Martin Kusch

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Am 15. März 1920 streikten 12 Millionen Arbeiter gegen den Kapp-Putsch und retteten damit die Weimarer Republik. Heute ist der politische Streik und Generalstreik in Deutschland verboten – ein antidemokratisches Erbe ehemaliger Nazi-Juristen in der BRD. jacobin.de/artikel/kapp-p…

The NATO treaty says that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." Trump reads this as: "If the U.S. starts an illegal war that it cannot win, the others have to come to its aid."

Very sorry to learn that Dagfinn Føllesdal has died. He often visited Helsinki while I was a PhD student there in the 1980s, and he always was wonderfully encouraging. And I learnt so much from him about Husserl and Frege. R.I.P.

My heart goes out to my friends and colleagues in Israel and Iran: Be safe! I hope this madness ends quickly.

Off to Brussels tomorrow for a week-long ERC evaluation panel. Should be fun -- at least it was fun two years ago!

No words. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/…

@agbtm True!

@MartinKusch ask your pharmacist about compatibility - they know and it’s really their responsibility.

Brave new world. Went to see a doctor this week. When he prescribed me a new medication, I asked whether it is compatible with medications I am taking. He said: "Let me think." He spent about two minutes on his computer. Then he said: "Should be absolutely fine. Chatgpt says so."

@ChrisBocay Thank you, and the same to you, too.

@MartinKusch Congratulations! I really like these Cambridge Elements, for they are easily digested, at least in terms of their length! Have a great day! 😀🙋‍♂️

Hooray! My second Cambridge Element (this one on "Wittgenstein and Relativism") has gone off to the press. Should be out in a couple of months. May well have been my last publication on Wittgenstein. Next stop: the metaphysics of knowledge. #philosophy

You couldn't make it up. nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/…

Ditto!

First Musikverein concert of the New season: the Tonkünstler play Strauss, "Ein Heldenleben."

@rbnmckenna86 Good point! Must grab the dog and go for a walk ... (and then start working on our book).

@MartinKusch Is this the best way to spend your retirement Martin?

Reading a German Habilitation thesis of 680 pages. On page 293, the author has finally reached the point where they "are now able to formulate the question that we are trying to answer." (Sometimes even I am surprised by my stamina.)

@axel_elj @krim_rub Alas, no, not a joke.

@krim_rub @MartinKusch It was a joke, right? Hahaha. Almost 300 pages just to define the thesis — that sounds like Derrida. He often does that. His book on animals is a good example.

@archimate @natefoster 1980s

@MartinKusch @natefoster … the key point, though, being: WHEN was the thesis question actually being concocted.