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08/04/2025

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01/04/2025

⏳ ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT⏳
The call for submissions for the 2025 Patterson Prize is open until May 1st! This year, the award will be given to the best text submitted in English. The winner will receive $500 USD and have their work published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies. For more details, visit: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/sdbs-overview.xml

28/03/2025

25/03/2025

📍 Snapshot from .2025 in Erlangen: Michael Jungert, organizer of the conference and co-editor of "Scheitern in den Wissenschaften" (Failure in the Sciences), pictured with Acquisitions Editor Stephan Kopsieker from De Gruyter Brill.

Published by Brill | mentis, this interdisciplinary volume addresses the often-overlooked role of failure in scientific practice—its forms, functions, and even its productive potential. A timely contribution to the philosophy of science and research culture.

📘 Learn more about the book: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/64834

21/03/2025

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?

In this German-language blog interview, Beatrice Kobow explores why feminist perspectives are vital to the future of philosophy—especially in the fields of epistemology and social ontology.
Published as part of our Female Voices in Academia campaign.

🔗 Read the interview (in German): https://blog.brill.com/display/post/guest-post/interview/abstract/ende-der-philosophie.xml
📘 Learn more about her book 'Bedeutungspermanenz': https://brill.com/display/title/70286

19/03/2025

17/03/2025

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿

Prof. Ruth Edith Hagengruber has made history as the first woman elected President of the German Philosophical Society. In her recent Brill Blog interview, she discusses the need to expand the philosophical canon and the mission of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (https://brill.com/JHWP).

Read the full interview on the Brill Blog: https://blog.brill.com/display/post/interview/women-in-philosophy.xml

07/03/2025

Out now!

This is an English translation of “Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value”, first published by Isaak Illich Rubin in 1923 in the Soviet Union. It sparked a fierce value controversy with contemporary Soviet economists during the late 1920s. As such, the present translation is conceived as a variorum edition, including for the first time in English all the essential supplementary materials related to this foundational work in Marx’s value theory.
brill.ws/hm339

07/03/2025

As we transition from Black History Month into Women’s History Month, we are presented with an opportunity to reflect on the complex intersection of gender, capital, and ethnicity; this is an ideal moment to engage with Simone de Beauvoir Studies Volume 34.2., titled "Sites of Coercion: Plantation, Colony, Metropole / Lieux de coercition: la plantation, la colonie, le métropole", and edited by Janine Jones.

This issue critically examines different sites of coercion, ranging from the plantation system in the Antebellum South and the French colonial empire to contemporary Maranhão, Brazil. It offers a thoughtful exploration of how these historical and ongoing systems continue to impact the lives and bodies of women of color.

Quoted here is an excerpt from Janine Jones' powerful Editor’s Introduction. For a more in-depth exploration of this volume, read Jones’ full introduction here: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/34/2/article-p171_1.xml

28/02/2025

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

As Black History Month comes to a close and Women’s History Month begins, we highlight a powerful special issue of Simone de Beauvoir Studies: "Sites of Coercion: Plantation, Colony, Metropole."

Edited by Janine Jones, this issue explores how race, gender, and colonial structures create and sustain coercive systems—from antebellum plantations to contemporary state control.

🔍 Read the freely available introduction: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/34/2/article-p171_1.xml

This issue brings critical voices into conversation, examining the entangled legacies of oppression and resistance—an urgent dialogue at the intersection of Black and feminist thought.

26/02/2025

Patterson Prize (article in English)
Deadline: May 1st, 2025

Prize: $500 USD and publication of the winning text in Simone de Beauvoir Studies (vol. 36)

The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that exemplifies excellence in writing while also reflecting the modes of thought and expression characteristic of Simone de Beauvoir’s oeuvre. We look forward to recognizing outstanding contributions that embody the intellectual rigor and depth of her legacy.

For more details: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/sdbs-overview.xml?contents=editorialcontent-129015&fbclid=IwY2xjawIk1TdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcKXnqY8q2c67tCjtF6z3qMCRzuk21Paak0L-07KG1UWgmVH4b9SmTydFg_aem_Hqu7oiSCmHHPBSi0L4-9JA
For inquiries: [email protected]