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Searle or Derrida? Was the Algerian simply an obscurantist?
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i read arguments in threads like this to determine my answer
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Derrida is not an obscuratist anymore than laguage itself is obscurantist, and appeling to common sense only cheapens the role of the philosopher.
If anything all his work can be interpreted as an effort to to encourage anyone in taking responsibiliy when interpreting any text since what enables it to have a certain meaning it's the same engine on which lies the possibility of a different meaning.
But I'm not actually this debate other han some cursory reading here and there, so I can't really say who won, altough I enjoy how he got anglo philosophers their panties in a twist.
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heidegger v carnap 2.0?
>be me
>25 years old
>suddenly care much less about writing
>suddenly feel an INTENSE desire to marry and have kids
What the fuck is happening /lit/? Am I being spooked? How do I cleanse myself of these ideological impurities?
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Read him
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>>9573159
I've read Schopenhauer. I've read a ton of of pessimists, anti-natalists etc and I consider myself one of them. But I recently was encouraged to quit work for a while and focus on my writing but my first reaction was to think "my Oneitis wouldn't marry me if I did that". It's retarded I know, but I feel like I've been tamed and ideologically overwhelmed to the point where I just want to be a weary guy who works long hours for his wife and family and wears jeans and loose shirts and harbours private convictions as to the inevitability of poverty for the majority of the proletariat. What the FUCK is happening? I want a comfy house and a cute gentle wife and children who laugh and encourage the finer aspects of my character.
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>>9573153
The mood will pass, sir.
QUICKLY
POST YOUR FAVORITE VONNEGUT NOVEL
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>>9573119
Favorite? Like it's a competition
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>favourite
>vonnegut
>novel
Maybe you would be better off on reddot, you fucking faggot
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>>9573128
If he's good enough for Bloom, anon, he's good enough for you
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Hey /lit/ what do you think of my high school literature?
It has been a few years and I will probably throw them away when I move out. It's not all books, for example we also read 1984 and such, but a decent part of them. I admit that I haven't read books in a long time and even back then only looked up summaries on the internet. So I am curious about what assumably well read people have to say.
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>>9572987
Just send them to me instead of throwing them out, anon
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>>9572987
Yo can I get your copy of Lolita, Dorian Gray, and Waiting for Godot? If you're gonna throw em out, I'll take those 3 off your hands.
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>Wolf Haas
Austria/10
Why did he think that ancient Greece was the pinnacle of civilization? What made it so good and worth striving for?
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thesis-antithesis-sysnthesis
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>>9572880
MUH FREEDOM
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He started with the Greeks.
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How does this make you feel?
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This will go down as one of the most influential books of our time.
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I don't have any strong feelings about it because that would be silly.
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No it won't, it will be forgotten in a couple of years
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I don't read much poetry beyond what is required in school. Can someone explain how her poetry isn't just writing something and then pressing enter at random times
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Do I have to be a pervert to be a good writer?
>Joyce
>Chaucer
>Nabokov
>Henry Miller
>Roth
>Pynchon
Al of these guys are highly admired here and were sexually perverse. I feel like great minds in literature are by and large sexually perverse with fetishes that are quite strange or not publicly accepted in the least. Do I need to have fetishes that are unacceptable to normies?
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>>9572512
>no Kafka on this list
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Cherry-picking. Was Dante, or Vergilius, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Gogol, Flaubert, Melville, especially perverted?
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>>9572533
Yes
Why aren't white print books more popular? I find white print on dark pages much easier on my shitty eyes
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>>9571906
same
melanin enriched paper is too patrician for book companies to print
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>>9571906
Cost
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>>9571906
>all that fucking ink and money wasted so your shitty beta eyes don't get sore
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>born incredibly wealthy with patrician parents in one of the greatest intellectual/cultural periods in German history, which happens to be one of the most patrician countries in world history
>born with IQ of around 220
>born incredibly majestic and handsome
>gets a perfectly streamlined education with the sole purpose of crafting a genius, allowing him to pursue many things that he loved
>spend childhood reading literature, learning languages, painting, watching plays and puppet shows, all under the care of loving and intelligent parents
>enters university early and effortlessly starts an amazing academic career
>easily writes one of the greatest german novels in 4 weeks time
>becomes the greatest known book in germany and he becomes a literary superstar at 25, the whole country admiring his literary talent
>woos countless beautiful women with his innate charisma and intelligence at the drop of a hat
>spends the rest of his days in a wealthy mansion, writing poems, exploring scientific interests whenever he wants, playing around with politics for fun, travelling to different countries and effortlessly wooing exotic women, and getting worshipped by the intellectuals of his day because of his incredible genius
>writes the indisputable masterpiece of German literature
>dies happy and content at a very old age
>becomes perhaps the greatest figure in German history, leaves behind an incredible legacy, named by Nietzsche as the only example of the Ubermensch in history, ranked as the smartest person of all time, all out of just doing his hobbies that he loved and found fun his whole life
Is it possible to more live life on easy mode?
