Profile picture
, 6 tweets, 1 min read
My Authors
Read all threads
Egypt is:

Plato: The Body
Aristotle: Weakness of Will (Akrasia)
Epictetus: A State of Mind
Kant: The World of Appearances
Rousseau: Society
Hegel: The Promised Land before knowing itself to be the Absolute
Jung: My Shadow
Heidegger: Metaphysics
Derrida: Binary thinking
Augustine: Human Nature
Descartes: The notion of an evil demon that proves God
Spinoza: A mode of God
Marx: Alienated Labor
Burke: Alienation from tradition
Freud: Neurosis
Arendt: Thoughtlessness
Benjamin: The reproducible
Adorno: A distorted image of utopia
Levinas: Totality (Totalizing thinking)
Merleau-Ponty: Disassociation
Sartre: Bad faith
Rorty: Idealism
Berlin: Fundamentalism
Strauss: Historicism
Schmitt: The Enemy/ Liberalism’s unwillingness to choose one
Locke: Infringement on my right to property
Hobbes: state of nature/war of all against all
Gillian Rose: Postmodernism
Hayek: Big Government
Foucault: The Panopticon/Surveillance
Althusser: Ideology
Mouffe: Consensus
Virilio: Virtuality
Agamben: Bare Life
Zizek: Liberal hypocrisy
Schlegel: Sincerity
DFW: Irony
Nietzsche: Slave Morality
Buber: Non-mutuality
Picketty: Inequality
Darwin: Extinction
Rawls: That which I wouldn't choose behind a veil of ignorance
Spivak: Colonialism
de Beauvoir: the (male) gaze
Bachelard: The forgetting of space
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Enjoying this thread?

Keep Current with Zohar Atkins

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ZoharAtkins see all

Profile picture
Zohar Atkins
@ZoharAtkins
Some theological ruminations on #coronavirus by way of reflections on the laws of Shabbat.
Rabbinic tradition posits that there are 39 archetypal forms of prohibited labor on Sabbath.
The first of these 39 to be discussed in the Mishna and Talmud in the most counter-intuitive, namely, carrying (from one domain to another).
Read 19 tweets
Profile picture
Zohar Atkins
@ZoharAtkins
To celebrate the decade, I went through my Amazon book orders for 2009 and 2019 and this is what I discovered (it's a 'thin slice,' since I buy books through other channels)
In 2009, I mostly bought works of philosophy and "theory" (with history in second); and in 2019, I mostly bought works of poetry. 2/
In 2009, many (most?) of the people I read were dead (and canonized), non-English speaking/writing, and authors of long, dense works. In 2019, a majority are living, comparatively obscure, English-language, and brief. 3/
Read 55 tweets
Profile picture
Zohar Atkins
@ZoharAtkins
Finding parallels in history is a Midrashic impulse; it’s the impulse of the Seder that says “in every generation”
It’s the impulse that imputes the first yeshiva, anachronistically, to Shem and Ever
It’s the impulse that locates the Temple Mount at the same place where Abraham sacrificed a ram in place of Isaac
Read 25 tweets

Embed code for your website

×
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!