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anna

24 days

i wrote an essay about spending time with a painting and gathering my thoughts about hands and faces, love and secrecy, and how it feels to be touched. i am quite pleased with this one, and i'd love to hear people's thoughts. link in bio! <3

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29 days

i schedule my emails to send at 9:17 or 8:34 or whatever so it seems more authentic. everyone knows what's up with a 9:00 email

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1 month

he’s there for the tote bag

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1 month

James Joyce with Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Co, Paris, 1920

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when i started uni i had an existential crisis bc i wanted to read everything. i tried biology, anthropology books etc & not just philosophy, but didn’t get far. i had a meeting w my tutor where i said i wanted to be like berger or sontag & he told me about plath’s fig tree story

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i’m an unapologetic double, triple, quadruple-texter. i am a scrapbook texter: i will send unrelated messages at any time during the day of thoughts and pictures, anything i found interesting

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4 months

just people living in the moment … not a single research proposal or grant application in sight

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my dream is to write so consciously and deliberately that my essays imperceptibly become poetry

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@moonbeeaam

2 months

1. it’s a shame that when we grow up we often lose or dismiss our ability to talk about art so casually and curiously like this 2. it’s interesting how comfortable these children are with the idea of ambiguous gender

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2 months

John Berger discussing Caravaggio with some school kids [from 'Ways of Seeing', 1972]

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

i saw the lighthouse which inspired virginia woolf’s “to the lighthouse”

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@bleakhousing

3 months

Buried in the NYTimes article. A quotation from Ithaca’s police chief:

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@moonbeeaam

2 years

just got diagnosed with the human condition

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

this is only true if you think “this is art” means “this is good art”, which is a strange but common assumption

Possum Reviews

@ReviewsPossum

4 months

The idea that "anything can be art" is a destructive notion that devalues art by implying works such as the Mona Lisa are of equal cultural value to a banana duct taped to a wall, and I find that notion wholly unworthy of respect.

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anna

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14 days

when an undergrad corners you at a department event to ask if you’ve heard of mark fisher or lacan

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anna

@moonbeeaam

3 years

In the 80s, Andrea Dworkin and Allen Ginsberg had an argument over Ginsberg's support for child pornography and paedophilia, and Ginsberg said, "The right wants to put me in jail." Dworkin responded, "Yes, they're very sentimental; I'd kill you."

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@moonbeeaam

3 months

maybe we’re supposed to find joan didion cool here , but i’m on andy warhol’s side. she is making for a terrible conversationalist

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3 months

i understand… she wanted to be there for the publication of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia

𖤐 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘 𖤐

@ghostijn

3 months

y’all..😭 there are so many wrong things about this

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6 months

the fact that time passes is way more tragic than the fact that i will die. that’s why proust is more meaningful than heidegger

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1 year

Why do we in philosophy act as if the medieval period didn’t happen? As if history jumped from ancient times to the 16th century

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18 days

essay writing should aspire to have the quality of music

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3 months

what are some very formally inventive novels from the last 10-15 years ? i mean genuinely inventive, not just very long sentences or something

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9 months

I finally finished reading this book! It is definitely, easily, the best book of philosophy I have ever read. And maybe just the best book I have read, full stop

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2 months

this type of paragraph, which appears in most academic lgbt/feminist writing, has the same tone as land acknowledgments to me. it’s not politics, it’s just bearing witness to suffering

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@moonbeeaam

16 days

is this right? isn’t the wisdom of greek tragedy often the very opposite?

Dylan O'Sullivan

@DylanoA4

17 days

James Hollis, it’s been you all along

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2 months

Some of Hegel explained: Jay Bernstein was in a bar with his friend, skipping class, and he criticised Freud for thinking the mind was all in the head. His friend said: ‘So, where is it?’ and he replied ‘It’s here. Between us.’

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@sanjehorah

2 months

tired of dating apps, can someone explain hegel to me?

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@moonbeeaam

17 days

somehow i found exactly what i was looking for

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@moonbeeaam

21 days

@enniottefire i want something with poetic / very deliberate prose, some kind of lush atmosphere, and a lot of psychological-existential depth

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27 days

i am being tormented by thoughts about the philosophy of mathematics

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@moonbeeaam

3 months

im glad people like this tweet because it took ages to get it under the character limit

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@moonbeeaam

1 year

every leftist has an untouched copy of Critique of Everyday Life they got during a verso sale

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

some books are discussed so much, but when you actually read them yourself you realise that it’s only the opening chapters that people really talk about

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@moonbeeaam

1 year

i love film criticism. “film was too left wing” … “film was not left wing enough” … so many interesting opinions !

