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>>9251691
4chan desu
reading books while taking a dump makes me feel guilty

How do you have time to read on the toilet?

I just get in, bang one out, wipe and leave.

there isn't an untermensch in nietzsche
only letzte mensch, last man

better read him off the toilet

>>9251631
sort of a worse version of stirner desu

>>9251631
strong parallels with stoicism though anti-establishment. And the principal counterpoint to Confucianism. I thought it was a good read though it requires multiple reads for the nuances to really sink in.

its a good alternative materialist philosophy of life. western translations tend to hit on the individualism a little harder than what's there. i think the ideas in there could be found in any rural community though and are not really intuitive to urban readers, who generally see themselves as self-sufficient.

the cosmic implication that there is a single ordering factor makes sense when dao is interpreted as chaos. i also like the emphasis on submitting to said cosmic chaos and only dealing with the most pressing personal events in the least challenging way. unfortunately this usually means conforming to get along and something that is also de-emphasized in the western interpretations.

>>9251556
genre fiction generally, but enhanced by the fact that it isnt poisoned by western neo-Hugo Awards type politics. The author was culturally free to make the world as he wanted.

>>9251556
The short stories are fun, postmodern takes on fairy tales. It's not high literature, but as far as most fantasy goes, I thought it was enjoyable.

His Hussite Trilogy is vastly superior to Witcher (no Mary Sue waifus for starters), but I don't think there's an English translation out there.

The Witcher series get progressively worse with each book.

t. Polack

Maybe you should hold onto them tighter, then you could finish reading them

stop reading memes

>>9251512
oh man, don't worry all those books sucked! read some gaddis, steinbeck, chekhov, joyce, dickens, and a splish splash of master and margarita. i would start with master and margarita though. you'll be satisfied.

Hamlet, Werther.

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>>9251459
My diary. Not even memeing. Werther. Divine Comedy.

>>9251436
you cant choose to be one of us

>>9251436
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anything Brother Nathaniel says
that's all you need

>>9251436
https://www.reddit.com/r/Judaism/wiki/books

throw obscurantist metaphysics authors in to the trahs where they were and belong.

>>9251351
it's not obscure if you've done your homework, anon :^)

>>9251338
Being is covered be the 'coming-forward'(sorry I have never read an English translation of Heidegger)/appearance of beings/phenomena. Basically whenever a being appears in its presence, its Being has stepped back and let itself cover up to let beings be in the clearing/Lichtung that it thus has created. So Being is present in every appearance only through its absence, through which it creates room for beings/phenomena to present themselves. It goes back to Heideggers interpretation of the greek aletheia concept and his concept of Er-reignis. So yes, in this way it is through universal Being that we can grasp phenomena, but as you say it always has to do with Dasein, as we have to embark on the project of the question of Being with our basis in the being asking the question. Thus why temporality becomes important later on.

Sorry if this makes no sense, English is not my first language and Heidegger is hard enough to explain/grasp without a language barrier, lol. (Language in general for Heidegger, is a barrier... Maybe an opening at the same time haha)

*aged 35

>>9251299
>implicit bias we have to favor life over death
nothing new. Schopenhauer or Hegesias practically taught the same (better than being born is to have never been- 'because everything that is no more exists as little as that which has never been" - Schopenhauer

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He coined the term "viviocentrism", which basically refers to the implicit bias we have to favor life over death. He claims this bias is a form of prejudice against death, and that his own suicide was an "extension and continuation of the Western project of eliminating bias, especially biologically based biases (i.e. race or sex based biases)".


woah....really activated my almonds

Or should get a different "translation"? Help me here, lads.

If you don't have anything better to do sure. It's not like you can't read the original later.

>>9251260
can you read old english?

Well done, you have selected the greatest book ever written.

Remember to read the two Moore essays beforehand (a defence of common sense and proof of an external world)

>>9251224
Descartes stuff
Humes stuff
Lockes stuff
Freges stuff
On certainty sure but you might not appreciate it as much

>>9251192
rivage des syrtes is 10/10, its like taking drugs

only thing i can sort of compare it to is GR

read balcony in a forest after, it's less baroque in its style but still good

>>9251200
dubs don't lie, thanks dude

I speak decent French (I can read Houellebecq in the original, so about genre fiction level). How difficult is Gracq to read in French? Est-ce que vous m'avez bien compris anon?

>>9251211
rivage des syrtes is pretty purple in terms of prose with archaic words and like i said, it's baroque but great, you'll probably need a dictionary. there were words i had never heard but i loved the book so much, it might be my favorite novel.

balcony in a forest is almost more realist and straight forward in terms of style but gracq denies ever being a realist and i agree with him. haven't read anything else but his war diaries sound good

Il est tres tard monsieur l'observateur.

Let alone this bitch doesnt even.backup anything she writes about

am i supposed.to just take it for granted and truth

how was she.so influential in academic circles what the fuck

easily worst author ive read this year

You want to give some examples or are you quite content for your thread to turn into monotonous shit-posting and name calling?

>>9251178
heidegger fucked her annually, in the cabin where gods dwell also

phenomenology was a mistake

christianity is blah

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>>9251114


better than the alternatives

>>9251103
Dis bitch bangin.

Must give one a lot of pride, having once had the finest textiles in the world.

irish people are subhuman, even they know it. I know it and I'm part irish.

nothing more cringeworthy than Irish people who think being Irish is a point of pride

The trappings of genre fiction are the only thing not bad about genre fiction.

Don't write genre fiction

>>9251038
Write something original.

(And if it's not original, why write it anyway?)