Zohar Atkins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“In the muffled, sometimes irritable confusion of boredom we are reaching out to a recurrent sense of emptiness out of which our real desire can crystallize.” Adam Phillips, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

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The “lower” the culture gets, the more explicit the assault on the senses, the more we can see it as a kind of grasping for holiness, in reverse—an unconscious attempt to summon God by way of the devil, much as Mikhail Bulgakov did with his Master and Margarita.

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I learned so much talking @EconTalker about his amazing new book, Wild Problems, Jewish thought, Dorian Gray, aspiration, parenting, regret, forgiveness, uncertainty, humility, mindfulness, secularism, and the limits of Economics. Self-recommending! https://t.co/UyaoJ1QrCJ

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For me, an outsider, it's the concept of intrinsic value. It seems deeply mysterious and yet fundamentally important. It also raises the philosophical question of whether anything can be said to be intrinsic. To answer we must go back to Aristotle's metaphysics and then boomerang… https://t.co/wQiMQwr7CV

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Elias Canetti says in Crowds and Power that Judaism is a locked Twitter account and Christianity is an unlocked one.

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This was Plato’s Socrates’s concern about writing in general. https://t.co/vrSHXiOTdd

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Beautiful conversation with @BenPurkert on his debut novel The Men Can't Be Saved, branding and advertising, art and commerce, Jewishness and Judaism, spirituality in the modern world, masculinity and its discontents, comedy, academia. https://t.co/YKBi3kZK4t

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he had to jettison that embarrassing economic determinism. You got that from Allan Bloom, the Closing of the American Mind, right? Yeah I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Or do you have any thoughts of your own to add? https://t.co/kXhnNUhULs

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In some ways, this is still the question. 18th c. Skeptics like FH Jacobi thought we should place our trust in vibes and not listen to reason (fake news), while rationalists like Mendelssohn believed in something like what Jonathan Rauch calls the Constitution of Knowledge. 2/x

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A Heideggerian Psalm written by OpenAI in the style of the King James. What a time to be alive. https://t.co/xlQSpmPsZ9

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