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Ata Devrim

@mrdudeoo.bsky.social
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Marxist / History of Economic Thought / Philosophy & Sociology Extensively studied Marx, Parsons (PhD Thesis), Habermas, Freud, Plato, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Böhm-Bawerk & Durkheim in the past. Currently studying Hegel, Adam Smith, Keynes

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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The contents of my "soon-to-be-finished" Hegel book: 1st ch: Consciousness 2nd ch: Self-Consciousness: Sociological Aspects 3rd ch: Reason: Hegel's critique of Kant, Fichte, Schelling 4th ch: Spirit: Philosophy of Right/Ethics/Law 5th ch: God and Religion
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The contents of my "soon-to-be-finished" Hegel book: 1st ch: Consciousness 2nd ch: Self-Consciousness: Sociological Aspects 3rd ch: Reason: Hegel's critique of Kant, Fichte, Schelling 4th ch: Spirit: Philosophy of Right/Ethics/Law 5th ch: God and Religion
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
@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
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Adventures in Marxist Theory
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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."
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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?"
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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.
two books of Schelling - which are the system of transcendental idealism and philosophy of art.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My review for Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Representation" published today.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
RIP Jonathan Lear. Back in the 2000s, I reviewed his book "Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life".
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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).
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Happy birthday to the great thinker, sociologist and economist, Karl Marx!
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 23/04/2025
“Piero and Me.” I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
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David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025
David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Based on what Antonio Negri says, the disobedience to authority is not only a right, but it's a natural and healthy act.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Lately over 200 new followers. Everyone is welcomed but selective follow-back became problematic for me. If being mutuals is desired please introduce yourselves.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I have a song from the 90s for Elon Musk: "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it"
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a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .
ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .
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Melody Cooper @melodyc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
1967 MLK quote: “The 
evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of altruism and evils of racism.”
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
As Pinkard puts it, Hegel felt uneasy with the interpreters or the so-called followers of Schelling.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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.
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 28/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
According to Marx and Engels, the "mystification" of Hegel's philosophy is to serve the purpose to maintain the status quo.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Poster for 
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 ‧ Documentary/Drama
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“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)
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Greatest Films of All-Time - A daily thread 🎞️ [1] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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
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Mr. Dude_o_o - "Metamorphosis" (Dziga Vertov / Kino Eye)
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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.
two books of Schelling - which are the system of transcendental idealism and philosophy of art.
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Katherine Everitt 🧨 @katherineveritt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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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Quilting with Crisis: A Theory of Historical Space
Skribent: Katherine EverittI dette essayet legg filosof og New Yorkar Katherine Everitt fram ein historiefilosofi inspirert av kvantefysikk, Georg W.F. Hegel og Alain Badiou. Ho argumenterer for at hi...
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Working...
Books everywhere
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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.
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Ata Devrim @mrdudeoo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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.
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