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People on this board use him to defend christianity too. it's hilarious
Egoism was a mistake 2bh.

Because they didn't read him. They only know that there is something called "spook" and use it in the sense of "something you like that I don't like" and not in any way put forward by Stirner. Nevermind that his book talks much more about property than spooks, for example.

>>9499347
i just the ego and his own, what can i expect

okay, go ahead and start

I've started reading Satre's novels and boy are they bad.
There's only so much I can blame on the translation, I'm glad it has become not only acceptable but fashionable to shit on post-modernism because not only is his writing somehow both mundane and obscene, it always reads as subtly masochistic.
I know people who study things like politics and religion and they rave about 20th century french intellectuals but I now feel comfortable not spending my mortality on those shits. Derrida, Foucault, all of them can fucking eat a dick, France's contributions are wildly overrated.
I made this same mistake trying to read Baudelaire. I keep thinking everyone can't be wrong - surely France, in it's entirety doesn't lack talent but the deeper you go, the more inescapable that very conclusion becomes.

>>9499914
Both insightful and well-argued. Thank you anon.

why did he wear the patch again?
was he strabismic or something?
(not a bainpost)

>>9499181
He was a big fan of Metal Gear Solid

>31 read
>1 currently reading
>666 to read

Why should I care?
15 years ago they were reading Hairy Sharter, and before that some other low-brow shit.

why would i be surprised by that?
kids like tolkien and cs lewis too.
big shock

They've been reading worse.

He wasn't a monster or anything, but Kafka clearly felt alienated and confused by his father's lack of understanding.

>Kafka describes his dad as "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature"
>Kafka's protagonists are all betas

>Kafka's father was a professional slaughterer
>Kafka became a vegetarian

Just sayin

>>9498674
I ready an biography on him recently, but only one, so it's all I have to go on.

It seemed like he created the alienation with his father intentionally. A lot of his life seems to be self-imposed torment which he used as a tool in his writing.

Also his father exerted a lot of pressure on him re: working, having a family, being a man, etc., but a lot of that pressure was subtle.

Don't you?

>>9498661
his mom?

>>9498659
You know, for every analytical essay about how Hamlet secretly wanted t fuck his mom, I bet there's at least one about how was secretly gay.

And that fact makes me mad.

The initiative to do it on your own without having to ask /lit/ for help doing what's really not a complicated thing. You think you're doing it because it's a way to make money despite it being beneath you, when really you're actually below than the writers of those works who didn't have to ask.

>>9498347
at least two non-binary characters, lots of gays and people of color

If you aren't already a woman, adopt a female pen name

Hi Oprah!

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>How to Kill a Mockingbird
>gives no instructions at all about killing mockingbirds

>>9498312
You know, as much as I didn't enjoy this book, it's excellent for summer

>>9498282
Because every noumenal object is perceived through our senses, and thus inaccurate and unreliable. Only certain categories, such as mathematics, space and time, are a priori analytical (existing/knowledgeable without the intervention of our senses thus accurate)

>>9498301
>thus inaccurate and unreliable

Why exactly indicates that this is certainly the case? What is to prevent a claim that our senses form a genuine perspective of the world?

>>9498301

wtf no none of this is correct.

>>9498043
You guys haven't finished reading the Greeks yet or what?

>>9498043
>The instructions will be the only one remembered though.

that's not how you spell the buried giant anon

>>9498131
The general public didn't like that one though. Maybe you are right. Ishiguro is more likely to be remembered on the whole. His books are great. Really love remains, unconsoled and never let me go.

>>9497978
Have you heard of Zygmunt Bauman?

>reading self-help books by a fucking turtle

>>9497991
>>9497978

Try reading Zygmunt Bauman's "Liquid Love"

Dunno if this will help you or not. Give it a skim first.

You want to start us off, shitdick?

>>9497942
What's it about?

>>9497948
A guide to cleaning your room

>>9497929
>I reply with a yes

no lol

I've never even kissed a woman.

>>9497845
You've probably consistently misunderstood him.

>>9497858
What makes you say that?

>>9497882
Because he is unanimously considered hard by the academic comunity in its entirety.
If you really think he's easy to understand, and that you need no prior knowledge of philosophy, chances are that you've just misinterpreted him.