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fuck off autistic anglo

we jerk off to conties here

Metaphysically I am a non-dualist/idealist, but if I had to actually take a cautious scientific stance, it would be that consciousness and phenomenal experience/subjectivity ITSELF is at the very least causally efficacious and important, in Renouvier's and James' sense, and cannot be reduced to emanationism, either epistemologically or empirically.

Dennett's re-warmed bundle theory sucks balls but at least it isn't emanationism.

i don't know but marxism is fucking stupid

oh look, a collection of random terms that OP has equated to all mean the same thing and be completely compatible.

But no, I'm not a neomarxist, a post-structuralist, or a critical theorist

>>9381692
>same thing
Not the same, related or somehow connected.

Sot-Weed is one of my faves man, haven't read anything like it. Couldn't get through Mason & Dixon last time I tried.

Maybe give Burr a shot though. Historical realism, but it's funny.

Don Quixote, for sure. Similarly metafictional and digressionary narrative to both Sot-Weed and Mason/Dixon and had Ebeneezer Cooke's paralysis resolved itself in books of chivalry and not poetry he surely would have been Don Quixote.

Maybe The Canterbury Tales, too. Chaucer's a lot more hip than people tend to think.

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Heard good things about this

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>>9381555

inb4 people only respond by saying how much they hate the examples in the pic

>>9381412
By the filename I suspect my suggestion will be of little use, but:
Hu3land,
Machado de Assis - Memórias postumas de Bráscubas
(Bras Cubas Postumous Memoirs)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/index.php?s=The%20Posthumous%20Memoirs%20of%20Bras%20Cubas&f_lang=0&f_columns=0&f_ext=0&f_group=1

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Sweden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emigrants_(novel_series)

It has helped shape the national identity of Sweden, and the culture of the country.

Don't worry, you only have to read the first one. It's about Swedish emigrants to the US during the great emigration period over here. It's basically considered one of the best, if not the best, works of Swedish literature. It's inspired a bunch of other works, including opera, orchestral pieces, other books, etc. It was even bastardized in a commercial just a year or two ago. If you're really lazy I guess you could watch a movie about it instead, a couple of them have been produced based on the book(s).

Here's a song, in Swedish of course, about an event in the book. I won't spoil it for you, but I guess you could look up the lyrics if you wanted. But it's basically about the wife in the story's doubt in God's existence, and reaffirming of her belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2idVI73ais

I don't have a goodreads profile. convince me why I should make one

>>9381284
You shouldn't, it's a pointless circlejerk.

>>9381284
I find it to be a useful way to keep track of what I would like to read in the medium to long term, and that setting a yearly goal encourages me to read more than I would otherwise.

>>9381212
Put me to sleep with the one guy talking about bs all the time so I dropped it.

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thought it was a cool idea when i had just heard about it years before reading

after reading it... it was alright, didnt do as much with the concept like i thought it would

Definitely some contextualising books before.

What's the last epic poem in you list?

>>9381031
Paradise lost more than likely. How would i get contextualisation for the Epic of Gilgamesh?

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Published versions of the poems will almost always come with a short introductory essay that explains it to you and puts it in context. Publishers want you to 'get it'. Just pick up the books and start reading.

atheists BTFO

>>9380913
Why would these things be the only proof of "self concousnes". These are just examples of our "self consciousnes" and not representative of "self concousnes" as a whole

>>9380929
These our just examples of how we express our "self concousnes" sorry about that

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>Those Pynchon editions

Top right one is "The little golden calf"(Gilded calf) and the other one is Notes from the Underground in case you can't tell.

the grapes of wrath

why is he wearing those headphones the wrong way

So Harold Bloom is a third year English student?

>>9380199
In his most recent interview he said Clarissa was the best novel he ever read.

Just read Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart

Mi diario desu

Three sips of gin.

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Do you know any good science fiction novel about of past human civilization?
The story of "Foundation and Earth" is settled 20.000 years in the future respect the novels of Robot Series.
In this book the main protagonists are in search of the ancient planet Earth and on their journey they discover uninhabited worlds previously colonized by humans.
In this history they do to ancient human civilizations references, languages and cultures that they changed, forgotten historical figures, etc.
So, do you know some good similar story?

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>>9379524
>Foundation and Earth
Fucking cliffhangers. Is there even a sequel to this fanfic or official wise or in an anthology or something?

Who's the nicest girl protag in fantasy?

I've enjoyed Anthony Daniels, though he is a much better essayist than an author.

Ex-pope Ratzinger has written some thoughtful books about current politics too.

I suppose Mark Steyn is enjoyable to read, though obviously less high-brow than the above.

And Sir Roger, naturally

>>9378971
Ed Feser, Alsadair MacIntyre and Joseph Ratzinger.
Haven't read that much contemporary stuff desu.

Pat Buchanan

Unironically gets better the more you think about it

Steppenwolf is what German settlers in the Prairies called Coyotes

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Title looks like one of those "What I expected, what i got" memes. I never read it because I'm sure it doesn't have a giant wolf ripping people in half.