Zena Hitz @zenahitz Twitter profile

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Zena Hitz

2 months

I am astonished, grateful, and proud that last year, LOST IN THOUGHT surpassed 25,000 copies in cumulative total sales @PrincetonUPress ! (1/x)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 month

This is what human flourishing looks like

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My daily math grind after work. No matter how tired I am, I always manage to do some math. Even if it's just one good exercise.

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Zena Hitz

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Common mistake: People think that the great books are packed with familiar cliches, whereas the great books are always startling, whether it's startling familiarity or startling weirdness.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Today's hot take: The problem in academia is not wokeness or anti-wokeness; it is love of conformity and fear of any kind of disagreement, difference, or invention.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

Sorry. Despite the long-term toxicity of smoking, it is love of life that drives people to it, looking at the sky and trees, making friends, conversations not driven by agendas

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@getfiscal

1 year

Why not fix the conditions that are driving young people to smoke? Build a society where they see the point in living?

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Proud to announce a new endeavor in adult education: The Catherine Project. We offer Oxford-style tutorials, on great books and fundamental questions; on related skills (writing, dead languages ...) & peer-led reading groups. No credits, no degrees, no grades, no fixed tuition.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

I only want one thing— the same thing every woman wants — to know whether the laws of nature are a priori synthetic.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

I think the WVU situation is actually much more serious than we think. I would like to articulate this, because (as others say) it is of national and international import, bearing on upcoming changes at Florida by @BenSasse and in the UK. (1/x)

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@NYMag

1 year

Proposed cuts at West Virginia University may portend a dark future for higher education everywhere.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

NEW IN PAPERBACK: My book, LOST IN THOUGHT, defends the idea of learning for its own sake through examples from fiction, film, biography, history and philosophy. Reviews, podcasts and lectures are HERE:

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

11 months

25 books that should be on every school curriculum: 1. Ptolemy, Almagest 2. Plato, Timaeus 3. Aristotle, Physics 4. Apollonius of Perga, Conic Sections 5. Pascal, mathematical works 6. Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry 7. Harvey, On theCirculation of the Blood 8. Newton, Princi

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

This meme would be perfect if you switched the direction

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️

@Nnedi

3 years

This meme…is so problematic, 🤣

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

This is very poor history. The great books movement was a movement for inclusion, not exclusion. It began in the labor movement. Doesn't take much work to figure that out.

sententiae antiquae

@sentantiq

3 years

ugh. great books courses are not the humanities and humanities are not great books great books courses were introduced into US higher ed bc of anxiety about non elites and non whites getting educated they were intended as a tool of 'integration' = eurocentrism = white supremacy

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Guys guys there's a huge problem: all over the world people are developing "best practices" without knowing the Form of the Good.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

I don't know how I'll get over this tweet! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

MC HAMMER e/acc

@MCHammer

4 years

We did it @zenahitz !!!! Great conversation WE love you and your Book !!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

2 months

let's keep the pressure on the candidates until a baby is worth more than a Tesla

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@markmobility

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Wait. A $7,500 tax credit for buying a Tesla is capitalism but a $6,000 tax credit for a newborn child is communism?

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 months

No, neither students or any other human being can "grasp" the great books at 100 pages per week. Nor at 1 page a week. Great books invite a lifetime of study. (1/x)

Christian Warner

@Warner1776

3 months

For what it’s worth, I don’t think students—unless they are geniuses—can really grasp the great books at a rate of 100 pages per week. I’d a rather a student have genuine understanding of the first book of Aristotle’s Ethics than a cursory understanding of all his works combined.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

St. Teresa of Avila's beautiful cell:

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

2 years

My new book is out! A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. What do faith, suffering and happiness have to do with one another? Priced for voluntary poverty!

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

At @stjohnscollege , ancient Greek is required for all students. That isn’t because we expect proficiency (which you could better get elsewhere), but because we know that relying on translations without knowing what a translation is or how it works is deeply misleading.

Tommy Collison

@tommycollison

3 years

Big news in classics this weekend: Princeton removed the Greek & Latin requirement for classics majors. (I don't know enough about classics pedagogy to say if it's good or bad, although it should be noted that I haven't a lick of either Latin or Greek.)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

The unspoken, unrealized factor here is the complete collapse of the appeal of K-12 teaching for anyone intelligent and caring. A vast field for caring, bookish people has collapsed, and nothing can replace it.

