PHILOSOPHY'S NARROW ESCAPE: A VIDEO CAPSULE PRESENTS THE CANON

A new 26-minute video from Open Culture claims to have saved philosophy by highlighting key thinkers like Socrates and Wittgenstein. Find out what it means.

#PhilosophyVideo, #Socrates, #Wittgenstein, #OpenCulture, #IntellectualHistory

https://newsletter.tf/video-saves-philosophy-socrates-wittgenstein-forgotten/

This new video condenses the ideas of great thinkers like Socrates and Wittgenstein into just 26 minutes, claiming to save philosophy from being forgotten.

#PhilosophyVideo, #Socrates, #Wittgenstein, #OpenCulture, #IntellectualHistory
https://newsletter.tf/video-saves-philosophy-socrates-wittgenstein-forgotten/

📖 Beitrag 1 im 📙 "Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History" (De Gruyter Brill): die programmatische Hinführung "Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History: Introduction" (A. Dziri, B. Dziri & M. Gharaibeh).

🔓 https://tinyurl.com/mrxp34uy

#Canon, #Censorship, #Authority, #Islam, #IntellectualHistory

🆕📙 "Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History"

Herausgegeben von Amir Dziri (Université de Fribourg), Bacem Dziri & Mohammad Gharaibeh bei De Gruyter Brill.

🔓 https://tinyurl.com/mrxp34uy

#Canon, #Censorhip, #Authority, #Islam, #IntellectualHistory

What have been the greatest intellectual achievements?

https://www.thinkingcomplete.com/2017/09/what-have-been-greatest-intellectual.html

#HackerNews #greatestachievements #intellectualhistory #knowledgeinnovation #thoughtleadership #criticalthinking

Book Club: Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

https://boffosocko.com/2026/03/08/book-club-yuval-noah-hararis-nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai/

👉🎯"Intellectual history has long suffered from a materialist deficit. The discipline, as Samuel Moyn argues, is in sore need of “a theory of ideology” that conceptualizes ideas as not merely intellectual but also material forces. Absent an awareness of the social dimension of ideas, Moyn contends, intellectual history risks sliding into idealism, substituting a theory of discursive context for what should be one of social relations.

In Moyn’s work, intellectual history stands accused of operating on an “implausible” theory of historical agency and change. It imagines ideas to arise at the point where historical context meets writerly intention but, in doing so, fails to acknowledge that both history and intention are themselves socially and materially conditioned. This leaves it generally ill equipped to confront the role ideas play in perpetuating and justifying material inequalities or relations of dominance.

We are seeing the effects of this analytical deficit today. As we bear witness to far-reaching shifts in not only the political economy but the intellectual life of advanced capitalist societies, our capacity to interpret how we got here appears pallid and incomplete." 🎯👈

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/02/stuart-hall-ideology-and-neoliberalisms-reactionary-drift/

#Neoliberalism #Ideology #Idealism #Materialism #PoliticalEconomy #IntellectualHistory