The Book of Nocturnes: Philosophical Fragments. Spring Publications, 2025.
If the day is the time of logic, clarity, and certainty, the night represents the neglected part of human experience, the domain of art, religion, and poetry. This book is composed of 170 fragments — not aphorisms, but texts that break off before reaching a conclusion, each a whole, read on its own or come upon by opening the book at random. Varied, eclectic, personal, and literary, it is not a work of academic philosophy but a tool for entering one's own night. Written in the clandestine world of the night while its author spent his days on more conventional scholarly projects, the book guided him along the way, rather than the other way round.
A Polish edition, Księga nokturnów: Fragmenty filozoficzne, translated by Mateusz Stróżyński, has been published by Universitas (2026).
Schelling and the Ages of the World. Edinburgh University Press, 2026.
What does it mean for something to begin? Schelling and the Ages of the World reads the unfinished texts he wrote between 1809 and 1821, and argues that their fragmentary, repetitive, esoteric form is an achievement rather than a flaw. By refusing to be completed, the Ages shows where conceptual thinking reaches its limit: at the threshold of the genuinely new.
Fichte in Berlin: The 1804 Wissenschaftslehre. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024.
When Fichte lost his chair at Jena and moved to Berlin (a city with no university) in 1799, it looked as if his career was over. Fichte in Berlin argues the opposite: that it was here, lecturing in his own home, that his thought came to maturity. In its reading of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, one of the most compelling of the many versions of his "Science of Knowing," the book takes seriously Fichte's insistence that such a philosophy cannot only be studied but must be performed, and thought through for oneself.