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Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science, professor / @KTB_ , guest researcher global intellectual history, political thought, Marxism Türkçe: @atesuslu

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Ateş Uslu

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More or less ready to begin a research sabbatical at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt University in Berlin ( @KTB_Berlin ), on Lukács' political thought in his later years. Library digging has begun at the excellent library of @UniKonstanz , for a variety of reasons.

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I'm not the biggest fan of Benedict Anderson, but injustice is injustice. 1/ Imagined Communities begins with a critique of Gellner's association of the nation with 'fabrication' and 'falsity.' As an alternative, Anderson proposes the concepts of 'imagining' and 'creation.'

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This book needs to be fucking banned. Every liberal with a master's degree is running around claiming 1200 year old European countries were invented by cigarette carton manufacturers in the 1880s because of posts they read on Twitter from someone who skimmed it in a seminar.

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1. The recently published Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought is rich in content for the study of Western political thought, continuing the old-fashioned West-centered approach to the field. It almost ignores, for example, Chinese and Indian traditions.

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6/ The problem is that both uncritical supporters of 'modernist' theory and its detractors who caricature it are united in not actually reading the book itself. * To conclude, reductio ad absurdum "needs to be f*cking banned" from academia—whether on campuses or Twitter.

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2/ For Anderson, 'imagined communities' are not forgeries of 19th-century cigarette carton manufacturers or whatsoever. His notion of imagination is quite sophisticated—though still debatable.

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3/ A key point that must be emphasized against unjust criticisms is that Anderson is fully aware of pre-modern 'imagined communities.' While he underestimates the continuities between pre-modern and modern communities, he doesn't entirely ignore them.

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4/ The book opens with a chapter called 'Cultural Roots,' for pity's sake, where Anderson attempts to understand nationalism by connecting it to "large cultural systems that preceded it." He provides a lengthy catalogue of communities that came before the modern nation.

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5/ Religious community, linguistic community, dynastic realm, etc. are all mentioned. For sure, B. Anderson emphasizes that the modern nation state is a novelty, but he also strongly advocates that it didn't appear out of the blue, from the mind of the 19th-century inventors.

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INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN TURKEY A continuous thread of information about recent publications and events in the field of intellectual history (and related fields) in Turkey, occasionally including some background information. 🧵⤵️

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Waterfield's Plato of Athens is a wonderful read. Beyond the biographical details and hypotheses, I was particularly drawn to the author's brilliant contextualization of Plato's life. Through this biography, one can learn many details about Athenian social and political history.

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4. How long do we have to wait for the non-West to be taken seriously in research handbooks, textbooks, and companion volumes? Maybe we should remember that this discipline was less Eurocentric in its formative decades, as seen in the works of Robert Blakey and Gaetano Mosca.

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Amazed by Ch.Barbour's articles on Marx's early works. Through meticulous textual analysis, he advocates for the idea that the first half of the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right' was written in 1842, under B.Bauer's influence, rather than in 1843 as supposed by Riazanov.

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2. "Arabic (!) political thought" is accorded a chapter, but the reader gets the impression that it emerged merely for the pleasure of being influenced by Greek political thought and for the sake of being an object of interest to the friends and foes of Leo Strauss.

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3. The 500-page volume has many merits, including its historiographical discussions on historical eras and major authors. There is even a short chapter on comparative political thought. But almost nothing else on non-Western regions and thinkers.

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Roy P. Mottahedeh has passed away. His Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society was a good source for understanding Buyid social and intellectual history. Now it's time to read one of his latest articles: "Does Pre-modern Islamic Thought Allow for a Secular Realm?"

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Time to (re)read Vikram Visana's @vmv71241 book on Dadabhai Naoroji, as the recent film "Maharaj" features the "Grand Old Man of India" as one of the characters. (The film itself is controversial, among other things, for its historical accuracy issues, but that's another topic.)

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I might be missing a point regarding "the first book-length monograph" issue.

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This new volume represents the first book-length monograph on the Marxian concept of totality as seen from a philosophical and sociopolitical perspective.

