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  1. 📖 A revista #Cultura publicou um dossier temático coordenado por Joana Dias Pereira — "O 25 de Abril em 2024: perspetivas das Humanidades" —, que reúne diferentes olhares disciplinares e metodológicos.

    🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: revistas.fcsh.unl.pt/cultura/i

    #Histodons #25deAbril #50Anos25Abril #HistoryOfIdeas #PortugueseHistory

  2. Труды по археологии, истории и географии. Российская империя. Вторая половина XIX века. часть 3 #археология, #историяРоссии #география #история #Россия #19век #журналы #труды #20 век
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/21

    MATLAB & Simulink books
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/17

    _Украинский язык подборка словарей
    _українська мова збірка словників
    Ukrainian language Dictionary collection
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/16

    _Книги 18, 19, 20 века, изданные до 1917 года и имеют отношение к Украине
    _Books of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, published before 1917 and related to Ukraine
    _Книги 18, 19, 20 століття, видані до 1917 року і мають відношення до України
    #украина #Ukraine #україна
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/15

    Книги. Полиграфия, Переплетное дело, реставрация, редактирование, редактура и корректура.
    Поліграфія, палітурна справа та реставрація книг
    Printing, Bookbinding and book restoration
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/14

    #Anthropology #sociology #culture #linguistics #History #archaeology #Literature #Politics #economics #law #Theology, #philosophy #history of ideas
    #Anthropology #sociology #culture #linguistics #History #archaeology #Literature #Politics #economics #law #Theology, #philosophy #history of ideas
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/12

    John Wiley & Sons - подборка книг издательства
    John Wiley & Sons - a selection of books published by
    John Wiley & Sons-добірка книг видавництва
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/10

    Подборка книг по микроконтроллерам, ПЛИС, САПР, справочники
    #Цифроваяобработкасигналов, #теорияинформации #Микроконтроллеры, #компьютер, #роботы #Сеть. #Сетевыетехнологии #Электропитание, #сварка, #импульснаятехника #Автомобиль #САПР
    Добірка книг з мікроконтролерів, ПЛІС, САПР, довідники
    #САПР #Цифрова
    обробкасигналів #Теоріяінформації #мікроконтролери, #компютер, #роботи #Мережа #Мережевітехнології #електроживлення, #зварювання, #імпульснатехніка #автомобіль #САПР
    A selection of books on microcontrollers, FPGAs, CAD, reference books
    #Digital signal processing, #Information theory #Microcontrollers, #Computer, #robots #Network. #Network technologies #Power supply, #Welding, #Pulse technology #Car #CAD
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/9

    GeoChemistry, Field Engineering, Geology, GeoPhysics, Drilling, Hydrogeology, Electric Exploration, Digital Signal Processing, Seismology, Well logging Геохимия, Полевая инженерия, Геология, Геофизика, Бурение, Гидрогеология, Электроразведка, Цифровая Обработка сигналов, Сейсмология, Каротаж скважин Геохімія, Польова інженерія, Геологія, Геофізика, Буріння, Гідрогеологія, електророзвідка, Цифрова обробка сигналів, сейсмологія, Каротаж свердловин
    #GeoChemistry, #Field Engineering, #Geology, #GeoPhysics, #Drilling, #Hydrogeology, #Electric Exploration, #Digital Signal Processing, #Seismology, #Well logging #Геохимия, #Полеваяинженерия, #Геология, #Геофизика, #Бурение, #Гидрогеология, #Электроразведка, #ЦифроваяОбработкасигналов, #Сейсмология, #Каротажскважин #Геохімія, #Польоваінженерія, #Геологія, #Геофізика, #Буріння, #Гідрогеологія, #електророзвідка, #Цифроваобробкасигналів, #сейсмологія, #Каротажсвердловин
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/8

    Mobile library
    t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/7

    Кулинария, Кулінарія, Cuisine

    cooking recipes food national cuisine cuisine Russian cuisine Ukrainian cuisine ethnic cuisine fast food soups cocktails wine cheeses alcohol fish raw food diet vegetarian salads seafood Mediterranean cuisine lose weight healthy food potatoes vegetables fruits Vietnamese cuisine Georgian cuisine Caucasian cuisine Mexican cuisine Italian cuisine French cuisine Portuguese cuisine microwave
    кулинария рецепты еда национальная кухня русская кухня украинская кухня этническая кухня фастфуд супы коктейли вина сыры алкоголь рыба сыроедение вегитарианство салаты морепродукты средиземноморская кухня худеем здоровое питание

  3. Pyrrho of Elis: The Philosopher Who Found Peace in Doubt

    The Traveler Who Questioned Certainty Born around 360 BCE in Elis, Greece, Pyrrho stands as the founder of Ancient Skepticism, a radical philosophical tradition that challenges the very possibility of certain knowledge. His life took a dramatic turn when he accompanied Alexander the Great on his expedition to India. There, he encountered the gymnosophists ("naked wise men"), likely early Buddhist monks. This cross-cultural encounter profoundly transformed his thinking. He synthesized Eastern insights—particularly the Buddhist "Three Marks of Existence" (impermanence, suffering, and no-self)—with Greek philosophical rigor, creating a unique path focused not on discovering truth, but on suspending judgment to achieve peace.

    Radical Skepticism: "We Know Nothing" Pyrrho’s core assertion was startlingly simple yet devastatingly deep: "We are so constituted that we know nothing." He argued that our senses and opinions reveal neither objective truth nor definitive falsehood. For every argument, there is an equally convincing counter-argument (isosthenia). Whether discussing the nature of the gods, the existence of the self, or the principles of morality, human reason cannot definitively settle the question.

    This isn't cynicism or a claim that reality doesn't exist. It's a recognition of the gap between our experience and the world-in-itself. Because we cannot bridge this gap with absolute certainty, Pyrrho proposed a revolutionary response: Epoché—the disciplined suspension of judgment. Instead of committing to "this is true" or "that is false," the skeptic holds beliefs lightly, refusing to be dogmatic.

    Ataraxia: The Goal of Liberation Why suspend judgment? To achieve Ataraxia (tranquility, freedom from disturbance). Pyrrho observed that much of human suffering stems from the anxiety of needing to be right, the fear of being wrong, and the mental exhaustion of defending rigid certainties in an uncertain world.

    The Cure: By letting go of the need for absolute certainty, one frees oneself from the turbulence of dogmatic belief.
    Not Withdrawal: This is not nihilism or disengagement. Pyrrho lived a full civic life, served as a magistrate, and participated in society. He simply did so without the burden of claiming ultimate truth. He acted according to appearances, customs, and practical necessity, but without the psychological weight of dogma.
    Key Practices: A Way of Life Pyrrhonism is a practical philosophy of life, not just abstract theory. Its toolkit includes:

    Epoché: Suspending judgment on all matters, refusing to commit to any position as definitively true.
    Acatalepsy: Recognizing that certain knowledge is ultimately unattainable; we cannot "grasp" truth with absolute confidence.

    Aporia: Embracing puzzlement and doubt as natural, desirable states that keep inquiry alive, rather than problems to be solved.

    Adiaphora: Regarding things as indifferent—neither inherently good nor bad, true nor false—freeing ourselves from attachment to outcomes or beliefs.

    Legacy: From Antiquity to the Digital Age Though Pyrrho wrote nothing himself, his teachings were preserved by followers like Timon and later systematized by Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE). Pyrrhonism resurfaced powerfully during the Renaissance (influencing Montaigne) and the Enlightenment (shaping David Hume). Today, in an era of information overload, competing narratives, and polarized discourse, Pyrrho’s wisdom feels prophetic.

    Intellectual Humility: Holding beliefs lightly allows for genuine engagement across differences.
    Mental Tranquility: Accepting the limits of knowledge frees us from the anxiety of uncertainty.
    Critical Thinking: Rigorous examination of arguments without descending into cynicism or paralysis.
    Pyrrho offers a timeless guide: True wisdom lies not in having all the answers, but in being comfortable with the questions. In a world drowning in competing certainties, the peace found in doubt may be the most radical liberation of all.

