Robert Lucas Scott
@_rob_scott
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Arts Research Fellow @JesusCollegeCam | writing a book on Gillian Rose | Reading Hegel @UChicagoPress, 2025 | ed. Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose @VersoBooks
Joined September 2021
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
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Tonight — I'll be speaking about Rose's deathbed conversion to the Anglican Church. Also featuring @_rob_scott, co-editor of Gillian Rose's lectures on the Frankfurt School, as well as MSCP super-stars, Lillian Phillips and @thewastedworld xo see ya there ✊😎🌹
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Have you considered this paragraph from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit?
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Excited to be speaking at this next week in Melbourne, with @NoLuckLopez @thewastedworld & Lillian Phillips @MSCPhilosophy
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To mark three decades since the untimely passing of British-Jewish philosopher Gillian Rose, the MSCP and Thesis Eleven are hosting a special event on her life, death and philosophical legacy. 6:30pm Fri 14 Nov in Brunswick. Details and registration: https://t.co/cQ3OwETD3o
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A Commemoration of Gillian Rose.
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I'll add a bonus one. A rather niche one. Gillian Rose on Marxist Modernism
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Next Tuesday 4pm I'll be presenting a paper 'Our Cherished Complicities: Gillian Rose on Auschwitz and the Present' at Macquarie University. If any mutuals are in Sydney, come along!
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"The Shoah at once stands in for suffering in general but in its singular place in Western discourse it absorbs, like a black hole, all other representations of suffering, collapsing the universal into the particular..." So good.
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Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest has been read by critics as a reflection of the banality of evil. But, what if it in its materialist insistence on impersonal forces, it is more radical than that,...
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My article “From the invisible hand to the rabble: Smith, Hegel and social ontology” now out with Cambridge Journal of Economics. Open Access: https://t.co/dMKTORsRXt
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GR describes this necessary illusion of “moral” subjects as separate from politics/institutions as arising from “the antinomy of law”
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The passage is right that capital produces people as “persons” but wrong to dismiss the moral/legal/psych component of this. Less in DK, more in the JewishQ & Grundrisse, Marx covers how capital transforms ppl into “moral” subjects, reducing political life to individual interests
I am sorry to say this distinction between big and little personifications undermines what i think is the entire point of the idea for Marx....
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it's genocide (@amnesty) it's genocide (@hrw) it's genocide (@btselem) it's genocide (@MSF) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (@AlHaq) it's genocide (@UNHumanRights) it's genocide (@UN_HRC) it's genoicde (@pchrgaza) it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter) it's genocide (@WarOnWant) it's
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Excited to be speaking at this next week in Melbourne, with @NoLuckLopez @thewastedworld & Lillian Phillips @MSCPhilosophy
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Gillian Rose: “We have given up on communism — only to fall more deeply in love with the idea of ‘the community’.”
i think community is one of the worst articulated concepts out there
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Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
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"Only if we resist the temptation of the ontology of 'originary contamination' can we begin to discern the complicities of our political history." ('Of Derrida's Spirit', Gillian Rose)
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Looking forward to presenting at this event in Melbourne marking the 30th anniversary of Gillian Rose’s death. I’ll be giving a talk on Rose’s death, her philosophy of death, and the relation between the two.
To mark three decades since the untimely passing of British-Jewish philosopher Gillian Rose, the MSCP and Thesis Eleven are hosting a special event on her life, death and philosophical legacy. 6:30pm Fri 14 Nov in Brunswick. Details and registration: https://t.co/cQ3OwETD3o
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