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It means that both in his doctoral dissertation and the 1st half of the 'Critique,' Marx sticks to a more or less strictly Bauerian approach. However, around mid-1843, he starts to break with it, now putting the emphasis on the relationship between the state and private property.

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It’s also interesting that the scholarly community has been relatively silent about it. Any biography of Plato is sure to attract criticism—authenticity and chronology of works are ongoing debates. But one would expect more reviews, both positive and negative, to be published.

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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2024 - session on "György Lukács’ Theoretical Nachlass" with Giorgio Cesarale, Daniel Badenhorst @DanielBadenhor5 , and Oğuz Gürerk

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Just delivered a talk hosted by Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences' Political Philosophy Club @iusiyasetfel . The theme was Hegel's political philosophy, with special reference to E. Buchetmann's @EBuchetmann excellent book on Hegel &the Representative Constitution.

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A second start for this year’s project, this time at the central library of my host institution: the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum at Humboldt University. Coincidentally, this is also the library where I first began writing my Social History of Political Thought, back in 2018.

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Public philosophy is a good idea, but when a mix of popular discourse, high-school-level philosophy concepts, and personal development clichés is labeled as 'public philosophy,' it becomes problematic.

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Okay, I've restrained myself from doing this so far, but the triptych version is seducing me: political philosophy / political theory / history of political thought (feel free to change the order to your preference)

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@Alex_Sideridou Inscription plutôt facilement lisible. Je me permets de faire un exercice de transcription : Άνθρωπε, εἰ μὲν γὰρ φίλος πεφύκας, εἰσεχθὲ χαίρων· εἰ δὲ ἐχθρὸς καὶ ἐπίβουλος, πόρρω τῆς πύλης ταύτης. Σήμερον ἐμοῦ, αὔριον σοῦ, καὶ οὐδέποτε τινός. ἐν ἔτει 1960

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3. Benjamin Constant's Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns has been recently translated into Turkish by Büşra Akkökler Karatekeli. Excerpts were previously published in an anthology of liberalism classics, but this new version is a complete translation.

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The typical philosophy article in Jacobin be like: 'The left should reclaim that liberal philosopher,' 'Let's read this bourgeois thinker from the left,' 'That one wasn't as reactionary as you think.'

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4. C.B. Macpherson's The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism has been translated into Turkish by Ali Karatay. Macpherson's The Real World of Democracy was translated 40 years ago, in 1984, by Levent Köker @LvntKker .

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1. A new Turkish translation of Aristotle's Politics has been published, along with a re-edition of the translation of Magna Moralia, both by Y. Gurur Sev. With these two books, 'Bibliotheka,' a new series of Greek and Roman classics, has been launched by Ketebe Publishing House.

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"Advocating for equity is advocating for communism." Seriously? So, either this is told by a random teenager or by a professor of economics at a high ramking university. The latter may be worse.

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Indeed. Advocating for equity is advocating for communism. So, either Kamala Harris is a communist or she doesn’t know she is advocating for communism. The latter may be worse.

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@Helenreflects Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose. It's a condensed version of his ontology, philosophy of history, and political theory, and it even contains the main idea of "What is Enlightenment".

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Delivering a paper on the current state of the history of political thought in academia at the @BilgiIR Political Philosophy Conference. A very nice event, gathering twenty scholars of political theory, political philosophy, and intellectual history.

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@EvaMontemaggi Sure, but my point is: did he bother to read it himself?

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Lukács was critical of the disavowal of reason, certainly. However, justice? It is one of the less elaborated concepts in the entire Lukácsian corpus, let alone in the 'Destruction of Reason'.

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Socialist intellectual Georg Lukács was an astute critic of right-wing philosophy and its connections to fascism. For Lukács, philosophers of the Right were united by a reactionary disavowal of reason and justice.

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2. Many publishers in Turkey have book series featuring translations from Greek & Roman classics. To name a few: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları ( @iskultur ), Pinhan ( @pinhankitap ), Fol Kitap ( @folkitap ), and Alfa (Veritas Series - @VeritasDizisi ). Some publish bilingual editions.

