Philosopher. Research Fellow at @UHPhilosophy and at @AboAkademi Author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit, and Anxiety&Wonder: on Being Human.
London, UK
Joined May 2020
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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! routledge.com/Dissociation-C…
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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: bit.ly/4wktkDq
ALT Banner for the book 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' featuring letters between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards. It's edited by Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt
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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.
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2. @GlosPhilSoc are hosting an in-person public lecture by the wonderful @BalaskaMaria on "Forms of Nature: Real and Manmade".
In-person: 7-8pm.
Details: glosphilsoc.net/
#PhilosophyMatters #BPG2025 #PhilosFortnight2025 #gloucester #nature #animals
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British Philosophy Fortnight is soon - last two weeks of March!
It's our new annual initiative to celebrate, promote and champion philosophy!
For details, events, downloadable content, check out:
bpa.ac.uk/activities/philoso…
#philosophy #philosophers #PhilosophyMatters #BPF2025
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Thanks @BalaskaMaria for speaking to me about Anxiety and wonder: On being human. @BloomsburyPhilo Our conversation is here:
philosophypodcasts.org/balas… So much depends on these two: anxiety (sure) and wonder (let's not forget). @BloomsburyPub @BloomsburyBooks Prof. Balaska writes about it so carefully and well.
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New episode available now! I speak with Maria Balaska (@BalaskaMaria) about her fascinating new book Anxiety and Wonder, recently published by @BloomsburyBooks. Listen now in your favorite podcast player or right here:
buzzsprout.com/1570933/episo…
Maria Balaska retweeted
Learning science has long recognized the virtues of testing. However, most studies have focused on the benefits of tests taken after studying. Explore the advantages of testing before learning in my recent piece for Psyche Magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/the-secret-s…
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On the evening of the US election I spoke to Miguel de Beistegui on the philosophy of crisis for @philosopher1923. Besides getting to the grips with the meaning of "crisis", we discuss how Trump is a manifestation of the contradictions of US society today. youtube.com/watch?v=cLiV4CxT…
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"Recalling Aristotle’s dictum that philosophy begins in wonder, [Balaska] argues that wonder and anxiety are akin, neither being wholly positive or wholly negative. Anxiety can be uplifting, wonder frightening."
@TheTLS reviews Anxiety and Wonder: bit.ly/3YR28iE
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Does boredom make us human? Read @BalaskaMaria, author of Anxiety and Wonder, over at @TIME.
📙: bit.ly/3QQv45H
time.com/6975668/boredom-anx…
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Can we have any virtues without the concepts of good and evil? @BalaskaMaria explains why goodness is a bedrock value.
Watch the full debate on the distinction between good and evil, also featuring Richard Wrangham, Slavoj Žižek, and Rowan Williams: iai.tv/video/the-end-of-good…
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We're pleased to announce our new YouTube series: Madness & Mental Health: London Lecture Series 2023-4.
The fifth lecture, Who Gets to Call Whom Mad? And With What Right?, by Richard Gipps @DrGipps, is now online.
Watch via the link below
buff.ly/3QKOZmq
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Happy 211th birthday, #Kierkegaard! If you're reading this with your shoulders tensed up to your ears, things might not be so bad: for Kierkegaard, anxiety was a door to freedom.
Find out why in @BalaskaMaria's Anxiety and Wonder, out now: bit.ly/43qLIOa
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"Moments of anxiety call on us to make sense of our life, by responding to the fact that there is a world for us in the first place.'
@BalaskaMaria on Heidegger, Kierkegaard & the power of anxiety:iai.tv/articles/anxiety-and-…
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“While anti-natalism is thus relentlessly pessimistic about ‘life,’ it is eerily silent about the profit system responsible for specific kinds of life-making.” @benjamin_ware on the problems with anti-natalism and the emptiness of opting out.
lithub.com/the-sickness-of-l…
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The University of Kent is closing its philosophy department among others. This was a thriving department who did great in the REF and the NSS. The government are not helping universities to thrive and are not helping the humanities. kent.ac.uk/news/statements/3…
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Do we need the concepts of good and evil to make sense of life and morality?
In a debate exploring whether humans are essentially good or selfish and violent, Richard Wrangham and @BalaskaMaria delve into the uses and abuses of the concept of evil: iai.tv/video/the-end-of-good…