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3 years

@ApikorosRope They had been friends previously, and Dworkin came to despise him because of his views. Here’s how she tells the story in her memoir ‘Heartbreak’:

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@moonbeeaam

6 months

I think what I want to find with philosophy is an explanation for why experiences of art seem to constitute my life rather than just ornamenting it

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@moonbeeaam

1 month

please can the philosophy community get a new joke. the cover of the phenomenology of spirit is not that funny

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@moonbeeaam

6 months

Nostalgia is not for the God we are missing, it is the nostalgia for ourselves who are not enough. We miss our impossible grandeur——my unreachable present is my paradise lost. — Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey)

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

i used to be interested in Lacan and his followers but now i am a lot less interested. maybe it has its uses, but Lacan’s esotericism means that his readers and followers don’t learn how to think, but only how to speak in a certain manner. So many Lacanian texts claim to be 1/3

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@moonbeeaam

20 days

this is great criticism. i think there’s an increase in liberal, artsy, well-intentioned gender essentialism, & we should be as critical of it as we are of its more vitriolic cousin

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wrote about rachel cusk

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@moonbeeaam

6 months

I wish Agamben was a better philosopher because the titles and covers of his books are so cool

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

people posting the books they read in a single month always reminds me how incredibly slow i am as a reader

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3 months

what are some films which are philosophical without feeling like 'thought experiments'? (so more like First Reformed or Margaret or Yi Yi and less like Truman Show or The Matrix)

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

how many problems can you find in this single paragraph in The Times’s new Judith Butler review?

A.V. Marraccini

@saintsoftness

4 months

Damn, the Times assigned a TERF to review Butler. Whatever you think of the new one or its failings, this is just an embarrassment of a review. Between this and the Oyler/Observer incident, I'm starting to think a lot of major UK papers simply do not care if reviewers read.

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@moonbeeaam

7 months

I used to feel this way. But when you consider Benjamin’s life—his rejection from academia, his exile, how some of his friends didn’t even consider him as a philosopher—you can start to read him in a different way to how you’d read, e.g., Adorno or Horkheimer

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@vampireontitus

7 months

Low key beyond a few essays do not get the Walter Benjamin thing. 90% of it is bad Marxism, hopelessly vague, or just not true.

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@moonbeeaam

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bold concept : avant garde writing that is neither fragmentary nor very long sentences

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@moonbeeaam

6 months

I may have zero publications, but I have an extensive bibliography of essays I’ve started and then got mad at and left unfinished

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Gillian Rose

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28 days

whenever i walk past this mcdonald’s, i think about how it appears in the work of W.G. Sebald. which is a relief to me, since it tells me that your days don’t have to be filled with extraordinary things to be able to write extraordinarily about them

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6 months

opened an old document of an essay I was trying to write. sometimes this is as far as i can get

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@moonbeeaam

8 months

confidently calling Kant “counter-enlightenment” is pretty hilarious

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@moonbeeaam

3 months

happy birthday to my favourite philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, who recognised that ethics and politics—and presumably protests too—are often too complicated to be described by conventional rule

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@moonbeeaam

5 months

two UK philosophy departments starting to disappear in the same week is making me wonder how much longer the arts & humanities will even exist in academia

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@moonbeeaam

2 months

for anyone interested i have written 80,000+ words (so far) trying to explain hegel here :

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@moonbeeaam

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Some of Hegel explained: Jay Bernstein was in a bar with his friend, skipping class, and he criticised Freud for thinking the mind was all in the head. His friend said: ‘So, where is it?’ and he replied ‘It’s here. Between us.’

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roland barthes criticised the tendency of reducing authors and their books to singular, catchy ideas. which makes the mainstream legacy of roland barthes sadly ironic

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Academic philosophy works by telling you that, in order to do the meaningful thinking, you have to do a bunch of dull work first. And the dull work piles up more and more until, hopefully, you forget you wanted to do anything meaningful in the first place

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Showing up to your first ever philosophy class excited to talk about what makes for a good and meaningful life but instead they’re talking about “priors” and “eliminative materialism”

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

people talk a lot about throwing books across the room. i have never done that. does anyone really, genuinely do that?

