Fannie Bialek
fanniebialek.bsky.social
Fannie Bialek
@fanniebialek.bsky.social
friend, countryman, religion and politics prof @ washu
I’ve had success teaching Frankfurt’s Reasons of Love (excerpts or the whole thing) and Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic, for two very different options!

My new book (Love in Time, just out from Chicago) has some parts that might make good short excerpts, too. Let me know if I can recommend anything!
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If you’re headed to @aarweb.bsky.social later this month, I would love to see you Sunday at 3pm for a panel on the book! Amy Hollywood, Martin Kavka, and Lou Ruprecht will speak with Andrew Walker-Cornetta presiding and a response from me. I’m honored and grateful to each of the panelists!
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thank you!! I am too lucky with this cover—an original watercolor by the designer!
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Congratulations!!!
March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉
February 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Yay!!!!! Congratulations!! They’re so lucky to have you!!
January 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Thank you!! What virtues it may have are in no small part thanks to you!!
January 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
And I love the Jim Croce comparison! The more bitter version, maybe, is Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” :)
December 9, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Thank you!!
December 9, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I haven’t yet but I’ve been appreciating her work for years! I’ll reach out!
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Thank you!!
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Thank you!!
November 28, 2024 at 7:57 AM
The book argues for a view of love as an experience of uncertainty, and what that demands of us as lovers, thinkers, and speakers of our experience.
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Also considered: vulnerability to our own desires, lovers as bad shoppers, and do we ever fully know our beloveds? (Not really, and why would we want to?)
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
If you’ve ever wondered what love feels like as a finite being, and why philosophers so rarely talk about it that way, this book is for you!
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Thanks for sponsoring it!!
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM