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Adam Knowles
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Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Ideas at the University of Zurich. Working on fascism, ethnonationalism, 20th-century political thought / Here in a privative capacity.
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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · Nov 4
My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
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Wir (@hist-theorie.bsky.social) freuen uns auf die Zusammenarbeit und sind gespannt auf die gekreuzte Perspektiven!
theorieblog.bsky.social Theorieblog @theorieblog.bsky.social · 13d
Mit den Blogs Geschichtstheorie am Werk und dem theorieblog.de  haben sich zwei Plattformen etabliert, die sich für eine breite Öffentlichkeit den theoretischen Grundfragen ihrer Fachdisziplinen (Geschichtswissenschaften und Politikwissenschaften) widmen.... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30404
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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thediasporist.bsky.social
„Promiskuitiv und aasfressend, zeige der Faschismus eine bemerkenswerte Fähigkeit, Widersprüche in Spannung zu halten, ohne sie auflösen zu müssen.“ Adam Knowles schreibt über Armin Mohler, den „geistigen Vater” der Neuen Rechten: thediasporist.de/de/missverst...
Missverstandene Radikale – the Diasporist
Armin Mohler und die Beschönigung des Faschismus
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January 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Guter Beitrag von @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy über das jüngste Buch von Dagmar Herzog. Auch eine Gelegenheit daran zu erinnern, dass Herzog einen Vortrag an der Uni Zürich am 01.06. hält. Am 02.06. findet ein Workshop mit Herzog über „Eugenische Phantasmen“ statt. Mehr dazu demnächst.
Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies Eugenische Phantasmen - Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-«Euthanasie>>-Mor de 01.06.2026, 18:30- 20:00 (KOL F-101) Dagmar Herzog - City University of New York
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Guter Beitrag von @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy über das jüngste Buch von Dagmar Herzog. Auch eine Gelegenheit daran zu erinnern, dass Herzog einen Vortrag an der Uni Zürich am 01.06. hält. Am 02.06. findet ein Workshop mit Herzog über „Eugenische Phantasmen“ statt. Mehr dazu demnächst.
Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies Eugenische Phantasmen - Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-«Euthanasie>>-Mor de 01.06.2026, 18:30- 20:00 (KOL F-101) Dagmar Herzog - City University of New York
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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dzshaw.bsky.social
There is a lot going on this diagram.
knowlesadam.bsky.social Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 18d
Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.
Taxonomic diagram of intellectual history tracing the lineage of various strands of thinking published in the ethnonationalist journal "Völkische Kultur" in 1934 in Werner Deubel's essay "Graecogermanisch--Graecojudaisch." In the chart the fundamental divide is between a "Greco-Jewish" lineage that leads to the "downfall of the soul" and a "Greco-Germanic" lineage that leads to the "German Cultural Revolution." Plato is placed in a lineage that leads to a "logocentric system" crystalized by Kant and ultimately resulting in Americanism and Bolshevism. The chart places Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Romanticism as the critical nodal points in the movement towards downfall (Kant, Goethe in part) and Cultural Revolution (Goethe, in part, Schiller, and Romantics).
January 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.
Taxonomic diagram of intellectual history tracing the lineage of various strands of thinking published in the ethnonationalist journal "Völkische Kultur" in 1934 in Werner Deubel's essay "Graecogermanisch--Graecojudaisch." In the chart the fundamental divide is between a "Greco-Jewish" lineage that leads to the "downfall of the soul" and a "Greco-Germanic" lineage that leads to the "German Cultural Revolution." Plato is placed in a lineage that leads to a "logocentric system" crystalized by Kant and ultimately resulting in Americanism and Bolshevism. The chart places Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Romanticism as the critical nodal points in the movement towards downfall (Kant, Goethe in part) and Cultural Revolution (Goethe, in part, Schiller, and Romantics).
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
knowlesadam.bsky.social
Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.
Taxonomic diagram of intellectual history tracing the lineage of various strands of thinking published in the ethnonationalist journal "Völkische Kultur" in 1934 in Werner Deubel's essay "Graecogermanisch--Graecojudaisch." In the chart the fundamental divide is between a "Greco-Jewish" lineage that leads to the "downfall of the soul" and a "Greco-Germanic" lineage that leads to the "German Cultural Revolution." Plato is placed in a lineage that leads to a "logocentric system" crystalized by Kant and ultimately resulting in Americanism and Bolshevism. The chart places Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Romanticism as the critical nodal points in the movement towards downfall (Kant, Goethe in part) and Cultural Revolution (Goethe, in part, Schiller, and Romantics).
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Great piece about the mythical victimhood of German Conservatism and how the New Right is currently utilizing the polymorphous history of fascism to obfuscate its agenda:
January 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
www.theideasletter.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Excited to announce upcoming public talks and panel discussions on "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" at the University of Zurich which I have organized in cooperation with @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social. Save the dates! @deborahdwork.bsky.social, @christina-morina.bsky.social
Announcement for lecture series on Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Zurich.
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
knowlesadam.bsky.social
Excited to announce upcoming public talks and panel discussions on "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" at the University of Zurich which I have organized in cooperation with @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social. Save the dates! @deborahdwork.bsky.social, @christina-morina.bsky.social
Announcement for lecture series on Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Zurich.
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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theorieblog.bsky.social
Zum Thema "Philosophie und Antisemitismus" wird vom 10. - 12. März 2026 an der Uni Würzburg eine Tagung stattfinden. Ausgangspunkt sind vielfältige Formen antisemitischer Herabsetzungen und Ausgrenzung jüdischen Denkens in Geschichte und Gegenwart der... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30321
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Philosophie und Antisemitismus - Tagung, 10.-12. März 2026. Selbstreflexion der Philosophie, historische Genealogien & Theoriearbeit. Mit u.a. @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social @knowlesadam.bsky.social
go.uniwue.de/a6hai
Philosophie und Antisemitismus - Institut für Philosophie
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December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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kmunro-econ.bsky.social
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New School has been one of the most important humanities and social science universities in the world for the past 70 years. The humanities are collapsing at all of the pillars, and it won't be long until less prestigious institutions feel validated to call open season upon a number of departments.
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Dec 4
Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Interesting read on Armin Mohler and Die Neue Rechte.
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
www.theideasletter.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
knowlesadam.bsky.social
My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
www.theideasletter.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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This volume of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks contains five short notebooks the philosopher composed during the pivotal years of 1942 to 1948. Readers interested in the development of Heidegger's thinking will find insightful documentation for the emergence of his post-WWII philosophical work.
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Adam Knowles reviews A Social History of Analytic Philosophy in Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social
www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/mark...
Adam Knowles · Marketplace of dull ideas (2025)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM