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So, who is the greatest Jewish writer ever?
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spinoza
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It would have to be Kafka, right?
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husserl and freud
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>he isn't /fit/lit/
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>tfw /fat/lit/
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>tfw cant read in bed because of pec tear
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Right Wing/Fascist Literature
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What are some good philosophical or political texts that form a basis for a conservative, authoritarian or even outright fascist socio-political order?
It seems that the liberals are winning the culture war on all fronts. Government, immigration, race, gender, family laws: you name it, the pendulum seems to be swinging towards the left.
I have had debates with a few liberals but I can't seem to come with good logical responses to their arguments. What should I read to remedy this /lit/?
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Evola. Have fun realising that any sincere fascist would throw todays right wingers in front of a firing squad.
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>>9526412
>I can't seem to come with good logical responses to their arguments.
Gee I wonder why that could be
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Read Catholics. Pius IX, de Maistre, Alisdair MacIntyre.
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Is it just me or is this board filled with post-Christian values and its twin brother post-modern narcissism (and why is so predominant within „literature people“)?
No its not me. This board is representative of the shit state of "Western world".
Why dont you stop being an angsty druggie narcissist (=a cuck basically) and embrace Jesus? (or at least put your money where you mouth is and be an authentic nihilist with some non neutered balls).
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I had a friend who would drink every day and drop acid and stay up all night even if he had work or class the next morning because he thought people would look at how disheveled he was and think it was cool/pity him for being such a tortured soul
He's on medication now and a lot better but still an atheist lmao
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>and think it was cool/pity him for being such a tortured soul
have any black white portraits?
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Because the supernatural isn't real. But authentically defining your own values and living by them is difficult.
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books about apathetic men walking around
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we had a talk the other day but never made a definitive list. add some and if there are enough, we can make a chart.
>the stranger
>amsterdam stories
>sun also rises
>hindoo holiday
>a way of life, like any other
>this side of paradise
>nausea
>notes from underground
>steppenwolf
>berlin stories
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>siddhartha (kind of)
>catcher in the rye
>A hero of our time (kind of)
>No longer human (kind of)
>crime and punishment (although not really apathetic)
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Hunger by Hamsun is literally the quintessential "apathetic man walking around" - book.
It's also sardonically funny.
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you cant win - jack black
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Thinking about becoming a socialist. What's some good socialist literature?
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The Soul of Man under Socialism - Oscar Wilde
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
If you want theory, start with Wage Labour and Capital. Don't read the Communist Manifesto.
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The Gospels
Book of Acts
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If you have a decent grasp of classical political theory, especially Rousseau, start with the utopians: Fourier, Saint-Simon, Owen.
After that Proudhon and then Marx.
Of course if you want to skip the foundations you can dive right into Marx, but I feel like classical political theory and utopians actually have a lot to offer, especially in areas where Marx' theories are a bit lackluster, such as his conception of the state and his productivism.
Orwell is a hack and a liberal in disguise. If you're interested in anti-authoritarian socialism read Bakunin, Kropotkin and Malatesta after Marx.
Most of these people have a few main works which should be easy to find out.
As for Marx & Engels, a good selection of texts is this one: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/progress-publishers/one-volume.htm
Especially if you're philosophically interested you should also read Marx' early works, the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts in particular.
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Lots of great writers don't make any money. Lots of bad writers make a ton of money.
I've decided to become a hack writer. If I write 20 bullshit books, at least one of them is going to be a best seller and make me a millionaire.
What are some tips on writing faster and filling out more pages. Should I just describe everything in way more detail like Stephen King does? Make the characters run around for no reason? Needless sex scenes?
Help me become a hack!
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shitpost on /lit/
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Useless sex scenes, anime-esque, add lots of memes
Sell it to the 4chan generation
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No. Listen. 50 Shades is hack writing but that lady made $100 million, okay? So being a hack is profitable. How can I be a hack?
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>How badly can a student write in his third year of university attendance? This badly:
>"The largest controversy within the Waco case was where the fire originated from, claiming that the tear gas is not powerful enough to create one. Assumptions were undergoing the process that the Davidians set fire to themselves inside the ranch, due to the fact that the ATF and FBI assured the weapons capability were not powerful enough to do so."
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2016/04/why-many-college-students-never-learn-how-to-write-sentences/
>Calkins is one of the original architects of the “workshop” approach to teaching writing to children, which holds that writing is a process, with distinct phases, and that all children, not just those with innate talent, can learn to write well. According to the project web site, books by its leaders are “widely regarded as foundational to language arts education throughout the English-speaking world.”
