Ethan Linehan

Education and research in philosophy and history. Interested in projects for freedom.

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

This piece is as maddening and fantastic as everyone says (no surprise, @Tyler_A_Harper has a gift for storytelling), but the best part might be this sense-making bit at the end; the hollowing of journalism and the arts flows at least in part from this same dynamic

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Reviewer #1, basically: "This is great scholarship and a real pleasure to read. Here are some minor changes."

Reviewer #2, basically: "Does the author know how to tie their own shoes? I'd only use this document as toilet paper."

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I'm posting this late, but here's (part of) the conversation I had with Doug Lain last month for @SublationMedia on how the Left can reimagine an emancipatory politics of abortion in a post-Roe world.

https://t.co/dIfqwzbSkb

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I got the same kind of amazing response from her when I was applying to grad school. She saved me a lot of time and money.

[Deconstructed Cachapa @AntiClimaco]

Shoutout to Kathleen Higgins, I emailed her when I was applying to grad school and she was like "You sound great but there's nothing at UT Austin for you anymore"

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

@rosswolfe I've translated into English (but am still seeking a publisher) the majority of Schmidt's essays from the late 1960s-early 70s. It's clear he was the better student of Horkheimer and Adorno and would have preserved the memory of Critical Theory better.

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Trying for a job in academia today feels like you're the third goat in line for the ark, and it's starting to rain.

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

If you start reading Zeno's Paradox at 11:59:59 pm on New Years Eve, you'll never make it to midnight.

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am, of course, wholly unqualified to write film criticism, yet I found myself, quite against my usual inclinations, compelled to set down a few thoughts on Chevalier (2022), a wonderful but neglected film. Out with @caesuramag now.

https://t.co/HjVlv4DB5c

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

https://t.co/Uz55TFumy3

Our introduction

https://t.co/BsfFtP87dr

Held's essay

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I'm pleased to bring to an English readership Walter Held's 1939 essay "Critical theory without political practice? An evaluation of the Journal for Social Research", translated & introduced with my colleague Lukas Hedderich & submitted to the Platypus Review @platypus1917

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am very pleased to announce my newest article!

Ethan Linehan, “After the Death of Art for Hegel and Nietzsche,” Epoché 29, no. 2 (Spring 2025): accepted, page numbers forthcoming.

Please write to me if you don’t have institutional access to the PDF

https://t.co/72by2HN893

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am very pleased to announce my newest article!

"Social democracy then and now: problems for Piketty’s egalitarianism" (2025), Critique, issue 2-3, pages 333-344.

Please write to me if you want to read but don’t have institutional access.

https://t.co/oR4ifmoiO5

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Please write to me if you want to read but don’t have institutional access.

https://t.co/0LZIv0O0GY

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am very pleased to announce my newest article!

Ethan Linehan, “Reproductive Pragmatism: Toward Moral Pluralism in the Politics of Abortion,” Contemporary Pragmatism (2025), issue & pages forthcoming.

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am very pleased to announce my newest article!

"Social democracy then and now: problems for Piketty’s egalitarianism" (2025), Critique, issue 2-3, pages 333-344.

Please write to me if you want to read but don’t have institutional access.

https://t.co/oR4ifmoiO5

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Please write to me if you want to read but don’t have institutional access.

https://t.co/0LZIv0O0GY

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

I am very pleased to announce my newest article!

Ethan Linehan, “Reproductive Pragmatism: Toward Moral Pluralism in the Politics of Abortion,” Contemporary Pragmatism (2025), issue & pages forthcoming.

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Leibniz's Best of All Possible Teams

Fichte's Vocation of Man(ning)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Wilson's Moon Balls

Derrick Henri Bergson

Justin Herbert Marcuse

Mike Tomlinlogical Positivism

Intentional Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Give me your best philosophy-themed fantasy football names. Go!

Some of my favorites are in the replies...

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

Thales' Olive Press Technique

Everyday I'm Husserlin'

Hölderin on the Offense

CJ Stroud of Turin

Kyler Murray Rothbard

Dak Prescottsman Fallacy

Pascal's Fantasy Wager

3rd and Ten(ure)

[Ethan Linehan @ethan_linehan]

When Guizot heard that the St. Simonian follower Napoleon III had done his coup of 1851, Guizot's first words were, "It is the triumph of socialism."

[Antinomy 🚩📚👻🎃 @Gattungswesen25]

What the actual fuck, lmao!!!! This is crazy. I knew Napoleon III tried to present himself as pro-worker, I didn't know he was seen as a socialistic reformer who wanted to give every worker private property and turn his agricultural colony into the prototype of the Kibbutz.