Sam Haselby

@samhaselby

1 year

Given the reality of the jobs market, the truth is that a large majority of humanities PhD students will be significantly better off, materially and emotionally, doing something else. Non-profits. Start a business. Finance hires PhDs sometimes. And there are more options.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

9 months

It was never about "the humanities". The conventional powers that be have made themselves enemies of learning, full stop.

Dr. Natalie Hinkel

@natalie_hinkel

9 months

The University of North Carolina Greensboro has dissolved the Physics & Astronomy department. A major pillar of science education at that university is gone. I have no words. My heart goes out to my friends and colleagues.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

20 days

This is a catastrophe. Ban the phones, assign long, good books.

Yoni Appelbaum

@YAppelbaum

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1. Large numbers of students are arriving at highly selective universities unprepared to read a book cover-to-cover—because no teacher has ever asked them to before, reports @rosehorowitch

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

7 months

In my life as a professional philosopher I have been regularly exposed to brilliant successful people whose views are easily as insane or more so than that saints could fly.

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@timcrane102

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Yale University Press has published a 492 page book apparently defending the claim that Christian saints actually ‘flew’ or levitated

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

At 5000 followers I will enter the Culture Wars ... and win.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

I've read that anti-Plato ad and I can tell you: We will fight. And we will win.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

6 months

What if I told you that I have CONVERSATIONS with these guys ALL THE TIME?? and that I have them WITH MY MIND?

Peter H. Diamandis, MD

@PeterDiamandis

6 months

Soon, students will have CONVERSATIONS with Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato rather than just reading about them. This is how AI is REVOLUTIONIZING education.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

2 years

Brideshead Revisited is a novel about how even college students who party too much and don’t take their studies seriously are offered the grace of salvation.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

2 years

St Therese playing Joan of Arc in a convent production. Happy feast day!

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

11 months

Your regular reminder that great books are super interesting to all sorts of people and in ways one might not expect.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

My new book, LOST IN THOUGHT, defends the value of learning for its own sake, by means of examples from history, literature, philosophy, biography, and film. Reviews, interviews, podcasts, and related essays HERE:

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

2 years

Can we please invent a new closing, I hate all of these

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@ImKaitlynMeyers

2 years

How do you end your emails?

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

If a flagship does not teach foreign languages or allow higher study in mathematics, those disciplines die in that state. They die all the way down, not just for a few individuals. They die and are severely weakened at every level, relying on imported oxygen. (4/x)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

11 months

I agree that we (usually) teach the humanities badly. But @mattyglesias claimed that teaching them successfully required civilizational jingoism. It does not. It requires just two things: *intellectual zeal* and *small classes*.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

11 months

I will never cease being amazed by how many people in my profession are resistant to even *considering* the idea that maybe the version of the humanities we’re offering is not an especially compelling one, and that this has some role to play, however minor, in our problems.

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@zenahitz

11 months

The idea that great books are elitist is an idea's idea. It dissolves on the slightest contact with reality.

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11 months

Nobody in my gen who grew up in late socialism in the 70s, '80s believed that classics were for the rich. Never crossed our minds. Everybody got to read them. A friend electrician with the 3 years of high school read Magic Mountain during breaks.

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Zena Hitz

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3 years

Gothic art can be so tender

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3 years

One of my favorite almost-Epiphany images, from a carving at the Cathedral in Autun, France. The angel wakes the magi to alert them of the star.

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1 year

Where will WV teachers learn these things? The point of a flagship state university is to provide intellectual resources for *the state*. That isn't just a bunch of liberal arts majors. It's absolutely everyone downstream. (3/x)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 months

Tenure isn't about free speech. It's about self-governance: where the standards for success are set by people who live and understand the relevant kind of success.

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@jenniferdoleac

3 months

This week I found myself advocating for abolishing tenure at universities. Since giving up tenure myself (and seeing how the private sector operates) I’ve become confident that experimenting with (higher paid) merit-based contracts would be a smart move for universities that want

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 months

My first year teaching at St John's we read Plato's Republic. I'd written a masters thesis, several seminar papers, dissertation chapter, & a long scholarly article on the Republic. The freshmen helped me to see things I'd never seen before.

Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 months

No, neither students or any other human being can "grasp" the great books at 100 pages per week. Nor at 1 page a week. Great books invite a lifetime of study. (1/x)

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Zena Hitz

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4 years

Obviously I'm extremely excited about this! Completely over the moon in fact!

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

The risk of being crushed in the moveable stacks is just part of the glorious reckless adventure of the life of the mind.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

5 years

Look what came in the mail yesterday!!!

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

@lastpositivist Job: God, you are very big, and I don’t understand you. God: Yes that’s right, I’m very big and you don’t understand me. Job: Thank you! God: Here’s your stuff back.

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Zena Hitz

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1 year

University administrators are obsessed with revenue generation. Why? Because they're spending too much outside of their core mission and what is necessary to support it. (18/x)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Your regular reminder that The Lives of Others and Children of Men are the greatest and most insightful movies of the last twenty years.

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Zena Hitz

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1 year

Let's be clear: There's no reason for this. I don't need to look at the WVU budget to know that that 45 million deficit comes from abandoning core mission for superfluous management and marketing, on top of consulting fees. I know that because it is true EVERYWHERE. (14/x)

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@zenahitz

2 months

Thomists

Rota

@pli_cachete

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There’s gotta be a good word for people who are chronically addicted to nuance

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1 year

In June 2020, unbelievably three years ago, I founded @CatherineProj in order to spread serious learning abroad as quickly and simply as possible. I thought it might be good to post an update.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

this is wise and good and the young people should be praised, not dunked on

New York Post

@nypost

1 year

‘Silent Walking’ trend has Gen Zers leaving iPhones at home to go for walks

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1 year

State universities have a duty that private universities do not, to train for local industries like agriculture or engineering. Even die-hard liberal arts warriors like myself know this. (5/x).

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@zenahitz

2 months

Oh my gosh. I love Nick Cave. "Hopefulness is not neutral. It is hard won adversarial position, found through devastation."

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@jennfrey

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You've got to keep the Devil way down in the hole.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

I beg to differ. You want to be happy? Major in philosophy.

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@CharacterGap

4 years

Want a good job? Major in philosophy.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Still worked up about this. Philosophers, stop writing "Introduction to..." and "Companion to..." books. You're telling young people (and others) that serious reading is not for them, but only for special experts.

Kevin J.S. Zollman

@KevinZollman

4 years

@zenahitz I'm not saying never read primary sources. But don't always point people to them initially. Sending people to read Kant (or almost any primary source) right off the bat is likely to scare them away and not help them to understand what we do.

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5 months

I'll be honest, to me "overpopulation" is as clear a dog-whistle as it gets.

Wisdom of Crowds

@WCrowdsLive

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Martha Nussbaum and @shadihamid debate whether human overpopulation 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦or underpopulation 🚶‍♂️ will be the most important challenge of the future. Listen to the whole thing here 👉

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@zenahitz

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The point of a great books program is not to absorb a bunch of "facts", "ideas", or watered-down scholarship. It is to invite everyone into the life of the mind (3/x)

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1 year

If you say, as Gee, WV legislators, and enablers are saying, "WV doesn't need higher math, literature, or languages", you are saying that human beings in general don't need these subjects. You are a voice for their eradication. (9/x)

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1 year

I continue to see and hear terrible higher ed news, but I am persuaded that there are only two solutions to all of our woes: 1. Intellectual zeal. Without it, nothing works. That's what holds us together. 2. Love your neighbor as yourself. Build real communities.

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@zenahitz

1 year

It's the feast day of Teresa of Ávila. Here is her cell. St. Teresa, pray for us.

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@zenahitz

3 months

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that yes, it is in fact better to be a "half-educated dilletante" than a completely ignorant drone, selling your attention at any moment to whatever is shiniest.

cb

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@zenahitz @jennfrey @stjohnscollege @CatherineProj I would dispute that the contemplative life is for everyone. The ancients and midievals were very serious about gatekeeping philosophy. Better to be completely ignorant than a half-educated dilettante.