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don't forget
>charms the emperor of france: voila un homme
goethe had a good life
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>>9571860
still gotta put dat pen to paper, bud
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>>9571860
>pederast
>ubermensch
Pick one.
Intellectuals in the 18th Century:
>Johann Wolfgang Goethe
>David Hume
>Adam Smith
>Francis Bacon
>Edmund Burke
>Edward Gibbon
>Thomas Paine
>Thomas Hobbes
>Immanuel Kant
>Gottfried Leibniz
>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
>Isaac Newton
>Jean-Jacques Rousseau
>Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Intellectuals in the 21st Century:
>Katie Hopkins
>Richard Spencer
>Stefan Molyneux
>Owen Jones
>John Oliver
>Bill Mahler
>Alex Jones
>Christopher and Peter Hitchens
>Neil Degrasse Tyson
>Richard Dawkins
>Gavin Mcinnes
>Thunderfoot
>Sargon of Akkad
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you forgot joe rogan
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>>9571666
Don't worry, I didn't!
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>>9571664
I won't deny there has been a massive decline, but I love how the people who make these kinds threads don't keep up with actual 21st-century high culture---there are still good philosophers, good music, good literature, good film, and so in being created all the time.
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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Old Man's War Edition
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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any cyberpunk fans itt
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>>9571588
Book Review: Old Man’s War | THE INK SLINGER
>https://inkslingerblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/book-review-old-mans-war/
REVIEW: OLD MAN’S WAR
>https://surrealtimepress.com/2013/09/02/review-old-mans-war/
SF REVIEWS.NET: Old Man's War / John Scalzi
>http://www.sfreviews.net/oldmanswar.html
Book Review: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi | Best Science Fiction Blog
>http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/blog/old-mans-war-by-john-scalzi/
Old Man’s War, 10 Years On | Tor.com
>http://www.tor.com/2015/08/11/john-scalzi-old-mans-war-10-years-on/
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represent ! cyberbro
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I don't buy the whole "fiction is just escapism/entertainment" line, because whenever I finish reading a novel I feel like an altered person. But I'm not so sure I know why.
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We use fiction as a map for what to do in our own lives. Using what characters do as inspiration for situations we have run into in the past, problems we're dealing with now, or future problems.
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>>9570913
Do you have autism?
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it allows us to experience something. that experience obviously depends on what you're reading, but real-life experience alters you, so can a fictional experience
I tried to get answers on /his/ but had no luck.
I've recently become interested in a more classical form of education. How could one follow the Trivium nowadays? Does anyone know where I can find a rubric or a book to get me started?
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you've read this i assume
made me wish i had had more stern nuns in my education tbqh
http://media.evolveconsciousness.org/books/consciousness/The%20Trivium%20-%20The%20Liberal%20Arts%20of%20Logic,%20Grammar,%20and%20Rhetoric%20-%20Sister%20Mirriam%20Joseph.pdf
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it's a meme
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>>9570794
Don't forget the Quadrivium (which I will now attempt to recite from memory, looking it up afterwards). These two category groups combine to form the ancient conception of the Liberal Arts.
Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.
OP, the answer to your question is another question: do you want to actually learn and understand these things, or do you simply want the historical version of how they were understood that the time when the trivium and the quadrivium were things? If the latter, then just meme it up with Aristotle and Aquinas and such. If you want to actually learn useful and valid things instead beyond the intrigue of history, then read modern texts instead.
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Do you finish books even if you find them boring? What if they're highly praised "classic" books?
I have spent most of the past two years not reading at all because I've started boring books that I feel like I have to finish or else people will call me a pleb.
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I stop. Life isn't a school exam. Hated Master and Margarita, some others I can't recall.
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>>9570799
Ironically I (OP) really liked that book when reading it despite all allegories going over my head. I even read it back when I was much newer to reading.
I have given up on a tale of two cities early on twice. I persevered halfway through Nicholas Nickleby but it was just so awful I had to postpone it. I'm now about three quarters through the brothers Karamazov and it is horrendous
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I just keep rotating between books. I'll never read everything I want to in my lifetime. Some of my best reads have been difficult ones though.
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can anyone recommend books on insanity and schizophrenia?
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>>9570555
my diary desu
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>>9570555
my diary desu
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>>9570555
HTB