Wim Weymans
@wimweymans.bsky.social
Political theorist & intellectual historian | Democracy, French theory (esp. Lefort and his circle)| Visiting Lecturer (UCLouvain) & LINES (KU Leuven) affiliate | Former @values4eu.bsky.social |🎵| En | De | Nl | Fr | https://sites.google.com/site/wimweym/
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Wim Weymans
@wimweymans.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
das.ubernerden.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
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PIR’s Dr. Alicia Steinmetz recently published, “Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination.” Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination | Polity: Vol 57, No 3
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
PIR’s Dr. Alicia Steinmetz recently published, “Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination.” Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
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This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This Thrusday, I was able to join Prof. Nicolas Standaert‘s emeritation lecture on “The Art of Turning Muddled” (難得糊塗). From challenges universities are facing over their achievements to his famous 4Vs, it felt like he really brought together insights from his whole career.
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New piece! Stéphane Vibert on the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet, his rejection of teleological history, and “otherness” as a core element of modernity and human sociality. Check it out!
‘One Does Not Escape the Philosophy of History’: The Disenchantment of the World and the Nature of Man
By Stéphane Vibert
post-liberalism.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New piece! Stéphane Vibert on the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet, his rejection of teleological history, and “otherness” as a core element of modernity and human sociality. Check it out!
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ICYMI: Dick Howard, 'Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort' - asks if the concept of totalitarianism still has meaning in today’s world, then turns to Lefort’s attempts to understand totalitarianism over the past 60 years. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort - Dick Howard, 2023
After asking whether the concept of totalitarianism still has a meaning in today’s world, and whether its critique makes political sense, the author turns to th...
journals.sagepub.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
ICYMI: Dick Howard, 'Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort' - asks if the concept of totalitarianism still has meaning in today’s world, then turns to Lefort’s attempts to understand totalitarianism over the past 60 years. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
September 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bart Verheijen: Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen - Joop - BNNVARA
Door groepen uit te sluiten en permanent verdacht te maken hanteren rechtspopulisten een totalitair middel dat de democratie blijvend zal beschadigen.
www.bnnvara.nl
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Bart Verheijen: Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
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"Quentin Skinner has [focused on] the loss of a republican vision of freedom from domination, as opposed to modern & libertarian freedom from interference that prevails today. And yet he's never shown much interest in what freedom is for" - @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Quentin Skinner and the Contested History of Freedom
Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free for what?
www.thenation.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"Quentin Skinner has [focused on] the loss of a republican vision of freedom from domination, as opposed to modern & libertarian freedom from interference that prevails today. And yet he's never shown much interest in what freedom is for" - @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.
Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/confl...
Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/confl...
Conflicting ideas of liberty
The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.
engelsbergideas.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.
Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/confl...
Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/confl...
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For Sidecar, Raymond Geuss remembers Alasdair MacIntyre:
'He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
'He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).
newleftreview.org
June 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For Sidecar, Raymond Geuss remembers Alasdair MacIntyre:
'He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
'He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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“It’s been very serious, but serious fun.” The conductor Sir Roger Norrington has died, aged 91.
bachtrack.com/news-roger-n...
bachtrack.com/news-roger-n...
Obituary: Sir Roger Norrington
The pioneering conductor of the London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has died, aged 91.
bachtrack.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“It’s been very serious, but serious fun.” The conductor Sir Roger Norrington has died, aged 91.
bachtrack.com/news-roger-n...
bachtrack.com/news-roger-n...
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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert's library at 285 rue de Vaugirard - online catalogue soon available
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/07/l...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/07/l...
Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available
La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued much of Foucault and Defert’s personal l…
progressivegeographies.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert's library at 285 rue de Vaugirard - online catalogue soon available
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/07/l...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/07/l...
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The French Socialist Party sinks into the mire: tocqueville21.com/art-goldhamm...
The Socialist Party: No Direction Home, A Complete Unknown
tocqueville21.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The French Socialist Party sinks into the mire: tocqueville21.com/art-goldhamm...
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Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...
Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on ...
www.routledge.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...
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[Event]
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'
June the 5th at 5pm.
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'
June the 5th at 5pm.
May 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
[Event]
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'
June the 5th at 5pm.
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'
June the 5th at 5pm.
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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
June 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
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The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys (NYRB, 2011)
A delight in the finest prose. Legendary Belgian sinologists on emptiness, claptrap from Western Maoists, Chesterton—democrat and thus journalist, Liu Xiaobo, the sea.
I return again and again.
4/🧵
A delight in the finest prose. Legendary Belgian sinologists on emptiness, claptrap from Western Maoists, Chesterton—democrat and thus journalist, Liu Xiaobo, the sea.
I return again and again.
4/🧵
April 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys (NYRB, 2011)
A delight in the finest prose. Legendary Belgian sinologists on emptiness, claptrap from Western Maoists, Chesterton—democrat and thus journalist, Liu Xiaobo, the sea.
I return again and again.
4/🧵
A delight in the finest prose. Legendary Belgian sinologists on emptiness, claptrap from Western Maoists, Chesterton—democrat and thus journalist, Liu Xiaobo, the sea.
I return again and again.
4/🧵
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#SaveTheDate
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque
May 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#SaveTheDate
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque
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‘Whereas Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Skinner argues that representative democracy is the only form of governance that can guarantee liberty as independence: “No democracy, no liberty.”’
Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner and liberty: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner and liberty: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd · Dangerous Chimera: What is liberty?
Whereas Isaiah Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Quentin Skinner argues that...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘Whereas Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Skinner argues that representative democracy is the only form of governance that can guarantee liberty as independence: “No democracy, no liberty.”’
Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner and liberty: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner and liberty: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Michel de Certeau SJ (1925-1986) war einer der originellsten Theolog:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Am 17.5.2025 wäre sein 100. Geburtstag. Margit Eckholt mit einer Analyse. www.feinschwarz.net/michel-de-ce...
Michel de Certeau – ein Reisender durch die mystische Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit - feinschwarz.net
Michel de Certeau SJ (1925-1986) war einer der originellsten Theolog:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Feinschwarz.net begeht seinen hundertsten Geburtstag am 17. Mai 2025 mit einer Artikelreihe. Es eröffne...
www.feinschwarz.net
May 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Michel de Certeau SJ (1925-1986) war einer der originellsten Theolog:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Am 17.5.2025 wäre sein 100. Geburtstag. Margit Eckholt mit einer Analyse. www.feinschwarz.net/michel-de-ce...
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++NEUERSCHEINUNG++
Der Demokratietheoretiker Pierre Rosanvallon regt in »Unsichtbare Institutionen« mithilfe der Konzepte Vertrauen, Autorität und Legitimität zur Wiederherstellung des sozialen Zusammenhalts an: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...
Der Demokratietheoretiker Pierre Rosanvallon regt in »Unsichtbare Institutionen« mithilfe der Konzepte Vertrauen, Autorität und Legitimität zur Wiederherstellung des sozialen Zusammenhalts an: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...
Pierre Rosanvallon, Unsichtbare Institutionen
Von Demokratie und Zusammenhalt
www.hamburger-edition.de
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
++NEUERSCHEINUNG++
Der Demokratietheoretiker Pierre Rosanvallon regt in »Unsichtbare Institutionen« mithilfe der Konzepte Vertrauen, Autorität und Legitimität zur Wiederherstellung des sozialen Zusammenhalts an: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...
Der Demokratietheoretiker Pierre Rosanvallon regt in »Unsichtbare Institutionen« mithilfe der Konzepte Vertrauen, Autorität und Legitimität zur Wiederherstellung des sozialen Zusammenhalts an: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...