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/
Some pictures from the panel on Absolute Ethical Life at Historicalmaterialism.org with Alyssa Battistoni, Tatiana Llaguno and Patrick Murray. Wonderful to talk about the book with comrades.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Some pictures from the panel on Absolute Ethical Life at Historicalmaterialism.org with Alyssa Battistoni, Tatiana Llaguno and Patrick Murray. Wonderful to talk about the book with comrades.
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and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...
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.
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William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
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NDPR review
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NDPR review
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October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
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NDPR review
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NDPR review
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/race...
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
Tonight!
SYDNEY launch of Absolute Ethical Life, with Jean-Philippe Deranty! 12 August at Gleebooks.
August 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Tonight!
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now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
August 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
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Schedule of INDIGNITY events in September/October @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - save the dates and stay tuned for more in other countries 😊😍🐥!!
July 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Schedule of INDIGNITY events in September/October @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - save the dates and stay tuned for more in other countries 😊😍🐥!!
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
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The 20th of July will mark the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth
In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria
In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria
July 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The 20th of July will mark the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth
In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria
In his honour, a film directed by Abdenour Zahzah will be released this month tracing the young man's time as the head of the fifth ward of the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital, set during 1953 in colonised Algeria
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...
Joining @jensensuther.bsky.social for a discussion of the significance of Aristotle and Hegel in Marx's thought and Marxist theory/June 29 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00
marxedproject.org/event/aristo...
marxedproject.org/event/aristo...
Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue - Marxist Education Project
Join us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring the authors of two forthcoming books. Michael Lazarus is the author of 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx,' and Jensen Suther is...
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June 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Joining @jensensuther.bsky.social for a discussion of the significance of Aristotle and Hegel in Marx's thought and Marxist theory/June 29 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00
marxedproject.org/event/aristo...
marxedproject.org/event/aristo...
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Watch closely to see if you can tell when i am trying to simultaneously read my talk and get a dog treat out from under my desk to quiet a barking dog
I couldn't attend, but luckily it was recorded: a seminar by Chris O'Kane on 'A Critical Theory of Social Domination'
youtu.be/mR22IB5AyeQ?...
youtu.be/mR22IB5AyeQ?...
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Watch closely to see if you can tell when i am trying to simultaneously read my talk and get a dog treat out from under my desk to quiet a barking dog
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Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life by @michaellazarus.bsky.social provides resources for understanding how freedom & rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life by @michaellazarus.bsky.social provides resources for understanding how freedom & rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today
www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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.
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Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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
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Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!?
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!?
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
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:
"The separation of morality from history, from desire discovered through the discovery of that common human nature which history shows as emerging, leaves morality without any basis."
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Notes From the Moral Wilderness."
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Notes From the Moral Wilderness."
May 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"The separation of morality from history, from desire discovered through the discovery of that common human nature which history shows as emerging, leaves morality without any basis."
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Notes From the Moral Wilderness."
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Notes From the Moral Wilderness."