Michael Lazarus
@michaellazarus.bsky.social
Working on ethics and the critique of political economy. DUPRF
@Deakin_ADI | Visiting PD Fellow @yale | Book https://sup.org/books/absolute-ethical-life
https://www.michaellazarus.net/
@Deakin_ADI | Visiting PD Fellow @yale | Book https://sup.org/books/absolute-ethical-life
https://www.michaellazarus.net/
Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Podcast on my book:
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October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Podcast on my book:
newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...
newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...
Two Melbourne events this week on Absolute Ethical Life:
Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers.
19 Aug 7:30pm
Sunday with Mathew Abbott.
24 Aug 5:00pm
Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers.
19 Aug 7:30pm
Sunday with Mathew Abbott.
24 Aug 5:00pm
August 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Two Melbourne events this week on Absolute Ethical Life:
Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers.
19 Aug 7:30pm
Sunday with Mathew Abbott.
24 Aug 5:00pm
Tomorrow with Miguel Vatter and Lucy Myers.
19 Aug 7:30pm
Sunday with Mathew Abbott.
24 Aug 5:00pm
SYDNEY launch of Absolute Ethical Life, with Jean-Philippe Deranty! 12 August at Gleebooks.
July 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
SYDNEY launch of Absolute Ethical Life, with Jean-Philippe Deranty! 12 August at Gleebooks.
Brisbane talk!
Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy.
6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23
Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy.
6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23
July 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Brisbane talk!
Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy.
6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23
Speaking Tuesday August 5th at Griffith University on Marx's Capital and Ethics for Queensland School of Continental Philosophy.
6.30pm, Graduate centre Southbank S07_1.23
Melbourne launch! At my favourite bar, with my favourite bookshop. Register here: events.humanitix.com/absolute-eth...
July 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Melbourne launch! At my favourite bar, with my favourite bookshop. Register here: events.humanitix.com/absolute-eth...
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx is out today! Available from SUP with 20% off (code: LAZARUS20), the usual places or ask your library to order it. Discussing the book tonight, Unnameable Books NY, 7pm.
June 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx is out today! Available from SUP with 20% off (code: LAZARUS20), the usual places or ask your library to order it. Discussing the book tonight, Unnameable Books NY, 7pm.
Tomorrow at Unnameable Books!
June 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tomorrow at Unnameable Books!
"'Men make their own history, but,' this phrase echoes through the Marxist classics. The political aim of Marxists is to liquidate that 'but'. Their theoretical aim is to understand it. /1
May 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"'Men make their own history, but,' this phrase echoes through the Marxist classics. The political aim of Marxists is to liquidate that 'but'. Their theoretical aim is to understand it. /1
I'm discussing Absolute Ethical Life on 03 June -- the offical release date -- with Emma Fajgenbaum at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.
May 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm discussing Absolute Ethical Life on 03 June -- the offical release date -- with Emma Fajgenbaum at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.
"ever since the days when I was privileged to be a contributor to that most remarkable journal The New Reasoner, I had been preoccupied with the question of the basis for the moral rejection of Stalinism." MacIntyre in After Virtue
May 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"ever since the days when I was privileged to be a contributor to that most remarkable journal The New Reasoner, I had been preoccupied with the question of the basis for the moral rejection of Stalinism." MacIntyre in After Virtue
The project that eventually became Absolute Ethical Life was initially going to be an assessment of Alasdair MacIntyre's relationship to Marx's thought. In the book, there's a dedicated chapter to MacIntyre but throughout he's always very close to the concerns at hand:
May 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The project that eventually became Absolute Ethical Life was initially going to be an assessment of Alasdair MacIntyre's relationship to Marx's thought. In the book, there's a dedicated chapter to MacIntyre but throughout he's always very close to the concerns at hand:
Alastair MacIntyre taught us what modern moral philosophy could be. He will be missed.
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Alastair MacIntyre taught us what modern moral philosophy could be. He will be missed.
Book Launch for Absolute Ethical Life, next week at 192books in NYC, with Martin Hägglund and Jay Bernstein
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Book Launch for Absolute Ethical Life, next week at 192books in NYC, with Martin Hägglund and Jay Bernstein
