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When your Philosophy lecturer has read Foucault but hasn't heard of Stirner.

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>mfw the story is written in the present tense

Why do writers do this?

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going to a Zizek talk next week, what am I in for?

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Do you think that I can sell this to a major publisher?

>Shaquelle is lost in between worlds of academia and the hood. In between defending his thesis on King Arthur and talking his best friend Mo'Shawn out of robbing the local 7-11, he lives a life of nonstop excitement. One night during an epic study binge, Mo'Shawn drags Shaquelle off to an IHOP, not knowing that there Mo'Shawn has planned a robbery. There, Shaquelle is accidentally shot in the head. Shaquelle finds himself transporting to another realm, and finds himself actually on the round table of King Arthur. Can he use his knowledge of the hood to lead the knights to victory? Time is ticking as he has hours to live in the ICU, and his thesis is due in the morning; and in Arthur's court he will learn about true friendship, solve the nagging question of his sexuality, experience the secrets of his thesis first hand, and seek the holy chalice that will heal him and bring him back to his reality. But if Shaquelle can transport from modern times to King Arthur's realm, perhaps Merlin come to Brooklyn, and terrorize the modern police force using ancient magic? And who better to serve Merlin than Mo'Shawn. Together, they solve the nagging question of their sexuality, and in the end, we learn that maybe reality and fantasy are not all they are cracked up to be, and that the best kept secrets are right in front of you.

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What are the best books for overcoming existential uncertainty and anxiety?
>inb4 just get laid, just go outside, just b yourself bro
This is not a self-help thread, but a book recommendation thread, fuck off faggot.

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Was he right ?

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ITT we post the GOAT book trailers

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

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David Foster Wallace is not high culture.

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Looking for some good Orthodox Christian writers, could be theological or fiction.

>inb4 philokalia
>inb4 Dostoevsky

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>tfw rejected for publication again

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what is your definition of the übermensch and how would he live his life?

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Comrades, lend me your memes.

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>*YOU* are full of bullshit.

>Hegelian is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that
>a lot of substandard thinkers use it, to the point where it's much much
>easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
>the choice of ordinary language were to do *nothing* but keep the
>continentals out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use it.

>In other words: the choice of ordinary language is the only sane choice.
>I know Gilbert Ryle jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come
>to the conclusion that any philosopher that would prefer the project to be
>in Hegelian is likely a philosopher that I really *would* prefer to piss
>off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.

>Hegelian leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using
>the "deep" features of the language like dialectics and deconstruction and other
>total and utter crap, that may "help" your program, but causes:

> - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me
> that dialectics and especially deconstruction are understandable and
> translatable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny)

> - inefficient abstracted thought models where two years down the road
> you notice that some abstraction wasn't very clear, but now all
> your publications depends on all the nice semiotics around it, and you
> cannot fix it without rewriting your app.

>In other words, the only way to do good, clear, and language-level and
>translatable philosophy ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are
>basically available in ordinary language. And limiting your project to ordinary
>language means that people don't screw that up, and also means that you
>get a lot of philosophers that do actually understand language-level issues
>and don't screw things up with any idiotic "semiotics" crap.

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Hey /lit/ any romance novels do you recommend

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Who is to blame for this?