After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...
Jackson Herndon interviews Michael Lazarus about his book "Absolute Ethical Life." They discuss Marx's Aristotelian-Hegelian ethics, Arendt's and MacIntyre's concepts of the ethical, and the enduring significance of "species-being" to Marx.
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With a robust critique of capitalism derived from the determinations of what Marx calls the "form of value," Lazarus argues for an ethical life beyond capital.
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Some pictures from the panel on Absolute Ethical Life at Historicalmaterialism.org with Alyssa Battistoni, Tatiana Llaguno and Patrick Murray. Wonderful to talk about the book with comrades.
and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...
Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Thanks — do let me know what you think!
Cover of book with image of lithograph of jazz musicians (WPA Rhythm Band by Elizabeth Olds)
William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
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NDPR review
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Podcast on my book:
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Two Melbourne events this week on Absolute Ethical Life:
Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers.
19 Aug 7:30pm
Sunday with Mathew Abbott.
24 Aug 5:00pm
Tonight!
now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
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Schedule of INDIGNITY events in September/October @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - save the dates and stay tuned for more in other countries 😊😍🐥!!
SYDNEY launch of Absolute Ethical Life, with Jean-Philippe Deranty! 12 August at Gleebooks.
Brisbane talk!
Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy.
6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23
The 20th of July will mark the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth
In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria
Melbourne launch! At my favourite bar, with my favourite bookshop. Register here: events.humanitix.com/absolute-eth...
Joining @jensensuther.bsky.social for a discussion of the significance of Aristotle and Hegel in Marx's thought and Marxist theory/June 29 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00
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Watch closely to see if you can tell when i am trying to simultaneously read my talk and get a dog treat out from under my desk to quiet a barking dog
Book cover of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx by Michael Lazarus
Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life by @michaellazarus.bsky.social provides resources for understanding how freedom & rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today
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I also enjoyed the Postone inspired points in the article.
I liked it too — I think they mean the continued interest in Postone and perhaps Heinrich’s influence on the new Capital edition. Maybe even the popularity of Mau?
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx is out today! Available from SUP with 20% off (code: LAZARUS20), the usual places or ask your library to order it. Discussing the book tonight, Unnameable Books NY, 7pm.
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
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Tomorrow at Unnameable Books!
"In order to understand it we must first be clear what it is for men to make their own history, for men to act and not just to suffer. So the concept of human action is central to our enquiry." /2
Alasdair MacIntyre, Notes from the Moral Wilderness
"'Men make their own history, but,' this phrase echoes through the Marxist classics. The political aim of Marxists is to liquidate that 'but'. Their theoretical aim is to understand it. /1
I'm discussing Absolute Ethical Life on 03 June -- the offical release date -- with Emma Fajgenbaum at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.