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You, a college 1st year: "OMG I can't understand Aristotle's Metaphysics!" Me, after 20 yrs of Aristotle study: "OMG I can't understand Aristotle's Metaphysics!" Conclusion: Why does anyone read this stuff? Alternative: Difficulties in understanding don't preclude learning.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

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This joke is going around because people aren't thinking of the incredible, tree-breakingly powerful poet Milton.

Good Tweetman

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We really need to rethink hurricane names, obviously Hurricane Milton is serious, but, subconsciously, l am just naturally not going to take something named "Milton" as a threat.

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@zenahitz

2 years

The other day one of my students described Socrates as making the cringe argument appear based and I

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@zenahitz

2 years

The idea that Homer was a "hero-worshipper" is one of those ideas that dissolves instantly upon actually opening one of the books and putting ones eyes on the page, in the fashion of reading.

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@zenahitz

4 years

Say what you want about Twitter, I keep having super deep conversations and meeting all kinds of amazing people.

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@zenahitz

1 year

We have, yes.

florence ☧

@morallawwithin

1 year

have the Great Books people figured out what the greatest book is?

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3 months

The humanities are almost dead, thanks to this half-baked garbage about them presenting a body of knowledge rather than the approach to and the material for a thousand lifetimes of inquiry punctuated by real, spontaneous insight. (5/x)

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@zenahitz

11 months

I am praying this Advent that this man repents and converts to the Gospel. And that he finds a girlfriend.

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@zenahitz

3 years

I find it weird that the Minotaur here looks so cute, fluffy, and frightened.

Archaeology & Art

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Theseus stalks the Minotaur inside the labyrinth. Artist:Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

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@zenahitz

1 year

Wake up, university officers. Break out of your little bubble. Spend the money you would spend on consultants on real conversations with real people who work on the ground, bringing the core mission of your university to life. (20/x)

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@zenahitz

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No.

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@zenahitz

3 months

Strange coincidence! As universities have become less faculty-governed and more administrated, university education is more and more judged a waste of time and money. 1/x)

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@Scholars_Stage

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@zenahitz Why should the great masses, unable by your own standards to judge the output of such a person, be inspired to fund such a life? This is an argument for parasitism of the most base and irresponsible sort.

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@zenahitz

4 years

My new book, LOST IN THOUGHT, defends the idea of learning for its own sake through examples from fiction, film, biography, history and philosophy. Reviews, podcasts and lectures are HERE:

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4 months

I will not like it.

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@sama

4 months

very happy to be partnering with apple to integrate chatgpt into their devices later this year! think you will really like it.

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A huge THANK YOU to this extraordinary and generous human being, for hosting such a wild and fascinating conversation! 🦉🦉🐛🐛🪱🦠🦠🦠

MC HAMMER e/acc

@MCHammer

4 years

We did it @zenahitz !!!! Great conversation WE love you and your Book !!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

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We talk too much about the Nazis and not enough about the English.

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4 years

Iggy Pop on Gibbon!!!!

Mary Harrington

@moveincircles

4 years

Iggy Pop on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall is the most poignant thing I’ve read all week.

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"Bless you, study elsewhere", Gee says. That's saying (1) West Virginians need to leave the state to learn what educated people have learned for all generations. (11/x)

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@zenahitz

1 year

I thank David for articulating my worst nightmare so clearly.

David Frum

@davidfrum

1 year

Not that you asked for it, but my 2 cents on how to fix *both* college admissions *and* student loan problem. Probably a lot wrong with my idea, but file it under "just so crazy it might work." 1/x

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So while I find it sad and undesirable for non-flagship state universities to focus elsewhere, I don't think it is necessarily a catastrophe. But a flagship? It is a catastrophe for the whole state. (6/x)

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First in-person class in a year! IN A TENT! Reading Keats w seniors! Then I chit-chatted with some colleagues I happened to run into! Best day EVER!

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The truth is that LOST IN THOUGHT is heading into its second book-birthday and I've had a rough few months. If you feel so moved, cheer me up by saying what you liked about it!

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@zenahitz

1 year

The world needs people who preserve texts and work on old books. We have not begun to imagine what a world will look like without departments like this.

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@zenahitz

11 months

Since this fellow here is a high-follow account, I feel obligated to say that this is complete and absolute bullshit. Come on guys (I know you are guys)! Keep bullshit out of your feed. At first it's messy and smelly, then it's poison.