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@moonbeeaam

8 months

there’s probably a lacanian who thinks this

DEATHCORE DOGGY

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8 months

what if women aren't actually on the autism spectrum and autistic people are actually just on the woman spectrum

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11 months

i wonder if the online idea of “aesthetics” (dark academia, cottagecore, etc) is the result of a desire for subculture in an environment that prevents it (i.e. an internet which pushes everyone into the same few spaces)

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@moonbeeaam

6 months

I’m having my daily “I can’t do it” crisis about academia. If only in my teenage years i had developed an interest for accountancy or something instead of philosophy !

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Although I’d like to be a philosophy professor and a writer, I wonder if I should aim for something more achievable, like being an astronaut

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2 years

lately i’m thinking about what kind of PhD i want to do, and it’s making me think of Žižek’s joke: “if you want to analyse a rat’s vertebra, that’s philosophy. If you want to analyse Hegel, that’s comp lit”

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as i grow up i am more and more faced with the question : can a person realistically hope to have encounters like this in real life, or are there some dreams that we can only act out in fiction? it’s a genuine question

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academics will be like “holiday reading!” and it’s a book called “Etymology in Biblical Hermeneutics in 17th-century Italy” or something. and i love it!

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@moonbeeaam

5 months

on twitter you can have multiple degrees in philosophy and if you ask for reading recommendations on something, you’ll get someone in your replies like “have you heard of plato?”

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@moonbeeaam

3 months

when Rilke said that he found loving “as a male” to be inhuman, wild, and malicious, and when he said that within men there is a kind of motherhood … i wonder what this could have meant …

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@moonbeeaam

2 months

Verso Books is a CIA project to destabilise the left by making all their books fall apart

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Classic verso binding

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@moonbeeaam

7 months

four philosophy books i want to read this year

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@clar_rah

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Four philosophy books I wanna read this year! Hopefully I will read more than 4

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I love this anecdote from Iris Murdoch’s school years

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i’ve only read some Arendt. i think it was good but not perfect, & obviously her racism was a huge flaw that we shouldn’t ignore. But i can’t help but notice how people reserve such extreme vitriol for her that they don’t show for other philosophers: nazis, slaveowners, etc

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2 months

i don’t see the appeal of houellebecq. if i wanted to read a frustrated man going on a misogynistic or islamophobic rant i’d read the news

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@moonbeeaam

5 months

i wrote a short essay about what it means for philosophy to be a profession, about pretending to know less about each other than we really do, and about the rule of not treating fictional characters as if they're real people. Link in bio! <3

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One of my teachers told a story: when he mentioned one of Kierkegaard’s books, someone said “Isn’t that book really just about Kierkegaard’s affair with Regine Olsen?” And my teacher replied, “why ‘just’”? — In this reply there is a good rule for interpretation, I think

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4 months

I don’t think that is what he does at all

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4 months

in both the Tractatus and the Investigations, Wittgenstein makes philosophy of language first philosophy (as opposed to metaphysics, epistemology, or ethics). What do you think? #wittgenstein #philosophy

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i don’t get Harold Bloom…marketed as this renegade defender of educated, impassioned interpretation, but then i read his books & the majority of them are very dull, with his only technique being comparison. “Crane was like Eliot and Stevens with Whitmanian aspiration.” booring!!

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@moonbeeaam

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i’ve been accepted to do a PhD and now I’m applying for funding, but the whole process is so dispiriting that I don’t know if I even want it anymore… Academia just feels like dry admin work. But I struggle to think of places in the world I could feel happy …

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@moonbeeaam

2 years

i found a george steiner book signed by stuart hall

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@moonbeeaam

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concerned with some problem or another, but after a while you realise that they never address the problem; they just show how to express that problem using certain predetermined concepts and phrases. Very little thinking is actually involved. This is why I think Freud is much 2/3

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@moonbeeaam

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Which authors are renowned for long sentences? I can think of Proust and Henry James but I’d like to know more. (And I guess I’m not thinking of books that are just one sentence, like Ducks, Newburyport)

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@moonbeeaam

5 months

today i found a book signed by CLR James

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@moonbeeaam

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i found a george steiner book signed by stuart hall

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2 months

i usually associate ‘critical theory’ with the frankfurt school and their collaborators, but judging by the replies to this tweet, to most people it means left wing political philosophy and its influences, which is much broader

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if you were to assign five must-read texts to first year grad students entering a critical theory program, what would they be? and why? (even hearing singular texts would be helpful!)

