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amar

@complex_whole

7 months

Describe your interest in just four books

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Describe your interests in just four books

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amar

@complex_whole

4 months

Given this whole NEET and now NET-JRF faisco by NTA the higher education in India has collapsed. We should demand the following- 1) Scrap NTA entirely 2) Universities/ medical inst. etc should be given complete autonomy to conduct their own entrance examinations

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@complex_whole

5 months

Take a bow to UP rural people. Hell of a voter!

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@complex_whole

2 years

Springs in JNU.

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@complex_whole

1 year

It is one year of my M.Phil thesis defense, under supervision of Prof. Vidhu Verma at CPS, JNU. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this thesis, particularly two aspects of Althusser— difference between Hegel totality and Marxian social whole; and critique of empiricism,

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@complex_whole

5 months

Among the most interesting things I still love about JNU is conversations/discussions about things people read: a friend reading Postone, another Phule, Nietzsche, Heidegger; Bordieu, Chatterjee, or Benjamin, Arendt or even readings and so on, across centres. They are, at times,

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@complex_whole

2 years

Behind the school of Life Sciences, JNU

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@complex_whole

1 year

New arrivals. Also, had a wonderful day. 🌼

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@complex_whole

2 years

SSS 3 Canteen, JNU

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@complex_whole

3 years

Happy Birthday Derrida. ❤

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amar

@complex_whole

11 months

five books that had a great influence on my thought and I love going back to them again and again. (1/2)

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@complex_whole

3 years

Because he is the best. ❤

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@complex_whole

2 months

Current read.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Who is the most boring continental philosopher?

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amar

@complex_whole

3 years

MacIntyre.

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amar

@complex_whole

10 months

Cute. I am at home and I have access to my University.

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amar

@complex_whole

7 months

PhD admissions through NET score: not sure where we are going.

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amar

@complex_whole

10 months

planning to begin my new year with this. And a list of books I plan to read in 2024, a thread.

amar

@complex_whole

10 months

feel like reading Benjamin.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Hannah Arendt

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@complex_whole

2 years

Heidegger is so beautiful at times.

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@complex_whole

4 months

3) The Education Minister should resign, UGC Chairman should resign 4) Reschedule of this NET/JRF exam and it should no longer be the criteria for PhD admissions

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

Central library, JNU.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

@fasc1nate Their orbit is not circular.

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amar

@complex_whole

3 years

The last line sounds like Heinrich.

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amar

@complex_whole

3 years

Thanks Twitter philosophy and people who wished me luck. I cleared JRF (Junior Research Fellowship, a fellowship given by University Grants Commission in India). Now, I will be able to buy more books on Hegel and more than that will be able to apply for my PhD. Thanks again. 🌻

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Shared by a friend; I thoroughly enjoyed this paper. I just wish there was more discussion on the notion of time in poetry.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

The depth of thought Hegel has surprises me every time I read him.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Introduce yourself with Seven books: Ethics— Spinoza Phenomenology of Spirit — Hegel Science of Logic— Hegel Capital — Marx For Marx— Althusser Being and Time— Heidegger Margins of Philosophy— Derrida

Tiger King -- marxistvaderist.bsky.social

@MarxistVaderist

2 years

Introduce yourself with Seven Books: Logics of Worlds -- Badiou Wretched of the Earth -- Fanon Civ and its Discontents -- Freud Phenomenology of Spirit -- Hegel Capital v1 -- Marx Universality and Identity Politics -- McGowan Learning Politics from Sivaram -- Mark P. Whitaker

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

JNU.

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@complex_whole

1 year

this is how I read.

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@complex_whole

3 years

How can someone (Hegel) be this “deep”?

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Listened to Aishwary Kumar for the first time today in person. It was really very illuminating and rich in content. Thanks BAPSA for organizing this wonderful event.

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amar

@complex_whole

7 months

Hegel says philosophy happens in language. Balibar says in an interview the whole point of philosophy is learning to write. Derrida says there is no outside text. But our higher education bodies (UGC/NTA etc) think exactly opposite of this. (Quoting all from memory)

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

Paani hi nhi aa rha hostel mein, what PhD will we write. :(

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amar

@complex_whole

3 years

I am falling in love with Hegel. ❤

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amar

@complex_whole

6 months

some random, intuitionist about-to-be evening walks ended up taking me India Coffee House.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

What a weather! 🌼

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@complex_whole

1 year

a bit of ENS?

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amar

@complex_whole

4 years

For proofreading. ❤ (Now, I love myself)

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amar

@complex_whole

3 months

Some SSS II photos.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

Socrates, he who doesn’t write. — Nietzsche (now, this book has a proper name, in the genre of ‘new arrivals’)🌼🍁 Also, the seller gave me an extra 20 percent discount. Really happy!

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amar

@complex_whole

5 months

At some point, I want to write a paper on Democracy, Elections and Representation with special focus on rural and urban differences in India- taking a cue from Heidegger’s notion of belonging, phenomenology and Rousseau notion of participation.

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amar

@complex_whole

5 months

way too substantive & at times, on a lighter note, really polemic. Not to forget about the political background in which these texts appear and the influence they had. There is also, one hears at some small gatherings great debates around these and their theoretical positions.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

Today is Althusser’s birthday. ❤️

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Idealism is when you think about an idea and materialism is when you think about matter.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Our library doesn’t even have Cambridge translations on Hegel. :(

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

@JNU_official_50

2 years

According to the QS World University rankings by Subject 2023,JNU has breached the 100 rank mark in Politics. JNU VC Prof Santishree Pandit congratulates the CPS & SIS faculty members & students for this achievement. VC also thanks the MoE for their trust in reposing faith in JNU

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

A click from yesterday’s evening.

