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Posting on 4chan is a waste of time.

if you want to be a professor, no. if you just want to learn philosophy, maybe - depends on what kind of learner you are.

Degrees are a waste of time. Self taught is the way to go.

Shit, did you knew the MIT has all it's courses for free on pdf?

cuz he's an edgelord

>marxist is a soulless creep

huh wow woudja look at that

Zizek is an attention whore, a beneficiary of the system he purports to hate.

>That there should be this isomorphism between Žižek’s thinking and contemporary capitalism is not surprising. After all, it is only an economy of the kind that exists today that could produce a thinker such as Žižek. The role of global public intellectual Žižek performs has emerged along with a media apparatus and a culture of celebrity that are integral to the current model of capitalist expansion

Why is anyone taken seriously in academia?

didn't she have some kind of academic relationship with derrida? in academics everything is like a monarchy where to be important you have to have had a perseonal relationship with someone else important...even pynchon has this...people are like "how can some stem major from the navy be so fucking good at writing" and then it gets explained away with "well nabokov taught some classes at cornell while pynchon was there so that's why he's so good"

>>9505439
This should be fun. Bunch of spergs who have never actually read her work discuss what is and what is not taken seriously in academia.

my diary desu
karakai jouzu no takagi-san
finnegans wake

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Mien kampf

The hobbit

Cujo

>You can only recommend 3 books,
citation needed

thanks, glad to be here

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>it gets worse here e'eryday

>>9505156
Lol

>>9504704
>why is western philosophy so caught up in binary notions?
I blame this chuckelfuck, though I'm sure you could just as easily blame Plato for introducing the world of eternal forms to contrast with particulars.

While I dont know much about the Other, it seems to have the same problem as such uselessly ambiguous ideas as:

>Forms
>Spirit
>Ideas (esp. in Descartes)
>Noumena
>Reason (esp. in Hegel)
>Will

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>>9504839
Sorry, forgot the image

>>9504704
>why is western philosophy so caught up in binary notions

Probably The Greeks and Christianity.

Notice how paganism had more of spectrum when it came to morality and the moral character of the deities. The monotheism comes along and its either hell/heaven, God/Satan, good/bad, sinner/blessed.

etc.

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>>9504681
Something is always lost in translation, so there isn't a single best one. A /lit/fag made a handy chart.

Personally I use NRSV mostly because it's the standard one used in academia, and is very readable.

>>9504688
What kind of differences are there between the denominations bibles?

>>9504707
Most obviously the canon, Catholics have more books than Protestants, Eastern Orthodox have more books than Catholics. Also differences in source texts, Eastern Orthodox use the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures for their Old Testament, Jews only use the standard Hebrew text that was settled on around 200 AD and ignore earlier sources like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Tobith, Maccabees

the new testament.. its false anyways

Leviticus - skip entirely, it'll send you to sleep
1 & 2 Chronicles - skim these, they're mostly name lists
Psalms - definitely read, but you don't have to go through all 150, find a list of the better known ones and read those
Sirach/Ecclesiasticus - skip, it's long and is basically a retread of proverbs

>>9504635
Tobit is hilarious and Maccabees are awesome. Ignore this guy.

>>9504577
>Frankfurt school
Take your cultural marxism back to /leftypol/

>>9504585

If anything, Habermas is a boring defender of the liberal-democratic status quo.

Quite far away from the subversive 'cultural marxism' you're imagining.

Habermas is fucking boring. Public sphere was cool, communicative action is fine if you're into milquetoast liberal basic bitch shit. But he's fucking BORING. That's the biggest problem. He's reactionarily centrist to the point that he has no identity whatsoever.

I was just talking about this with someone today. Sloterdijk even mentions eugenics, and Habermas calls fifteen people a fascist. Habermas calls his mailbox a fascist for having its arm up. Habermas visits countries where people drive on the right side of the road and has an aneurysm calling every passing car a fascist on the highway. Every fucking thing that isn't milquetoast liberalism is fascist.

He's boring. He's like a plastic card table. The world is rotting and smelling like shit all around us, there are a million loose threads to pull on, and he sits down and goes "nope, this seems fine, let's wallow in this tepid ass smell for eternity, also you're a fascist."

When you put it that way it's not really very impressive.

I have 500 IQ and I don't read books because they're for lesser minds

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Pic related, in my experience high IQ people are retards when it comes to culture and politics.

Bump since I'm interested too

Nick Land, Ligotti, True Detective, Houellebecq

>>9504406
>I've heard a lot about this person's particular influences
>I'd like to not read them, and instead purposefully ignore them and read other works similar (albeit much worse) until I finally lose interest and forget why I began reading in the first place
Go back to /v/

>>9504203
>Shakespeare or Tolstoy.

This is the most retarded thing. You can rate shit like the Odyssey, not even just particular editions of book, but just the story itself.

Like who's going to rate the Epic of Gilgamesh 3 stars?

>>9504211
That's the thing, the rating is meant to be in terms of personal enjoyment, not in terms of whether you think the book is worthy of its merit objectively,

>>9504211
Stop abusing the word like, you fucking nigger.

throw everything out but rilke

Austin bookstores are full of hipster shit marked up, except HPB, which usually has nothing

i do love bookpeople though, reading all those fucking shitty note-card reviews seriously make my day sometimes

>>9504096
That's some serious garbage you got there

>>9504140
>>9504155

reading these only made me smile bc theyre all actually great, so thank u guys

B O O K S
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>>9503956
As it was, so it shall be.

>>9503956
He was a socalist but he didn't like how the party got co-opted by retards and was opposed to the totalitarianism of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

>>9503879
Nice. I remember being amazed when I read Red Harvest at how taut it was.

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>>9503879
The last haul. 200 pages into smugglers. Having a good time. Mcelroy's books are fun.

>>9503879
Hammett is underrated. And Chandler has some of the best prose America has to offer.