Maria Balaska

Philosopher. Research Fellow at @UHPhilosophy and at @AboAkademi Author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit, and Anxiety&Wonder: on Being Human.

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

It is out! 🎉
My 2nd book on Anxiety & Wonder, their strange intentionality, how they link to each other, what they reveal about who we are &why they point to some serious inadequacies in the mental health discourse. At a reasonable £18 by @BloomsburyBooks https://t.co/zkl8WhDGRK

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

The Minds We Want
A Theory of Mental Health

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Very much looking forward to reading this! A philosophical and careful answer to the difficult questions of mental health. By @John_T_Maier

https://t.co/ofM1q6Lz0a

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

For my Greek-speaking followers, here is a wonderful interview of @newsphilosophy for @athensvoice. A discussion on philosophy’s vital role for understanding public affairs, including Trump, AI, Russia, the future of liberalism, and so much more!

https://t.co/kgXigga88o

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Join me at the world's largest ideas and music festival in London this September 19th-20th! I'll be appearing alongside @MazzucatoM, @skdh, @NicolaSturgeon, @jimmy_wales, @bryan_johnson, @Jeremy_Hunt and many others! To book https://t.co/qNditmbJgi

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

@darrenhabermft Congratulations!!

[Darren Haber @darrenhabermft]

Hot off the press! My new book on language and our compulsive use of it, in the anxious/passionate quest for understanding. Often a patient's "defense" is an alienation from any practice of expressing affect--an unfamiliar if not dangerous move. Meantime the analyst searches for what lies "behind" the defense, and finds...the concept of "behind" is an empty one. Hope you find it interesting! https://t.co/wt5Am8Rrjo

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Very much looking forward to this! Link to register below 👇🏻

[Bloomsbury Philosophy @BloomsburyPhilo]

Join the @BritishWittSoc for a discussion of 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' with editors Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt, joined by @BalaskaMaria and @csandis.

🗓️ 2 September
⏰ 6pm-8pm GMT
💻 Online (Zoom)

Register here: https://t.co/IKCucspwBl

[Bloomsbury Philosophy @BloomsburyPhilo]

Join the @BritishWittSoc for a discussion of 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' with editors Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt, joined by @BalaskaMaria and @csandis.

🗓️ 2 September
⏰ 6pm-8pm GMT
💻 Online (Zoom)

Register here: https://t.co/IKCucspwBl

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Excited to be back in Hay-on-Wye! I will spend the weekend speaking and debating in this beautiful setting ☀️, come and say hello if you are around! @HTLGIFestival

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

This is particularly sad for me as the philosophy department has been a home for my teaching and research. It reflects the general state of the Humanities in the UK. Please sign this petition to save the Humanities at the Uni of Hertfordshire https://t.co/Cgf5BA5ZT8 via @UKChange

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

This gem on Heidegger’s Being-in-the-World is out and it is free to download until the end of the month! https://t.co/uvoXADis1D

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

@darrenhabermft Thanks for sharing!

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

@darrenhabermft Just finished reading it. I enjoyed it very much. Things start happening when words fail us but also when we stumble on the right words (“when is someone gonna know?”)! Thanks for sharing.

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Fun and exciting things can happen when a philosopher becomes a mother!
For @TIME I wrote an article on toddlers and why parents should not refrain from judging bad behavior. Children participate in moral life as much as they participate in speaking.👶🏻✨

https://t.co/6RvTauGuqz

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

"Heidegger, the rules of logic, and the fly bottle of the hard-nosed analytic philosopher", here is a link to my most recent paper!

https://t.co/3djynkl6h4

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

“I have a mill, so I grind corn; don’t ask me what I grind corn for”!
What vision of the human being drives psychoanalysis?
This is what I discuss in my review of D. M. Black’s collection of essays, Psychoanalysis&Ethics. Out now in @JournalPHP 👇🏻

https://t.co/9FTgBI888O

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Why realism will not get you very far when you are trying to understand how science works! Chang has produced some great work on the topic and I look forward to hearing his talk tomorrow, at @TheCrick Follow the link to join 👇🏻! #BeingHuman
https://t.co/oycPZB99Vl

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

Very rewarding to see that my first book continues to inspire reading and thinking! Here is my conversation with psychoanalyst @darrenhabermft
We discussed limits of expression, wonder, Lacan, why making sense of things makes us happier&what Wittgenstein makes of psychoanalysis!

[Darren Haber @darrenhabermft]

Very pleased to be posting this conversation with philosopher Maria Balaska, on Wittgenstein, Lacan, psychoanalysis, the limits of the sayable, and the need to creatively involve ourselves with language. A real treat, hope you enjoy it.
https://t.co/VQhDCrM2Rh

[Darren Haber @darrenhabermft]

Very pleased to be posting this conversation with philosopher Maria Balaska, on Wittgenstein, Lacan, psychoanalysis, the limits of the sayable, and the need to creatively involve ourselves with language. A real treat, hope you enjoy it.
https://t.co/VQhDCrM2Rh

[Maria Balaska @BalaskaMaria]

The first International Philosophy Festival took place in gorgeous Cascais, Portugal. On the very timely topic of Fear.
I had the pleasure and honor of speaking there, and I truly hope it is the start of a new tradition! 🇵🇹💡✨❤️