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PS:The actual break is supposed to have happened in the summer of 1843, while Karl and Jenny were on their honeymoon in the small town of Kreuznach (now Bad Kreuznach), southwest of Frankfurt. This is also where he wrote his 'ruthless criticism of all that exists' letter to Ruge.

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@royllovians @David_Jamieson7 Where exactly does he make this claim?

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"Fear of “the blacks” began to create a whole political culture as a buttress for the slaveowners — what we’re really talking about now is racial capitalism, which demanded a popular mobilization among whites to maintain it."

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Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.

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@e_patulanti Daniel Benga's and Anthony Kaldellis' chapters in this book contain valuable information about Byzantine political thought and Christian theology.

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An excellent critique of early Marxist Lukács' portrayal as a mystical, idealist thinker (shared by his detractors as well as by the promoters of a romantic kind of Marxism). As a matter of fact, despite its many problematic parts, HCC was not an ultra subjectivist pamphlet.

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Lukács’ account of the “moment” (Augenblick) in his unpublished response to critics of HCC is the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, now applied to a collective agent. Marxism - rather than Heidegger - is the legitimate heir to Aristotle’s theory of praxis. 1/

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@jensensuther Lukács has a lengthy chapter on that distinction in his Young Hegel (Part IV, ch. 4, pp. 537 ff. in the English translation). Rodney Livingstone translates Entäußerung as "externalization", by the way.

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@Alex_Sideridou Il paraît que les gens sont souvent confondus par la ligature du digramme ου. C'est très courant dans les inscriptions byzantines et post-byzantines.

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@JKandiyali The introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History includes an excellent summary of Hegel's political philosophy (Chapter: 'Actualization of Spirit in History,' sections c and d). It is, more or less, a condensed version of the relevant parts of the PhR.

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A very good talk on Indian materialism. The parts on the Mughal era and the Chinese connection are particularly interesing. The interview is also a good occasion to commemorate Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, an excellent historian of Indian materialism, who passed away on October 2022.

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A new interview w me at the Indian Carvaka/Lokayata channel is now online. On the 2500+ years old tradition of #atheism & skepticism, from Harappa to the Mughals/Phule + influence on China/Europe. Mentioned: @Ethan_Mills_42 , @krishnadeltoso #Carvaka Link:

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Totally accurate. One might add a variant to this: To label anything bad encountered in politics or even in everyday life with the sacred formula, 'The Banality of Evil'.

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I'm calling for a new #fallacy : the Arendt fallacy. The basic structure is to find an analogy between a political phenomenon or movement you dislike and one element from #Arendt 's Origins of #Totalitarianism to then conclude that the phenomenon *is* totalitarian.

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@VersoBooks

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@IChountis Συγχαρητήρια!

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@Helenreflects Striking resemblance to a sentence in Yoshida Kenkō's 14-th c. 'Essays in Idleness' ⤵️

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“to sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare." — yoshida kenkō, medieval buddhist monk (1283-1350)

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Review of an interesting book on Bengali women from the late 18th to the early 20th c. Unfortunately, very little information is available on people like Hoti Vidyalankar.

Hoti’s Daughters

Their examples have nudged generations into embracing a different life. Then why do the stories of these women continue to gather dust in history’s margins?

www.telegraphindia.com

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Begum Rokeya "argues that men have cunningly manipulated women under the guise of love, reducing them to the status of "bonded slaves", "domesticated animals", and "feckless mannequins"."

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#RokeyaSakhawatHossain (1880-1932), fondly known as #BegumRokeya , was an autodidact who became a formidable champion of women’s rights and #Education when women in South Asia, especially Muslim women, were forced to live in subhuman conditions, almost like animals, or even worse

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@WoeToChorazin Does Debray's book include anything related to the French Revolution?

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@JKandiyali Exactly. An alternative would be the Encyclopedia, §§535-547, which is also more concise and approachable than the Philosophy of Right itself. However, I personally find it a less pleasant read than the Introduction to the Philosophy of History.

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@vmv71241 Sure! I've read your previous articles on Dadabhai and on Indian political economy, and they were insightful. The book will be a fresh start to studying his political thinking.

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@GloubbiBoulgga @Alex_Sideridou ou

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