Do you like mythology as described by Campbell?
>>9897014
No he makes far too many logical leaps and reads texts backwards to fit into his theories rather than letting them speak in their own terms. It's cute that he constructed his own little fantasy mythology like Tolkein but its not something a serious reader should strive for.
>>9897070
What logical leaps has he made?
>Jewsph Campbell
Any cop?
What fuck you mean
Best author to embrace nihilism?
>>9896896
Baudrillard, for sure. Check out the Transparency of Evil and the Perfect Crime.
>>9896896
>embracing nihilism
underage b&
>>9896896
stirner if you like the fun kind of nihilism rather than the woe is me kind
never mind me. Just posting this so I can Google image search it
fuck, nothing. snapped it the museum. I know it's Henri Eugene Le Sidaner's "In the Garden" from 1901. How can I not find this
>>9896890
Reverse search is very precise. A photo will provide no results. You could've at least cropped it...
The painting pretty boring tho
>Got all the same words, don't they?
No. They don't. This simple question demonstrates the average e-book reader's complete lack of understanding of the medium. This is why physical books will always be superior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWE17GqibI
We had this exact thread last week.
What's your favorite dutch book and why is it nooit meer slapen by W.F Hermans?
I love this piece, it's so simple and "boring" yet I kept on reading because Herman's style is amazing.
What's it about?
I don't read much native literature at all. It is in all likelihood a phantom, but I find our culture, be it in movies or novels, to be vulgar, plain and mediocre. We have philosophers such as Bas Haring and René Gude who pride themselves on being folk philosophers.
I don't think there is much depth to be found in our culture. Change my view.
It haven't read a better dutch novel prose-wise, it isn't fancy prose but it's simple, finetuned and stylish. There's no useless sentence or superfluous word in the novel.
Other good dutch works; everything by Nescio is really good and also quite short, so worth a try. Also I like Turks Fruit/Terug Naar Oestgeest by Wolkers, it isn't highflying literature but very colourful and a joy to read.
>>9896838
You come off as a real blowhard
>>9896838
You're probably right, and that is why you might like Hermans. He had also a cynical view on popular culture and the fads of his time, such as communism and antiracism.
Have you read the finest piece of literature of the modern age yet, /lit/?
>>9896704
Bump for posterity!
X^D
>Year 2030
>A book comes out from a philosopher
>Nobody is able to understand him because they do not have a background in the comments, exchanges on boards and blogs he was exposed to and which shaped his thought
>At first the book was hardly being read but after some time it becomes a very popular book
>Years later
>Some doxxer has written a biography on this philosopher with quotes he found from the philosophers early days, one being: "Sonic touches the heart immediately, as the true basic language that everyone everywhere understands"
>The bibliography describes how he later, at older age, rejects Sonic "Is Sonic an authentic character at all? Is he rather not a disease?"
>Later in the bibliography it describes some of the comments he made on a bunch pornographic videos and writes about his first exposure to the redpill community
>The bibliography futher discusses the comments he made at Xenosystes and how exchanges on Slate Star Codex had influenced his later philosophy
>The bibliography then describes some rumors that the philosopher might have been a lover of traps based on some of the comments that the doxxer found
>Also discussed is the possiblity that the philosopher might have been severely autistic
This is the future that people choose.
Keep telling yourself this OP.
>>9897406
This was supposed to be satire, but didn't turn out to be good - at all. The satire is based on a biography of Nietzsche. It discussed his notes, his letters to his peers and other philosophers, and how this influenced and shaped his thought. There was also bits on his personal life.
Imagine if a Nietzsche was born in today's age. He would still read books, but it seems rather likely that he would also spend time on places of the internet. Instead of letters to people he knows in real-life, he could be having a lot of exchanges on message boards, could've read certain blogs, etc.
Philosophers make more sense in a historical context when we know what kind of ideas were there at the time. In case of the internet age, a lot of those ideas might be found online. That's the gist of this. That future thinkers are shaped outside of meatspace.
I read On the Fourfold Root and chunks of the World as Will and Representation, and during the former I found many references and slight corrections/simplifications to Kants Critique of Pure reason.
I just picked up a copy of Kants CoPR, however I find it so brutally obfuscated and dense that I cant help but think would I be okay with just reading Schoppies version of Idealism which seems to be built on the same foundations but made easier ( for me at least) and reaches the same points? Is it okay to use Kants critique as a reference or should i really just get through it before schop?
t. brainlet who will never 'formally' understand philosophy
>>9896571
Schopenhauer wrote a critique of Kant's philosophy, it's an appendix to The World as Will and Representation, maybe it could help you. The most important thing you need to get from Kant is his transcendental aesthetics.
Schopenhauer praises Kant's Prolegomena and recommends reading it before reading the first Critique. Also, he recommends reading the Critique in its first edition.
>He doesn't exclusively read bodice rippers
>>9896535
What are some good bodice rippers for the aspiring bodice ripper reader?
>mfw I buy a 13th century Scottish historical fiction novel
>it turns into a fucking erotica in the 4th chapter
>becomes plagued with poor spelling and grammar
>mfw I still finished it and I don't know why
>>9897259
Have you tried starting with the Greeks?
I have read some of the major works of Plato, and i want to move on to some Aristotle. What are the best texts to start with?
Politics - political philosophy
Nichamachean Ethics - ethical philosophy
Metaphysics - Metaphysics
Aristotle's titles are fairly self-explanatory in content friend, just choose the areas you're most interested in and dive in.
>>9896237
Thanks. Are Sadlers videos a good supplemental material to watch along with it?
>>9896221
The Organon. Just buy a collection of his works like the modern library one, it's like $20 and you get: Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric,On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics.
Redpill me on him
>>9896172
>brazilian
>literature
It's shit.
Just kidding. He's pretty good.
lol. Just kidding. I've never read him.
>>9896189
this
>>9896172
Dom Casmurro is good
I didn't like Quincas Borbas
Bras Cubas is fucking good
His short stories are amazing
Looking for nonfiction books about understanding addiction and drug addicts or even gambling addicts. I'm a nurse and this area interests me when dealing with patients. NOT looking for self-help books.
Payment: Cute duck
Not joking: Infinite Jest.
>>9896153
I Haven't read it yet but check out Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It's Public Domain too!
>>9896153
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull. The writing is academic and dry, but the research is fascinating.
Should Aristotle be Compulsory Reading In Schools?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5EHB5O6D9M&t=
>>9895887
No, but Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series should be.
>>9895894
Add Mein Kampf to that list
>>9895896
And Schopenhauer's On Women
How can I learn to read faster? I am usually really slow, and get distracted very easily. Ambient music helps sometimes, been listening to Brian Eno lately and really helps with removing sound distractions. What else can I do to read faster with more productivity?
you're gay
Just keep reading, your attention span will slowly increase. Background music will eventually feel like a distraction.