@saga1894.bsky.social Hello Sascha! Hope your PhD thesis is going well. Lately on twitter, I got in touch with Ian Wright who also has been working on the transformation problem. To my understanding, he developed a "dynamic" approach. Here are some of his works: ianwrightsite.wordpress.com

As a Marxist, I get the same thing over and over: "Marx is an old thinker from the late 1800s, world has changed." Well, wish everything could change, such as the same criticism which is "Marx is an old thinker from the late 1800s, etc. etc."

There are many answers to the question, "What is philosophy?" Reading Hegel, one might say that Hegel's answer would be: "To see the world in a completely different and previously undiscovered light." Thus, the question can be transformed into the question, "What is the purpose of philosophy?"

Hegel's analysis of means in the Science of Logic demands that we see the world as a "becoming." This Heraclitean philosophy was inherited by Marx, who showed us that capital as a "becoming" takes various forms: money, commodities, etc.

The more I read Schelling, the more I feel sympathy for him. Reasons for that will unfold themselves in time but right now it's not clear even to myself.

My review for Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Representation" published today.

RIP Jonathan Lear. Back in the 2000s, I reviewed his book "Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life".

My current aim is to integrate the sections on Spirit in the 'Phenomenology' with the 'System of Ethical Life' and the other Jena Discourses (1805-6).

I've been making rather slow progress lately. Over the summer, I wrote a section of about 20 pages that illuminated Hegel's theoretical relationship with Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.

Hegel had not yet explained what he meant by "situation." Parsons adopted the term from William Isaac Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, but he completely changed its meaning. I will not discuss these in the "Hegel" book, as I do not want to confuse readers unfamiliar with sociology.

At this stage of reading Hegel, I do surprisingly see the basic elements of modern sociology in 'Phenomenology', what Talcott Parsons called "frame of reference": Situation, end, means.

Happy birthday to the great thinker, sociologist and economist, Karl Marx!

“Piero and Me.” I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...

Hegel's tutor G. C. Storr observed Kant's impact on religion. This impact was internalized by Hegel since for him, the true root of faith lies in rational and moral acceptance and not in the fear of hell.

Based on what Antonio Negri says, the disobedience to authority is not only a right, but it's a natural and healthy act.

Reading Hegel's texts on Christianity recently. He never pays attention to the miracles of Jesus or he mentions them on purpose because what Hegel believes is the end of Jesus was to build a religion which is rationally grounded. This interpretation owes a lot to Kant's writings on religion.

Recently reading Hegel's early writings. Like Lukács, I do hesitate to categorize them as "theological" because they are more about the theologians' effect on people's belief than the core structure of the religion itself. Also the undeniable impact of Kant can be clearly observed.

Lately I've been busy with "phenomenology" again but a different one other than Hegel's. This time reading Schutz's sociology based mostly on Weber and on Husserl. Been working on an article about Schutz for a philosophy journal. When finished, will return to working on my Hegel book.

Lately over 200 new followers. Everyone is welcomed but selective follow-back became problematic for me. If being mutuals is desired please introduce yourselves.

I have a song from the 90s for Elon Musk: "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it"

@saga1894.bsky.social Hello Sascha! You chose a very interesting topic to work on. For your thesis, I presume? I've published an essay on the matter back in 2011 but in Turkish. If you say you can use Google translator, I may send it to you.

According to Cioran, when we write a thought down, that thought loses its importance and impact. Writing down offers a Rilkean healing for the soul and mind but the time itself diminishes the impact of a thought, not writing. Even if I keep it to myself, time might negate it with new thoughts.

As Pinkard puts it, Hegel felt uneasy with the interpreters or the so-called followers of Schelling.

Taking notes is over. 28 pages of hand-written notes on Hegel, in the end, encouraged me to write a book on Hegel and yesterday I already wrote two pages.

Capital wants to keep the value of labor power as low as possible by reducing the material standard of living of the laborer to a bare minimum. Individual capitalists drive down the wages of their own employees but look to their rivals to raise wages to increase consumption capacity in the market.

46? Almost there! And I don't believe the "discontents of civilization" could be solved in a 45 minute therapy. Most of our individual issues are in fact collective issues and therapy doesn't help you in seeing this fact.

According to Marx and Engels, the "mystification" of Hegel's philosophy is to serve the purpose to maintain the status quo.

The "ingenious" critics of Marx always say that Marx had neglected the "demand" side of economics - as if there could be independent consumption patterns under capitalism.

Israel massacred five journalists in Gaza, burning them alive. This on the same day that reports emerge of Palestinian babies freezing to death in the displacement camps. Every day this regime charts new depths of barbarism.

Also it must be understood that controlling production also means controlling consumption with the help of fashion trends, social media, continuous advertisement etc. to guarantee production and thus surplus.

Me while reading Hegel. The times that I finally fully grasp the meaning of a part in Phenomenology, I lose that sweet feeling and I ask for more from Hegel, thankfully, Hegel comes back in a more challenging fashion each time.

“I really like things I don’t understand: when I read a thing I don’t understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.” — Clarice Lispector (A Breath of Life)

Greatest Films of All-Time - A daily thread 🎞️ [1] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)

Made this short clip from Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's 'Kino Eye' (1924) for an instrumental I wrote. Hope you enjoy it. Mr. Dude_o_o - "Metamorphosis" (Dziga Vertov / Kino Eye) youtu.be/6AtMTpnJsfY?... via @YouTube

The more I read Schelling, the more I feel sympathy for him. Reasons for that will unfold themselves in time but right now it's not clear even to myself.

I am so happy to share this essay by yours truly! If you’re interested in my work on space, here it finally is in a condensed medium. In this text, I develop a theory of *historical spatiality* — an escape from relativism that can render history objective. 🚀 www.royst.no/post/quiltin...

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Even though Hegel was angry at science for simplifying the world, his fictional philosophy is reminiscent of the fictions in Ramsey and Solow's economic growth models. But there is a history in Hegel's texts. On the contrary, growth models are almost like a depiction of a continuous heaven.

I blocked Elon Musk on Twitter. Then he changed the settings so that a blocked person can still see your tweets. And now he is asking for more. Anything "X" related from now on gets an "X" from me.

I feel proud of being fan of Erasure and Depeche Mode since they made songs about working class - such as Erasure's "The Circus" and Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts". Also always suspected that Martin L. Gore read some Hegel when he wrote "Master and Servant" for Depeche Mode.

I will soon read Fichte and evaluate his philosophy for myself. Even great philosophers can make the mistake of simplifying a system of thought while criticizing it.

According to Hegel, Fichte's ego is constantly in an adversarial relationship with the non-ego. Hegel treats this primitive form of relationship as a historical stage in the chapter titled "Self-Consciousness". The chapter on "Reason" deals with a stage that leaves this stage behind.

Economics is popular for abstraction. Whitehead's "fallacy of misplaced concreteness" was a warning for not taking a part of reality as the whole of this reality. But in economics this warning has been forgotten.