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@zenahitz

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Seeing Mary's argument getting pushback warms my heart. Ten years ago, her view was conventional wisdom. The conversation has shifted -- tbf, at least from the bubble of my own TL ...)

mary beard

@wmarybeard

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If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are no right answers. Do we need the humanities? Let’s hear it for yes!!!

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I teach the Bible regularly to mixed groups of religious and secular students. Such teaching is the pinnacle of life. Don't be scared -- try it!

Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

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the Bible is an astonishing book. I think it is rarely read, and most teachers and administrators don't want to handle the tensions it causes.

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@zenahitz

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Seems worth reminding folks that there was a great study that showed that high scores on course evaluations was *inversely* related with how much learning took place!

Jennifer A. Frey

@jennfrey

11 months

The first advice given to me as a post doc at UChicago was to stop giving out C's if I wanted my evaluations to improve. So I listened to my superiors and gave nothing lower than a B.

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@zenahitz

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Love your neighbor as yourself. Also love your enemies.

Populism Updates

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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

Perhaps worth posting a reminder that I am beginning a new endeavor in adult education called The Catherine Project. No degrees, no credits, no grades, no fixed tuition, free will donation. Come read some primary texts with us! DM me your email address to get on mail list.

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@zenahitz

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All hands on deck. What is happening in West Virginia is a catastrophe. When a town burns down or is destroyed by flooding we can rebuild. But how will we rebuild literature, mathematics, history, and philosophy? How will we even know that they need to be rebuilt? (23/x)

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@zenahitz

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I first read Harry's work when I first arrived in Princeton. It showed me how academic philosophy might be combined with everyday reflection on human beings and how they tick. I began to imitate him in this and other ways...

Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94 (Published 2023)

He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

At 10K followers I will heal the divide between analytic and continental philosophers.

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

3 years

I see philosophy twitter's fragile peace between analytic and continental philosophers is now broken. Each side should pick a champion and have them write polemics against the other because so far it's a 1-1 draw. Carnap beat Heidegger, but Derrida beat Searle. Let's settle this.

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

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A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT RELIGIOUS LIFE: Available now for pre-order. Priced for voluntary poverty!

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life|Paperback

What is happiness? Does life have a meaning? If so, is that meaning available in an ordinary life? The philosopher Zena Hitz confronted these questions head-on when she spent several years living in...

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@zenahitz

1 year

I wish someone would write about the shutting off of both sports and museums to anyone below upper-middle class. One of the major signs to me that I have lived through an enormous political and social decline.

Zito

@_Zeets

1 year

I’m sorry, I will always think that sports should be affordable and that people shouldn’t have to spend more than most Americans can comfortably cover in an emergency to see a game. You just can’t champion the principle of universality in sports and then make them that expensive.

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@zenahitz

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For a poor, rural state, it is a catastrophe that will hit people who are already struggling, where we should be directing *more* resources, not less. I don't live in WV and I don't know their schools. But I know that their schools are struggling. (7/x)

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

4 years

A few final (I hope) thoughts on the Battle of the Books. Some of my basic assumptions have been obscured in the heat of battle. I'd like to try to lay them out. First of all, philosophy is a skill, not content. Ideas invite one to exercise the skill, but aren't the end. 1/x

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@zenahitz

3 years

Thrilled to announce that LOST IN THOUGHT will be translated into Arabic!

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@zenahitz

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"God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. ..

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Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

3 years

I am delighted to announce that LOST IN THOUGHT will be translated into Spanish! Me alegra anunciar que LOST IN THOUGHT se traducirá al español!

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@zenahitz

1 year

I know the OP is a parody, but I've never expressed my love of smoking so beautifully, so I'm leaving it up

Zena Hitz

@zenahitz

1 year

Sorry. Despite the long-term toxicity of smoking, it is love of life that drives people to it, looking at the sky and trees, making friends, conversations not driven by agendas

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@zenahitz

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Once I went into the Shrine Basilica in DC for daily mass and found a copy of Aristotle's Metaphysics instead of a hymnal.

David Schloss

@Schloss6David

1 year

@zenahitz Or Aristotle’s metaphysics?

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