    To listen to the lecture: https://tube.leshley.ca/w/pMo9s8kDutuD5dSL4awfpA

    #Philosophy #AncientGreece #HistoryOfIdeas #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #Wisdom #LifelongLearning #Epistemology
  4. The Necessary Art: Taking the Title Back

    Today I am publishing a book about a theft at the center of Western culture, one its victims were trained to take as a compliment:The Necessary Art: Aristotle's Six Elements in the Clinic, the Courtroom, the Proof, the Blueprint, and the Republic. It runs 342 pages in paperback, it exists in a Kindle edition and a free reading edition you can download right now, and the audiobook will follow as soon as the voice is ready. Those are the facts of the launch. What follows is the case for why this book exists, because its central fact has stood in plain sight for two hundred and eighty years while the people it names were trained to take the theft as a compliment: the professions of the working world were robbed of a word, the robbery has a date and a paper trail, and the word can be taken back. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/11/the-

  5. HEGEL'S SHADOW LOOMS, A CENTURY LATER

    Learn how Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 19th-century ideas on history and consciousness are still influencing modern thought and academic studies.

    #HegelPhilosophy, #ModernThought, #AcademicStudies, #HistoryOfIdeas, #Philosophy

    newsletter.tf/hegel-philosophy

  6. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  7. Top ten posts in February 2026 library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/04/t #abundance #Alchemy #AmbroseBierce #ancientPaganism #anthology #aries #austerelyRational #AustinOsmanSpare #behaviors #beliefs #bestPosts #bestTen #brain #ByzantineGreece #Camilla #Cassilda #christianCulture #christianity #civilians #classic #classicStudy #coherent #combined #cosmicFear #cosmology #culturalHistory #culture #DScottApel #daily #deeplyRooted #description #EPrime #earnestlyRomantic #earthEnergies #EasternEurope #EdwardianEngland #EightCircuitsOfTheBrainModel #emergence #esotericSymbols #esotericTraditions #Europe #farming #February2026 #fertility #folkMagic #forestDeities #FrancisYoung #gardening #GeneralSemantics #grimnessOfWar #grimoireTradition #hPLovecraft #habits #hideousPlay #historyOfIdeas #humanThought #humorous #improve #integrate #intellectualInterests #interconnectedNarratives #interpretations #JeremyHush #johnMichaelGreer #Journal #kabbalah #labyrinth #landSpirits #language #library #linguisticConventions #longAfterlife #magic #magicTexts #magicalStudies #magicalTexts #ManlyPHall #massMovement #mesmerizingSeries #middleAges #modernPaganism #monasticLife #monks #moonWork #mystical #mysticalExperiences #nature #natureBased #nonAristotelianLogic #nonEuclideanGeometries #NorthAmerica #notableHeights #occult #occultInterests #orthodoxWorldview #paganism #perception #personalAccount #philipKDick #plantMagic #practical #Practice #practices #preChristianReligion #prevailingView #prosePoems #quantumMechanics #RFaradayNelson #RainerMariaRilke #recurringCharacters #reiki #relativity #religiousInsiders #religiousStudies #remarkableCollection #RenaissanceFlorence #RevivedPaganisms #revolutionaryParis #revolutionized #richDiversity #ritual #robertAntonWilson #robertWChambers #RobinDouglas #STJoshi #ScienceFiction #shamanism #SophiePage #stridentlyNationalistic #struggles #study #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #survive #TaoistPrinciples #TheKingInYellow #thoughtPatterns #thoughts #ToddElliott #topPosts #topTen #traditions #universe #values #viewOfTheWorld #weatherMagic #weirdFiction #westernEsotericism #WesternEurope #world #yourself #ZaneAcord
  8. The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
    Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

    Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

    "Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

    The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

    Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

  9. My contribution interprets Foucault's recurrent post-1970 reflections on the appropriate method for analysing power relations on the basis of two archival documents: a reading note on Erich Ludendorff's 'Der totale Krieg' and a manuscript in which Foucault discusses his concept of 'governmentality'. I use the Ludendorff note to propose that his method for analysing power relations from the first half of the 1970s, whose basic assumption is that power relations are warlike in essence, may not immediately be derived from a reading of Nietzsche but from a projection of Ludendorff's ideas onto Nietzsche's work. The note on 'governmentality' is used to argue that despite a very significant post-1976 revision of his method for analysing power, Foucault retained the notion that politics is warfare, this time leaning on Carl Schmitt's political theory.