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Control-F’ing Marx’s complete works for the word “Christmas” so i know what my opinion should be

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@moonbeeaam

4 months

better at actually understanding human life, and also why I think (perhaps against freud) that psychoanalysis is much better off when it doesn’t feel the need to be a doctrine, i.e. a catalogue of concepts. So much lacanian writing is proof of how insular a doctrine can be. 3/3

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@moonbeeaam

7 months

Most of Benjamin’s writings, like Benjamin as a person, aren’t finished products but attempts at figuring something out. And ofc this fragmentary quality is not just part of the form of his work, but an aspect of the worldview that it expresses

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@moonbeeaam

10 months

I don’t like Deleuze’s definition of philosophy as the creation of concepts. lots of lacklustre work is written because people think their thought process needs to result in the coining of a concept. But giving an account of something doesn’t have to amount to giving it a name

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@moonbeeaam

2 months

the fallen coconut unburdened by the context of all in which it lives

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When did Kamala Harris become a continental philosopher? Like "the great significance of the passage of time" etc.

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the more distant someone’s form of life seems from mine, the more astounding it is that we share the same feelings and curiosities about the world: this is why i often love medieval and ancient art

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Gender Trouble is so often misunderstood (and sometimes intentionally) that its mainstream reputation doesn’t even get close at representing how good it is. One of the best feminist philosophy texts of all

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university deadlines gave me the habit of only reading selectively from philosophy books, but since graduating i’ve been reading them from start to end again, and it’s so much more rewarding

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3 years

i have a philosophy degree now ☺️

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1 year

Which writer from before Freud is most important to psychoanalysis?

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5 months

academic publishing encourages specificity and having a very narrow scope, which helps you avoid being criticised or (god forbid!) being wrong, but also prevents you from saying anything about anything

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@christapeterso

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Analytic philosophy is so funny because it essentially produces nothing but strange and revisionary views on every topic it approaches and no one is like “ok big picture. What is happening here” (it’s a degenerating research program)

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sometimes i think that philosophers can overstate the political power of philosophy in order to excuse themselves from engaging in real political action

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maybe i’ve misunderstood it, but i find this picture so anti-intellectual. really we ought to be trying to understand ourselves

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6 months

@roryisconfused i saw so many people saying this kind of thing about that video. i don’t think that mother should have filmed it and put it online, but that doesn’t legitimise these basically fascist opinions on disabled people

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@moonbeeaam

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i know this is sacrilegious or whatever, but for me there is a huge gap between the good parts in proust and the boring parts. Sometimes it is the best thing i’ve ever read and sometimes it is 60 pages that i find incredibly dull

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@Construct175162 hegel thinks that the things we often attribute to minds — meaning, intention, identity, the ability to value things — actually emerge in the interactions between people. in some sense you are not even a full person outside of your relations to others

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@moonbeeaam

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on the rare occasions where i’m in an all-women group of philosophers, it really reminds me just how much the atmosphere of philosophy discussions is affected (for the worse) by being dominated by men

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1 year

@AmcCritique What’s the problem? research like this is interesting to some people, and it doesn’t get in the way of people doing any other kind of research on kant

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this is how people imagine philosophy departments to be

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@moonbeeaam

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philo only works when it responds to real concerns in life. we all have philosphical thoughts (on god, death, money, love, etc), but we’re not always worried about them being true. you have to make someone worried about truth. more than any theory, you have to give them a feeling

Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

3 months

How do we reach students about the value of philosophy (no matter its tradition) and that it;s worth their time when so much of the reasoning ab this challenge rubs up against the idea that university education is about job training & credentialing? Any ideas beyond platitudes?

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Is it really all just a panic of not knowing what to do until you die?

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when your country's philosophical heritage is so bad that you have to steal from Austria

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When I look back, my life seems to me to have lengthened by so many more years than have actually passed. And yet I have not become older, not more adept at daily life and certainly not more proficient. I am still in the kindergarten of life and find it difficult. - Rilke, 1903

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