#Arendt

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LadyMaimonides

Regard the @rudy_rochman Debate against Noam Chomsky: what it came down to was, what is the significance of semantics in political theory and discourse? 1st issue: Rhetoric -- we all

Samantha Rose Hill

Samantharhill

Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin action figures: Deleuze and Guatarri come together. Since each is several, it's a crowd. Nietzsche action figure. Karl Marx action figure. Susan Sontag action figure.

Dr. Jennifer Cassidy

OxfordDiplomat

Screenshot this quote/thread. Written about Fascism in 1930’s Europe, it is a view into the world today:In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would,

Peli Grietzer

peligrietzer

A thread (I'm sorry) about whether ethics, aesthetics, and politics are one thing or three things I believe that meaningful aesthetic conflict almost always encodes an ethical conflict, typically about

Luke Moffett

reparationsni

#TJ twitter peeps - what is the most accessible transitional justice book you would recommend to a student coming to the issue for the first time?I have so far:- Sands

Mohammed Girma

girma_mohammed

As violence & grievances, on the one hand, and ill-conceived triumphalism, on the other, denies reason of its discursive space, #Ethiopia needs multi-layered dialogue and healing more than ever. THREAD!

Amro Ali

_amroali

Since 2011, I’ve noticed anti-Semitic books, eg Protocols of the elders of Zion etc have greatly decreased in popularity among Cairo’s book sellers. This is not to mention anti-Jewish conspiracies

Laurence Phillips

HardyRoach

So there's this thread by a dude, talking about the fascists who stormed the capitol, and it's now bothering me so much that I need to break it down, tweet

Dr. Thomas Binder, MD

Thomas_Binder

After 70 years of imperial/neoliberal indoctrination the web of lies is so obviously absurde (9/11, Skripal, WH = ISIS, etc.), that it is dissoluting. The empathetic humanity connects, closes ranks

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

Arendt on totalitarian followers: They show "cynical or bored indifference in the face of death or other personal catastrophes" & turn to a "passionate inclination toward the most abstract notions

Philip Gorski

GorskiPhilip

1/ Was Nazism a leftist movement? Is fascism more generally a leftist ideology? Right-wing Americans often argue in the affirmative. I've already explained why I disagree. But since this claim

Richard Albert

RichardAlbert

Ten of the most important books in constitutionalism, as dogs. 1/10 | Carl Schmitt, Constitutional Theory (1928) 2/10 | Jon Elster, Ulysses Unbound (2000) 3/10 | Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

Silvia Poratelli

SPoratelli

A lot of open questions… (open thread) Why does a law against unsafe abortions eliminate from our Criminal Code the requirement that an abortion -in order to be legal- must

Kees van der Leun

Sustainable2050

Reading Twilight of Democracy by @anneapplebaum. Seems relevant these days. The worst kind of one-party state “invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies with those crackpots and fools

Janna

_bwabwa_

Philosophers if they were muppets, a thread I made so I wouldn’t have to think about it anymore: Machiavelli is Ernie John Locke is Hoots the Owl Karl Marx is

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

My appeal to all liberals: The RW fascists are NOT, repeat not , intellectually shallow as we think. Very few of them think, & to us they appear absurd, but

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