>“What’s most important to me,” explained a project staff member during the open house, “are social issues. I teach fiction writing to teach social justice.” She went on to describe her methodology: “I tell students that they must always first start with an issue—gender discrimination, racism, poverty—not a character. Then we create a character around the issue.” She explained that she instructed children to plot the story from start to finish before setting out, telling them to be certain to alternate between “incident, dialogue, incident, dialogue.” While virtually all professional writers of fiction describe the element of surprise and discovery as central to the process, this teacher takes an alternate view: “By the time children begin to write, they know exactly what their characters will do and say. The point is, there should be no surprises when you sit down to write fiction.”
>The leader then projected copies of student papers on the wall, where we read several stories about bullying, gender discrimination, etc. The stories were impressively written, although they seemed, after a while, to sound almost uniform; without exception, each protagonist was a victim of some kind.
>Beginning in kindergarten, children are to regard books as objects of study. They are asked, for example, to compare two books and try to figure out which characters have a “worse life”; make a “study” of Frog and Toad books; or debate whether Enchantress from the Stars is fiction or fantasy. Children are asked to keep track—on Post-its, or other diagramming material—of the ways characters’ lives resemble their own. Indeed, project methods require a vast array of accoutrements: charts, matrixes, Venn diagrams, page numbers, graphs, reading marathons, bookmarks, book corners, book bags, book celebrations, jazzed up “book talk,” and great discussions about how to live “readerly lives.”
http://educationnext.org/the-lucy-calkins-project/
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Standards of writing even at the PhD level at prestigious universities are really fucking bad these days. What you might expect to be the average writing skill of state school undergrads is the norm among high level PhD students. With dips into worse quality.
It really is amazing how we've institutionalized mediocrity. All these people are private school educated too.
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Why are children being taught this ideology?
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>>9524879
Bloody postmodern relying on neomarxism.
It's divide and conquer under the premise of diversity.
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Phenomenology of perception 2017-05-19 07:34:57 Post No.9524761
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Phenomenology of perception
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Why does nobody talk about this? It's one of the best philosophical work I've read. Mind-blowing.
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>>9524761
because /lit/ memes everything it hasn't read as "too hard and pointless" and since they didn't open the first chapter they don't know it's comfy fun and interesting. MP really doesn't deserve the rep he gets from /lit/
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seems legit.
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>>9524772
I've never seen anyone on /lit/ reference Merleau-Ponty other than recommending him.
Joyce seemed like he was a walking encyclopaedia of literature
How the FUCK could one man have read so much and retained so much?
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he started with the cliques
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He actually read books instead of shitposting about them on the Internet.
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>>9524397
There wasnt internet (Porn) / WhatsApp are her time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2ZGSX0cIE
>I hope I will be alive, at least me with my heart problems, 10 years from now
tfw Zizek is gonna die within our lifetimes
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Reposting from the other thread.
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He's the only leftist I have respect for, and he's pretty much the last of the 20th century vanguard left.
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>>9524179
Mortality is a scary idea when you are old. At least there is the comfort that you lived long enough to age.
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Has a book ever made you cry?
I see "booktubers" crying about shitty YA fantasy bullshit all the time, but I have honestly never read a book that has brought physical tears to my eyes.
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there have been one or two that brought me close. but I'm also an emotionless freak.
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>>9524019
Same desu, a couple have come close but never have broken the waters
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Share your most pleb literary opinions.
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The Great Gatsby's prose makes it almost unreadable
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Finnegans Wake is more trouble than it's worth.
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I've read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville and others, yet for the life of me I just can't read Dickens, I struggle with everything he writes. I found myself constantly going back to re-read pages because I just completely blanked out reading them. Tale of Two Cities was the worst, I had literally no idea what was going on until the very end, and even then I've forgotten every character involved.
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Why haven't you read Giorgio Agamben? 2017-05-19 01:16:18 Post No.9523826
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Why haven't you read Giorgio Agamben?
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because its not on our top 100 chart? whats the point of this thread. im confused
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>>9523826
I've got The Coming Community. Not sure I really grasped it all. Some of his epistemology about Parts, Wholes, Exceptions and Examples was kind of neat.
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Because I'm not a communist.
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Why have anyone besides the narrator and Marlow on the ship nobody else even does anything besides the unnamed guy who told Marlow to shut up.
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LOL FUNNY MEME SPELLING WRONG
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I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read for school. its main character is a young man who starts working in manufacturing. pretty sure he operates a crane. at the start of the book he gets hazed by the older workers there, they smear tar all over his balls after work and make him walk home like that
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>>9523735
Have you been reading my diary desu?