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I have an essay called "Kierkegaardian Individualism and the Political" in the new issue of Politics and Poetics ⬇️
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Matt Dinan
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Matt Dinan
@second_sailing
dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")
Fredericton, NB Katılım Haziran 2009
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“You want the best, and the best is the original text”
mansfield book club@contrapolisci
Wanting to learn to read like a Straussian? Skip AI, read Great Books.
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@WB_Baskerville I saw this earlier and thought exactly what you tweeted
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@moriah_bridges One of my classes just finished The Brothers K (although Capital is a slog!)
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@second_sailing We read significantly more than this in my undergrad courses
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This is a perfectly reasonable amount of reading?
Matthew Noah Smith@MattNoahSmith
Syllabus for Michael Hardt’s 1999 seminar on Capital. He took a call from Antonio Negri in the middle of a class once.
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The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment, which is the better read?
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I always have a great time at conferences because I go with my friends
(have fun at ACTC without me this week, gang)
Maddie Lee, PhD@m_janelee
academic conferences are crazy because it’s like Let’s go to the most beautiful place in the world and then look at powerpoints for 12 straight hours
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I finished The Brothers Karamazov and now I’m depressed (that it’s over)
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Was this paper written by….all parents of teenagers?
John@ErrorTheorist
Here’s a paper arguing that getting tattoos can be immoral. The author argues that altering your body in this way can violate duties you have to your future self.
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What chatgpt has revealed is that a surprising large number of people want to be “seen” as intelligent, profound or insightful. Many more people than you’d assume. But they profoundly resent intellectual work or reading or study or, say, literally anything you do to get smarter
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@PhiloCasey it is a dark, untrustworthy idol, but sometimes there is no alternative for a weak man like me
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After my most recent back spasm* I've decided I am no longer going to sit unless totally necessary.
*I do all the PT exercises, lift weights, yoga, etc.
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@second_sailing not to be that guy but do you sit on only one-third of the seat with your butt sticking out?
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I am SCREAMING this at everyone at my institution
Michael S Roth@mroth78
Cal Newport:"Universities need to..portray themselves as citadels of concentration...Academic institutions need to demonstrate that the life of the mind is hard & worth it. We need to think about cognitive fitness the way we think about physical fitness." chronicle.com/article/is-ai-…
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@MatthewSitman My favourite RR fact is that he was in the teenaged geniuses class at Chicago with Allan Bloom, Seth Benardete, and Stanely Rosen
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All kinds of comments in response to this episode but not one of them has been about Richard Rorty being Walter Rauschenbusch’s grandson
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman
NEW @KnowYrEnemyPod for subscribers is out today! My great friend @SamAdlerBell and I discuss the Christian faith of James Talarico, religion & politics in a pluralistic society, "the Christian left," and more. Something to offend everyone in this episode, I'm sure! Link below:
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