Ateş Uslu

30. Historical materialist literature on intellectual history is stagnating. Marxists should focus on doing actual critical work instead of sticking to the “the Left should learn from that conservative philosopher” kind of stuff. Follow the feminist historians for guidance, y’all.

Sorry for the late reply (two months!). I still need to read Holz on this,but I believe he is referring to Heinemann’s thesis, according to which P. conceives the One as "the unity of the rational and the irrational."More recent scholars tend to deny any element of irrationality in P.’s metaphysics.

29. This was also an opinion: bsky.app/profile/ates...

Tayeb Tisini, Die Materieauffassung in der islamisch-arabischen Philosophie des Mittelalters, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1972.

28. Tisini's book on the conceptions of matter in Islamic thought is far better executed than Bloch's "Aristotelian Left." Yet the former remains almost entirely forgotten, while the latter is well read and widely translated. More translations of Tisini's works from Arabic are much needed.

Istvan Meszaros Philosophy, Ideology, and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation

István Mészáros is an underrated philosopher and this one is his most underrated book.

Very humbled to be shortlisted alongside such an impressive group of scholars

Ateş Uslu (@atesuslu.bsky.social), A Social History of Political Thought, “Demands for Equality Against Abstract Universalism (1789‑1917)”

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Also, at least two more Lukács events are in the works: one in Konstanz (early November) and another in Berlin (late January). Details will be announced soon.

An entire day dedicated to Lukács - complete with conferences, walking tours, and lunch? In Heidelberg? That may sound like a Lukács scholar’s dream, but it’s reality. Heidelberg, October 21, no pre-subscription required.
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

And we would have to quarrel six more times about the most revolutionary translation of some random term he uses in a footnote, accusing the most recent translator of being a petty bourgeois revisionist.

The conqueror's not-so-triumphal entrance to the building: bsky.app/profile/poet...

And trustee Gürsel Tekin, who -like a conquistador- is now trying to enter the office, which is defended by barricades. Notably, he was a long-serving member of the same party he is now attempting to conquer with the help of police forces.

Evrim Rızvanoğlu CHP İstanbul İl Başkanlığı 14:30

Sorry for the link to the Other Place, but this is a touching scene: Women, MPs, and party members are resolutely defending the main office of the Istanbul headquarters of the Republican People’s Party. x.com/i/broadcasts...

Background information: bsky.app/profile/anti...

A footage, just can give you an idea: bsky.app/profile/fdin...

Turkey restricts social media amid police blockade on opposition party bianet.org/haber/turkey...

Police use tear gas outside CHP office as court-appointed İstanbul leadership prepares to take over The opposition party is resisting a court decision to suspend its provincial leadership in İstanbul based on allegations of fraud during the congress where they were elected by party members.

Police use tear gas outside CHP office as court-appointed İstanbul leadership prepares to take over

🗞️Evrim Kepenek & Gülseven Özkan bianet.org/haber/police...

Bluesky is not yet widespread in Turkey, and X/Twitter remains the main platform for information. Please try to repost and circulate any reliable information about what is happening right now.

In the meantime, social media (already restricted, as is usually the case in Turkey) abounds with messages from journalists, students, academics, politicians, and ordinary internet users who have raised their voices against any part of the process and are now being arrested.

We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.

Excellent suggestion! I will explore her contributions, both for the theoretical foundation and for the weeks devoted to Kant’s political thought.

I was not planning to include the works of Hochschild or Federici, as this is a course in intellectual history primarily focused on 18th-19th c. source readings. However, I do think their works will be important for framing the theoretical approach.
Amy Dru Stanley’s book is certainly of interest.

Classical works such as Pateman’s The Sexual Contract are, of course, on the reading list.
The course is part of the History Dept.’s curriculum,but the audience will likely include students from a variety of departments.
By the way,the remaining 25% of the course will focus on non-Western contexts.

I'm finalizing the syllabus for a course on Work and Gender in Political Thought that I will be teaching at Konstanz University. About 75% of the course will consist of a critical analysis of canonical texts, ranging from Rousseau to Mill. Any suggestions for hidden gems in the secondary literature?

Husserl’s essentialist approach can be criticized because it overlooks social, historical, and political contexts, but this critique could offer an opportunity to develop a new methodology that integrates it with contemporary social phenomena.

Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP

I couldn’t help posting this (and sorry, I don’t have time to provide a translation and context for people unfamiliar with the Turkish high school curriculum 😀 )

Oh, by the way, yes, generative AI is a tool among others, no matter how complicated it is. And a tool is not neutral; any tool can be manipulated for whatever purpose, political, economic, criminal, etc. You could use a hammer as a murder weapon, but you are educated and compelled not to.