want to know ethics, you only need two books
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Editing this was hard work but so worth it. 38 new essays on Schop’ from establish scholars and new voices. There were surprises - not least a pandemic - but the best was that my co-editor started off on the other side of the Atlantic and now he has the office opposite mine.
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Wes Anderson’s next film should be set in Jena in 1796. Bill Murray as Goethe, Adrian Brody as Schiller, the Owen brothers as the Schlegel brothers - it basically casts itself.
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Not a lot of people know about Schopenhauer’s laser vision
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On 23 March 1820, Schopenhauer gave a job talk on causality at Berlin University, during which he and Hegel argued about how to define ‘animal functions’. The zoologist Hinrich Lichtenstein intervened and sided with Schopenhauer. He got the job but never had more than 5 students.
Forget Drake and Kendrick... tell us the best academic beef you've encountered during your research👂
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When writing about Schopenhauer, it’s important to put yourself in situations that help you see the world from his perspective.
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Not content with a duckrabbit, a student of mine proposes this as an analogy for interpretation (‘Squaring the Circle’ by
@Troika_London
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This is basically Nietzsche
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On this day in 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer was rudely expelled from the paradise of non-being.
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We must imagine the squirrel happy.
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Happy Schopenhauer’s birthday to all who celebrate
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Can anyone recommend books/papers in the philosophy of biology?
(Genuinely asking for a friend, a biologist who wants to get into philosophy)
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Today is the birthday of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin and Iris Murdoch. Whose party would you go to?
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Well that’s a first - a kids book based on Schopenhauer!
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New! (Something about the cover image suddenly seemed familiar, then I realised that this picture - ‘The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’ (1824) by Louis Daguerre, of daguerreotype fame - hangs in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. I’ve stood in front of it many a time.)
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Who is or was the nicest person in philosophy? Sincere answers only
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Schopenhauer died on this day, 160 years ago. It was for the best. Well, second best.
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Some of us are classy enough not to have made it known
Jean Paul Sartre was the first person to decline the Nobel Prize.
In 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but made it known that he did not wish to accept the prize as he had always declined official honours.
More on Sartre’s refusal:
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She’s wondering what’s going on in Schopenhauer’s class
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My promotion application has been approved and so from August I’ll be Associate Professor at
@PhilosWarwick
🥳 I owe thanks to lots of colleagues and students, but most of all I’m lucky to have had a succession of supportive heads of department in
@GuyLongworth
and
@annefabpeter
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Goethe on critics: “They seem to harbour the illusion that if a man accomplishes something he is in their debt; that he is always a little behind with delivering what they really wanted—even though they had no idea, before they saw his work, that such a thing was even possible."
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160 students have pre-registered for my new module on philosophy of evil next year - no pressure! 😅
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Did some reviewing for CUP and had a bit of money to spend. Here’s what I got!
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By age 30, Schopenhauer had written The World as Will and Representation.
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So much Proust, so little time (French, English, and English again)
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Preparing to be asked where do neo-Kantians come from
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Happy Schopenhauer’s death day to all who celebrate
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Sure, this is impressive, but has he ever tried to switch to a blended approach to teaching and learning?
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What can we learn about happiness from Schopenhauer, philosophy’s most famous pessimist?
Read my essay for
@aeonmag
to find out 👇
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What did Schopenhauer learn about mental health from visiting asylums and speaking with their residents?
Find out in my new piece for
@psyche_the_mag
@aeonmag
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Today my wife and I have been married for 6 years. They’ve been the happiest of my life!
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Idea for some philosophy sci fi: a man travels back in time to supervise his own phd supervisor
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It’s time I admitted that I like the history of philosophy more than I like philosophy.
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‘Wrong answers only’ isn’t a bad answer answer
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I never noticed Schopenhauer has hope in his name. How ironic.
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My first lesson about academia - First day of first job, I showed up at 9am to report to my head of department, as per my letter from HR. Having no idea about this letter, he wasn’t there. When I emailed him, he said I didn’t need to be there either, unless of course I wanted to.
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Yesterday I briefly met one of our young neighbours for the first time, who was looking for help getting her ball back. Today, this came through our door 🥲
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Lucky me, I’ve been sent this to review. First impression: looks awesome.
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The who/whom distinction is the worst sufferer of what I like to call the paradox of pedantry: to correct someone, you must have understood what they meant
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Clothing sponsors for academics should be a thing. During the working week, we spend hours every day stood in front of dozens of fashion conscious young people. We’re basically unused billboards.
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It has happened again. I went out for a pastry, I came back with a book (and a pastry). It’s not my fault if the bookshop and the bakery are on the same street.
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Writing tip of the day. Listen up, academics!
Avoid using a verb and a noun when a verb alone is better.
provide an analysis = analyse
offer an interpretation = interpret
defend an argument = argue, etc
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The hardest part of philosophy, I find, is having the right thoughts.
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the force that circles the earth the most times in a second is not electricity but pain
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For Hegel’s 250th birthday, I’m going to go through Schopenhauer’s works to see if I can find one nice thing he said about him.
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There is nothing that is not wonderful about books. They’re inexpensive, they last a lifetime, they’re infinitely reusable, infinitely rich, they make you more interesting whenever you read one, whether you think it’s good or not. I know you know this, but I wanted to remind you.
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No regrets
Dialectics check. What's your first tweet when you search for "Hegel" in your page?
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“Fichte is the father of fake philosophy, the dishonest method that tries to fool those who are eager to learn by using ambiguous language and incomprehensible speech along with sophisms and a haughty, imposing tone” (Schopenhauer). Can’t wait!
#FoundInOxfam
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Today I learned that in August 1850, Schopenhauer sat for the same photographer, Hermann Hartmann, who took this iconic picture of Nietzsche in 1875. The technology was less developed back then, and Schopenhauer didn’t like the photograph, so he gave it away to his housekeeper.
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“You’re on mute, Glaucon!”
“........ I said: Assuredly so, Socrates!”
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The workers, the guardians, and the philosopher kings
What are the three branches of government? [Wrong answers only]
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Schopenhauer is only mentioned twice in Proust’s great novel. But not to worry: Hegel is only mentioned once.
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My wife put this on Instagram and not one person questioned it. Six wished me a happy 50th
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I SAID YES 💕💕💕💕💍💍💍🥰🥰🥰 to this life as I now live it and have lived it and will live once again and innumerable times again
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We all know how Kant feels about lying, but where does he stand on surprise parties?
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9/10 for this meme. It’d be better if Schopenhauer was playing the flute.
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Sometimes I wish I could just write ‘To conclude: reread the introduction’
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I really recommend this new book. It gave me a much better understanding of suicide and I feel more prepared to support people who struggle with it.
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