    I finished writing this article in early 2024. I am very glad that it has finally seen the light of day, and in such an overall impressive issue of Foucault Studies at that.

    muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/97

    #Foucault #power #war, #governmentality #Nietzsche #histodons #history #PoliticalTheory #HistoryofIdeas

  10. Top ten posts in October 2025

    library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/01/t

    #account #achieve #AdamHassan #AdamHulse #AdeptusExemptus #AdeptusMajor #AdeptusMinor #adopted #alchemicalInquiry #aleisterCrowley #AlexanderSaxton #AliMaloney #allBeings #AmandaBlake #amongMany #amusement #AmyBoucher #Anat #ancientGods #ancientIsrael #AngelikaMay #Anglican #anthology #archivalMaterials #artists #Asherah #astarte #astralDeities #AtlanticOcean #AtlantisBookshop #Baal #BarneyMuldoon #bbc #BBCRadio #belief #BernhardBeyer #bestPosts #bestRemembered #bestTen #biblicalMagi #Blondie #BobbyCampbell #BookOfTheLaw #buddhism #CJSubko #California #Canaan #CanaanitePolytheism #CanaaniteReligionAndMythology #CatholicSuperstition #celebrated #charlatan #CharlesMocenigo #ChristianIdiom #ChristianKabbalah #ChristianNonDuality #churchRitual #churches #ChymicalWedding #cleansing #commonMetaphysicalTemplate #comparativeFramework #ConfessioFraternitatis #conspiracies #conspiracy #contemplativePractice #cosmic #counterculturalBookshops #counterculturalIcon #cultOfYahweh #curiosity #dangerousManipulator #DanteBonutto #darkArts #DavidMitchell #deliverance #deliveranceMinistry #demanding #demonology #dismissed #distinctlySeparate #divineFeminine #DivineUnity #DoWhatThouWiltShallBeTheWholeOfTheLaw #Doctrinal #doctrineOfRéintégration #Doinel #drugTaking #dues #DutchSchulz #earlyHistory #EdgarBroughton #EdwardianEccentric #ÉgliseGnostique #El #EleanorGraydon #eliphasLevi #ElizabethRMcClellan #ÉlusCoëns #emanation #encounters #esotericChristianity #esotericCurrent #esotericKnowledge #esotericMysteries #EucharisticVision #evangelicalExcess #evilSpirits #evolved #exile #exorcism #expulsion #FUCKUP_ #faith #FamaFraternitatis #fascination #fear #feast #feminineEros #feminineWisdom #figure #finDeSiècle #fire #FissionChips #flamboyantShowman #FlorenceSusanneReppert #folk #Foreign #France #FrancisYoung #fraudster #freemasonry #FrenchEsotericism #FrenchTradition #fullyDefined #GaryLachman #genius #GeorgeDorn #GeraldineBeskin #GérardEncausse #gnosis #GnosticLiturgy #Gnosticism #god #goddeses #gods #greatGoddesses #greaterFeast #greaterMysteries #HagbardCeline #hardRock #HarryCoin #heavyMetal #HebrewBible #HermeticSymbolism #hermeticism #historicallyGrounded #history #historyOfIdeas #horrors #HowardTheDolphin #IanHGladwin #identity #illuminatedTreeOfLife #Illuminatus #ineffableOne #initiated #initiaticOrders #initiatoryCodification #institutionalDiversity #integralSpirituality #integrate #interiorPath #invoked #JDMYoder #JamesFoster #JannHaworth #JazColemanmKillingJoke #jimmyPage #JohnDay #JohnDillinger #JonathanHart #journals #JulesDoinel #Juniorus #keySource #LauraCathcart #leadingGods #LeeIrwin #lesserMysteries #Levi #LindaBromilow #lineage #lodgeRooms #lodges #Logos #louisClaudeDeSaintMartin #lucidDreamers #lucifer #LydiaWaites #madMan #magickalOrder #Magister #magus #MarkSSmith #MartinèsDePasqually #MaryLouServix #masculinePrinciple #masonic #master #metalMusicians #modernEurope #MoggMorgan #Molech #monotheism #monotheisticFaith #moon #Mot #mountaineer #MrCrowley #Musicians #mysteries #mysteriesOfNature #mysticalInsight #nativeChristianNonDuality #NeoplatonicMetaphysics #neoplatonism #newGeneration #nineGrades #occultChurches #occultReligion #occultist #October2025 #OldTestament #OllyPearson #openInvitation #OrderOfTheGoldenAndRosyCross #otherDeities #outrightRejection #OzzyOsbourne #paganGods #pansentience #Papus #PatrickDMiller #PaulMorley #pedagogiesOfUnity #pervert #Philosophus #pioneeringThinker #plymouthBrethren #poet #popularCulture #Power #practicalWisdom #Practicus #primaryDeity #progressiveEstablishment #prophet #provocation #psychedelia #public #publicForm #RLoftiss #realities #rediscover #Reincarnation #reintegration #religion #religiousHorror #religiousTrauma #remarkableTransformation #remarkablyCoherent #Rephaim #Resheph #return #rigorous #riteOfExorcism #ritual #ritualForms #robertAntonWilson #RobertPearson #RobertShea #rockStars #rosicrucian #RosicrucianManifestos #rosicrucianSociety #rosicrucianism #RyanDay #sacredMarriage #SaintMartin #SaintYvesDAlveydre #SashaRavitch #SaulGoodman #scandal #scandalous #selfMythology #seven #SgtPepper #SimonMoon #soleGod #sophia #spiritualEntities #spiritualOutlook #spiritualSignificance #StephenHoward #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #sun #symbol #symbolicSynthesis #syncreticCuriosity #taoism #thaumaturgicalHeritage #TheAMA #TheBeatles #TheGreatBeast #TheOneirocriticalSociety #theWickedestManInTheWorld #theWorldSOldest #theoreticalFoundations #Theoreticus #theurgy #ToddPurse #topPosts #topTen #underworldDeities #unity #unwaveringDevotion #VanessaSantos #Vedanta #vision #westernEsotericism #wholeness #WieboGrobler #worlds #wreckedLives #yahweh