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@complex_whole

3 years

What a mail I just got. My abstract got accepted in “Fourth International Colloquium on Louis Althusser”. I am so happy. ❤🌼

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@complex_whole

1 year

Time is such a powerful idea, it never stops surprising me. Be it calendar time (commemoration, remembrance etc), historical time (spirit, subject and its constitution), life-time (hermeneutical/historicist), capital time (real history, non-contemporaneity) (1/3)

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

‘... the seriousness, the suffering, the patience, and the labour of the negative.’ — Phenomenology, Hegel happy birthday.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

Got two new books from library! 😀

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

I have read a lot of writings on Hegel but this is truly unmatched.

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@complex_whole

3 years

“The knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet”. —RC, Althusser

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@complex_whole

5 months

and I have always loved it- at India Coffee House, SSS canteens, dhabas etc.

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@complex_whole

1 year

so far the best academic profile.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

It is disgusting and troubling to see how Althusser is thoroughly misunderstood, and hence misrepresented, by some people. Read some clarificatory essays by Balibar on epistemological break, and then say something.

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amar

@complex_whole

2 years

JNU

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@complex_whole

5 months

That some people associated with what they are constantly reading are also welcomed/critiqued and seen as a grounding of one’s politics (perhaps not so suspiciously). Overall, this has a significant impact on our learning as a collective

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amar

@complex_whole

3 months

thesis days.

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@complex_whole

2 years

1. Metaphysics, Aristotle 2. Science of Logic, Hegel 3. Capital Vol. I, Marx 4. Being and Time, Heidegger 5. Margins of Philosophy, Derrida

Patrick Flynn

@PatFlynnCOS

2 years

Please list your top 5 philosophy books for beginners.

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@complex_whole

1 year

the weather is lovely so I clicked some pictures.

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@complex_whole

1 year

humanism and historicism. I realised, there is so much to learn from Althusser— epistemological break, critique of historicism, history as a process without subject, theoretical anti-humanism, a different kind of materialism (critique of teleology and subject) and so on.

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@complex_whole

3 years

After reading this essay I am convinced that Marxism is a “science of history”.

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@complex_whole

2 years

“Remember, University is a space for free and independent thinking”, says distinguished historian Prof. Romila Thapar. It was deeply insightful listening to her: as she shared some very rich methodological points on history and social sciences.

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@complex_whole

3 years

This is one of the best chapters I am reading in Althusser’s oeuvre. #HegelAlthusserandtheconceptofhistoricaltime

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@complex_whole

2 years

The last three lines!

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@complex_whole

4 months

See the precarity of Indian higher education: students lives are dependent on some shady exams.

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@complex_whole

1 year

reading some Spivak this morning!

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@complex_whole

2 years

Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel.

elisa

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2 years

name a book who destroyed you like that

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1 year

‘A time in which some history must take place. A time moved from within by an irresistible force, producing its own content. It is a dialectical time par excellence. A time that abolishes the other time and the structure of its spatial representation.’ — For Marx, Althusser

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@complex_whole

3 years

Life-world. ❤

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@complex_whole

1 year

it’s not easy for a Hegelian to win over a Spinozist. they have substance.

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amar

@complex_whole

1 year

went to a good cafe with bookstore.

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@complex_whole

2 years

I took a tea break. :)

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@complex_whole

1 year

We must treat Hegel as, literally, a subject. — Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel

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2 years

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1 year

JRF hi nhi aa rha hai 4 months se, what research will we do. :(

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@complex_whole

3 months

clicked some pictures today as well.

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@complex_whole

3 years

I love going back to these lines, again and again. And it is very rare to find a writing like this: and to that extent Althusser is absolutely singular.

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@complex_whole

1 year

‘Hegel is still too Spinozistic for us to be able to speak of pure humanism; a pure humanism culminates only in skeptical irony and platitude.’ — Hyppolite

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@complex_whole

1 year

Today is Proust’s birthday. 🌼 An image of the past harbors, in me, by present distancing from the past— as memory. Let not forget so many distinct (or sometimes indistinct) conversations— of whose subject we used to be once.

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@complex_whole

2 years

Sometimes I just love philosophy!

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@complex_whole

6 years

This is going to be historic as the Themes, speakers and Chairs suggest. Pushing the boundaries in terms of ideas and engagements. Will make my day at a time when I am struggling with my synopsis. Thanks a lot for organizing it! @aakash_ironman @kumararvind_ @deepakbiswas191

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@complex_whole

1 year

new arrivals. 🌼

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@complex_whole

1 year

A friend insisted me to do Deleuze’s critique of Hegel. So here I am. New arrivals. 🌼

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@complex_whole

10 months

Not really a good book store. I was really disappointed. Nothing of theory, or modern literature. They had mostly popular epic, mythic books that too from random, perhaps, shady translations. Their way to display a book was just terrible. Bahri sons is much much better than this.

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@complex_whole

1 year

Overall, it was just a wonderful experience and I am deeply associated with my M.Phil. Further, my interest in Hegel is only through my reading of Louis Althusser: to that extent his influence on me is life long!

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@complex_whole

3 years

I am liking this article very much.

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@complex_whole

2 years

One of the problems of doing philosophy is you get influenced by whatever you read. The (absolute) present (and text in hand) certainly enjoys a primacy even when there is no one to one correspondence between what the present is and its knowledge. It was pretty much my case.

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@complex_whole

3 years

This is beautiful.

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