Ask the Author: Anna C. Ezekiel
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Anna C. Ezekiel
Everything by N. K. Jemisin, and any of Anna Kavan's work I haven't read yet. I think I might revisit Jim Butcher's Dresden Files for some real relaxation. And I see Joe Abercrombie has a new book out...
On the philosophy front, I think it's time to dive into some Herder, Hemsterhuis and Hölderlin.
On the philosophy front, I think it's time to dive into some Herder, Hemsterhuis and Hölderlin.
Anna C. Ezekiel
My biggest current project is a follow up to "Poetic Fragments," this time as part of Oxford University Press' "Oxford New Histories of Philosophy" series. This will be a selection of Karoline von Günderrode's most philosophically promising published and unpublished works, letters, and notebooks from her philosophical and scientific studies, translated into English and with lots of commentary from me to help access and contextualise Günderrode's thought, which still hasn't been much explored. I hope it will help lecturers integrate Günderrode's work into their teaching on German philosophy and Romanticism.
I've also just finished translating excerpts from the work of eight historical German women philosophers for Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar's "Women Philosophers of the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition," forthcoming with Oxford University Press. The editors did an amazing job of selecting texts from Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edith Stein, Gerda Walther, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and Germaine de Staël (I translated all of these). Some of the writing is phenomenal: my favourite is Dohm's "Nietzsche and Women." I wrote my PhD thesis on Nietzsche and I can't believe I didn't know about this essay. Everyone who studies Nietzsche should read it.
My colleague Katerina Mihaylova and I are also collaborating on an anthology of papers on the topic of hope in German philosophy after Kant. We've collected most of the papers and I'm really excited about how the volume is shaping up - it's a timely topic, and the concept of hope is oddly neglected in the literature on Kant and his successors.
In addition to the book-length projects, I'm working on multiple articles on various aspects of Günderrode's philosophical thought. I'm most excited about a paper on Günderrode's idea of friendship, which I hope will be published later this year in "Symphilosophie," the amazing new journal on Romantic philosophy.
Last of all, I'm trying my hand at writing fiction, mainly for my own amusement but we'll see what comes of it! I'm working on the last edits for a science fiction novel featuring protagonists abandoned on a planet threatened by a falling moon.
I've also just finished translating excerpts from the work of eight historical German women philosophers for Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar's "Women Philosophers of the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition," forthcoming with Oxford University Press. The editors did an amazing job of selecting texts from Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edith Stein, Gerda Walther, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and Germaine de Staël (I translated all of these). Some of the writing is phenomenal: my favourite is Dohm's "Nietzsche and Women." I wrote my PhD thesis on Nietzsche and I can't believe I didn't know about this essay. Everyone who studies Nietzsche should read it.
My colleague Katerina Mihaylova and I are also collaborating on an anthology of papers on the topic of hope in German philosophy after Kant. We've collected most of the papers and I'm really excited about how the volume is shaping up - it's a timely topic, and the concept of hope is oddly neglected in the literature on Kant and his successors.
In addition to the book-length projects, I'm working on multiple articles on various aspects of Günderrode's philosophical thought. I'm most excited about a paper on Günderrode's idea of friendship, which I hope will be published later this year in "Symphilosophie," the amazing new journal on Romantic philosophy.
Last of all, I'm trying my hand at writing fiction, mainly for my own amusement but we'll see what comes of it! I'm working on the last edits for a science fiction novel featuring protagonists abandoned on a planet threatened by a falling moon.
Anna C. Ezekiel
I love the flexibility - I work on what I want to, when I want to. My favourite times writing are first thing in the morning, drinking tea and working when my energy is highest and I'm most relaxed. Best of all is when I'm in the countryside somewhere and can work outside or looking through a window at lots of green.
Anna C. Ezekiel
I've never really had writer's block. I have the opposite problem: I'm always full of ideas and enthusiasm, and there's never enough time to work on everything I want to. Worse: I have CFS, so I often have to step away from my work to recover my energy when I'm dying to keep going. Sometimes one piece of work isn't progressing well and I need to take a break from it, but I don't think of this as a block: sometimes, ideas just need to percolate and sort themselves out. I always have another project pressing for my attention, so I work on whichever seems the most urgent and return to paused projects when I feel excited about them again.
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