  11. The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

    hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

    #hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

  12. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  13. I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

    #zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas adjacentpossible.substack.com/

  14. • In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

    • In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

    • Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

    #modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

  15. Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

    I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

    The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

    >> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

    I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

    #Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

  16. Our reality isn't fixed. Explore the "conceptual earthquakes"—from Agriculture & Writing to Quantum Physics—that reshaped humanity, & the future leaps (AI, Consciousness, Energy) that could define life for 10 billion humans in this century.

    Read: 10billion.substack.com/p/the-i

    #HistoryOfIdeas #Futurism #ParadigmShift #10Billion

  17. 📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

    📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direita

    #Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX

  18. 📕 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, terá também uma sessão de apresentação em Setúbal.

    Está agendada para sexta-feira, 14 de Fevereiro, pelas 19h, na Casa da Cultura. Albérico Afonso fará a apresentação.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direita

    #Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #Setúbal #CulturaEmSetúbal

  19. Vasco Paiva, engenheiro florestal e membro do PCP, é o convidado da segunda sessão do ciclo #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.

    Com o título "Montanhas, Baldios e Comunismo em Portugal", está agendada para 13 de Fevereiro, às 17h30, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/communi

    #Histodons #Communism #Comunismo #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #MovimentosSociais #VascoPaiva #HistóriaDePortugal #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica

  20. 📕 A 'tour' de apresentação do livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, chega a Coimbra na próxima semana.

    Será apresentado na Casa Municipal da Cultura por José Manuel Pureza e Sofia Santos.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direita

    #Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita

  21. 📕 Depois de Porto e Braga, é a vez de Lisboa acolher a apresentação do mais recente livro de Fernando Rosas — "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas".

    Tiago Rodrigues e Ricardo Cabral Fernandes participarão na apresentação a 9 de Janeiro, na Biblioteca Palácio Galveias.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direita

    #Histodons #NewBook #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #NovoLivro #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita

  22. 🆕 Tomorrow, it's kickstart day for our new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.

    The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.

    Free admission.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/comm

    @histodons
    @histodon

    #Histodons #Communism #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #CivilWar #Russia #PoliticalLanguage #PoliticalViolence #RussianCivilWar #GuerraCivil #Comunismo

  23. 📕 O novo livro de Fernando Rosas, "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas" (Edições tinta-da-china) vai ser lançado no Porto, na Unicepe - Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, CRL, a 29 de Novembro.

    Pouco depois, a 2 de Dezembro, o historiador ruma a Braga, para uma apresentação na Livraria Centésima Página.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/agenda/

    #Histodons #NewBook #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalIdeas #Ideology #HistóriaPolítica #HistóriaDasIdeias #IdeasPolíticas #Ideologia #NovoLivro

  24. 🆕 A week from today, on the 29th, we will kickstart a new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.

    The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.

    Free admission.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/comm

    @histodons
    @histodon

    #Histodons #Communism #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #CivilWar #Russia #PoliticalLanguage #Propaganda #PoliticalViolence #RussianCivilWar

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