Essays

Have 3 - On the Genealogy of Morals

Read these senpai:

Essays on Idleness - Kenko
The Essays - Montaigne
Moralia - Plutarch

>>7595442
Orwell has some good essays.
Politics and the English Language
Inside the Whale
Shooting an Elephant

Thank you!

Huxley has some cool essays on expanding and studying the mind with hallucinogens - The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell.

If you've read any Nietzsche, then you should read Camus' The Rebel.

>>7595585
Orwells essays are better than his novels. Animal Farm and 1984 are over-taught in American schools because they think it's critical of socialism.

>>7595448
Seconding Montaigne

Favorite essayist by far and, as a lover of literature, you'll find you sympathize with many of his assertions. He's very humble and never makes the reader feel inadequate. I'd recommend reading every essay but I particularly enjoy On Experience, On Cannibals, and On Education.

bumping dis

Lester Bangs- Peter Laughner is Dead


It's always been a potent essay for me, because the relationship between Bangs and Laughner and his subsequent realization that his self-destructive lifestyle wasn't worth living closely parallels events in my life. Evidently Bangs didn't actually follow through on that final promise, but as an essay it impacted me.

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Rock of Ages; 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38
>incisive, lucid essays on American identity in the 1960s

Simon Leys - An Empire of Ugliness
>I have never seen a book review that so utterly vivisected someone as Simon Leys does with this piece against Christopher Hitchens

Peter Stark - The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death
>the best demonstration of how to properly strike a balance between science writing and literary writing

Those are all that come to mind at the moment.

'Consider the Lobster' and 'Host' by David Foster Wallace. First is a piece of travel writing that discusses the ethical dillemma of eating lobster, and second is about his experience and observations on the set of a right wing Limbaugh-style radio station.

>>7595732
Just want to add that while The Doors of Perception is strictly about his first experience with mescaline, Heaven and Hell isn't solely about mind expansion via hallucinogenic drug use but also meditation and self-hypnosis. His whole idea of the Mind-at-Large is interesting, though.

>>7595448
I would like to read the Essays on Idleness but I can't find them anywhere.

>>7598510
Here let me fix that for you
https://archive.org/details/essaysinidleness00reppuoft

Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Barthes - Death of the Author
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Foucault - What is An Author
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Miller - The Critic as Host
Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy

http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/iWrNbwkv/file.html

>>7598510
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0141192100/ref=s9_simh_gw_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=mobile-1&pf_rd_r=0AF82K7RWK70DN40B1ZB&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=507564347&pf_rd_i=mobile

>>7598563
thanks a lot.

>>7598870
>http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/iWrNbwkv/file.html
wow thanks

>>7595442
Orwell essays are god-tier. Shooting an elephant, Decline of the English Murder, The Moon Under Water, Politics and The English Language.

Hitchens's essays in Mortality are good too.

>>7598870
Where to start?

Montaigne
GK Chesterton
Joan Didion
DFW

>>7599955
Historically:
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Barthes - Death of the Author
Foucault - What is An Author
Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Miller - The Critic as Host

Thematically:
I Structuralist, Post-structuralist, Linguistics
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Barthes - Death of the Author
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy

II Deconstruction:
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Miller - The Critic as Host

III Psychoanalysis:
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style

IV Politics, Ideology, Cultural History:
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Foucault - What is An Author
Orwell - Politics and the English Language

>>7600180
Cheers lad

Bumping for more

Any for Aesthetics/Aesthetic Experience?

>>7600180
Wow good help there!

Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
http://pastebin.com/U8KDUMuq

Poetic Origins and Final Phases by Harold Bloom
http://pastebin.com/pfMfuRyC

Crisis [in Orientalism] by Edward Said
http://pastebin.com/ieFdyXJ8

Sorties by Hélène Cixous
http://pastebin.com/qxy2yMA8

>>7595442
Thinkability by Martin Amis is my favorite essay.

>>7595442
Quite a few of Schopenhauer's. On Psychology, On Ethics, On Aesthetics, On Religion are all good.

anything derrida ;^)

>>7595442
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-as-a-cold-place-to-be