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Prof @Concordia / Author of Rationalist Empiricism; The Limits of Fabrication; Baudelaire's Shadow / Translator of The Flowers of Evil @VersoBooks

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Something exciting is happening and I'm all for it. @mcmansionhell @saintsoftness @redwithoutwhy
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Grateful for this thoughtful review by Greg Ellermann of my book Reading Hegel in the latest issue of Genre @UChicagoPress read.dukeupress.edu/genre/ar…
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was toying with the idea of translating the rest of Hölderlin's still-untranslated letters one day, but glad to see someone else did this and it's coming out later this year sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Co…
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"I came to grasp the tenderness and generosity of these poems in a way I hadn't before, the kindness traversing them and the openness to experience they require." @ronjaunee speaks with Nathan Brown about his translation of Baudelaire's "Flowers Of Evil." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Nathan Brown's superb new translation of "The Flowers of Evil" (as well as its companion, "Baudelaire's Shadow") is a major event, so come out to celebrate April 11 at the Francis Kite Club in NYC. Nathan is reading, I'll play solo, and Lara Allen DJs: franciskiteclub.com/calendar…
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On this day, 50 years ago, Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975) was released in Italy.
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wrote about Baudelaire's dark Satanic swill for @BookPostUSA @VersoBooks books.substack.com/p/review-…
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Baudelaire has an entrancing morbidity and syntactical elegance that makes fluid translation difficult. In our latest post, @alienvsrobbins reviews a new translation of Baudelaire guided by “sense and syntax.” Read here: books.substack.com/p/review-… @versobooks
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Following Baudelaire through 19th-century Paris, Matthew Beaumont discovers a parallel archetype to the flaneur — the convalescent hero of modernity — who emerges from the sickbed into city streets with a feverish curiosity: buff.ly/3dOO9AF
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First poetry of 2025, courtesy of @redwithoutwhy 🙏
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Happy birthday Maestro Benedetti Michelangeli!
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A month today @WmCollinsBooks will publish THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS, the book that has consumed my waking and sleeping moments for the last three years but which has been germinating for a decade and a half. 1/
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This new edition of Baudelaire's infamous work adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.

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Kirill Chepurin’s *Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity* is almost out. If this isn’t your most anticipated philosophy book of the year, it should be. A work of genius that radically cuts to the very core of thought, and then cuts it up
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Coming soon
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Replying to @aufgehenderRest
@aufgehenderRest has created a phenomenal episode yet again, this time on F. Schlegel & Novalis✨Dr. Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy was a joy to listen to, and I’ll definitely be anticipating his forthcoming work on Jena Romanticism.
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Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum) I love its expression.
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Friends: October is going to be a busy month for #TheYoungIdealist Series on Classical German Philosophy. On October 16th, I will be recording a special episode with Dr. Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy (Concordia) to speak on F. Schlegel, Novalis, & the Athenaeum Project. Stay Tuned
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Fragmentary Forms by @Freya_Gowrley is a beautifully illustrated global history of #collage from the origins of paper to today. Presenting an expansive approach to collage and the history of #art, this book is out 29 Oct. UK / 12 Nov. US. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02LCpxn0
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