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Why is it that nobody seems to understand Stirner?
It seems like people only try to appropriate his ideas to try and further their own beliefs (trying to categorize him as pro-socialism or pro-capitalism, for example).
Why is Stirner so hard for people to digest?
People on this board use him to defend christianity too. it's hilarious
Egoism was a mistake 2bh.
Because they didn't read him. They only know that there is something called "spook" and use it in the sense of "something you like that I don't like" and not in any way put forward by Stirner. Nevermind that his book talks much more about property than spooks, for example.
>>9499347
i just the ego and his own, what can i expect
french literature thread.
i'l start the discussion
okay, go ahead and start
I've started reading Satre's novels and boy are they bad.
There's only so much I can blame on the translation, I'm glad it has become not only acceptable but fashionable to shit on post-modernism because not only is his writing somehow both mundane and obscene, it always reads as subtly masochistic.
I know people who study things like politics and religion and they rave about 20th century french intellectuals but I now feel comfortable not spending my mortality on those shits. Derrida, Foucault, all of them can fucking eat a dick, France's contributions are wildly overrated.
I made this same mistake trying to read Baudelaire. I keep thinking everyone can't be wrong - surely France, in it's entirety doesn't lack talent but the deeper you go, the more inescapable that very conclusion becomes.
>>9499914
Both insightful and well-argued. Thank you anon.
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why did he wear the patch again?
was he strabismic or something?
(not a bainpost)
>>9499181
He was a big fan of Metal Gear Solid
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>This is what kids are reading nowadays.
How does that make you feel?
Why should I care?
15 years ago they were reading Hairy Sharter, and before that some other low-brow shit.
why would i be surprised by that?
kids like tolkien and cs lewis too.
big shock
They've been reading worse.
Do you think that Kafka's father actually was as ruthless and tough as he described? Or do you think that Kafka simply was an overly sensitive boy? Personally I tend to think that his father was an asshole, but I can't come to a conclusion because I don't have enough life experience to judge how a man should treat his children.
He wasn't a monster or anything, but Kafka clearly felt alienated and confused by his father's lack of understanding.
>Kafka describes his dad as "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature"
>Kafka's protagonists are all betas
>Kafka's father was a professional slaughterer
>Kafka became a vegetarian
Just sayin
>>9498674
I ready an biography on him recently, but only one, so it's all I have to go on.
It seemed like he created the alienation with his father intentionally. A lot of his life seems to be self-imposed torment which he used as a tool in his writing.
Also his father exerted a lot of pressure on him re: working, having a family, being a man, etc., but a lot of that pressure was subtle.
Did he really want to fuck his mom?
Don't you?
>>9498661
his mom?
>>9498659
You know, for every analytical essay about how Hamlet secretly wanted t fuck his mom, I bet there's at least one about how was secretly gay.
And that fact makes me mad.
I want to be a huge sellout and write a trilogy of YA books that gets adapted into a low-grade quadrilogy of shitty movies. What elements do I need besides a pretty protagonist with no personality, a love triangle, and all adults being evil or useless?
The initiative to do it on your own without having to ask /lit/ for help doing what's really not a complicated thing. You think you're doing it because it's a way to make money despite it being beneath you, when really you're actually below than the writers of those works who didn't have to ask.
>>9498347
at least two non-binary characters, lots of gays and people of color
If you aren't already a woman, adopt a female pen name
ITT: /summer/core lit. Post, rec, even rate.
Hi Oprah!
>How to Kill a Mockingbird
>gives no instructions at all about killing mockingbirds
>>9498312
You know, as much as I didn't enjoy this book, it's excellent for summer
How exactly and why does Kant assert the possibility of a noumena?
From my basic understanding, he brings forth the supposition that certain forms of our cognition form categories which we apply to define our perception of the world and reality, thus presenting a certain bias of the same, but even taking this into consideration, what prevents one to assert that our forms of perception are beyond accurately comprehending the reality of the world as it stands?
>>9498282
Because every noumenal object is perceived through our senses, and thus inaccurate and unreliable. Only certain categories, such as mathematics, space and time, are a priori analytical (existing/knowledgeable without the intervention of our senses thus accurate)
>>9498301
>thus inaccurate and unreliable
Why exactly indicates that this is certainly the case? What is to prevent a claim that our senses form a genuine perspective of the world?
>>9498301
wtf no none of this is correct.
Post some of the greatest works of the 2010's. I haven't read that many desu senpaitachi.
The instructions - Adam Levin
The dying grass - William T Vollmann
Cannonball - Joseph Mcelroy
The buried giant- Kazuo Ishiguro
The instructions will be the only one remembered though.
>>9498043
You guys haven't finished reading the Greeks yet or what?
>>9498043
>The instructions will be the only one remembered though.
that's not how you spell the buried giant anon
>>9498131
The general public didn't like that one though. Maybe you are right. Ishiguro is more likely to be remembered on the whole. His books are great. Really love remains, unconsoled and never let me go.
I know this board has a hate boner for Foucault, but I'm in the middle of writing a final on him and need some help.
I'm currently trying to synthesize a single theory of sociological post-modernism by combining the theories of Foucault and Ulrich Beck. So far I've found commonalities in their orientation of society on maximizing the control that the individual can exert as well as their belief that post-modernism is marked by a breakdown in our faith of rationalism.
I'm really struggling here to create a third piece but I know it exists. Anyone have any insights into Foucault's theories? Does he say anything really intelligent about growing individualization in the contemporary world that I missed or something about transnationalism?
>>9497978
Have you heard of Zygmunt Bauman?
>reading self-help books by a fucking turtle
Can we have an actual discussion about this book?
You want to start us off, shitdick?
>>9497942
What's it about?
>>9497948
A guide to cleaning your room
>spend 10 minutes writing a highly detailed, highly descriptive scene with a lot of action, a lot of tension, build up and eroticism for my roleplay partner
>they respond "i stand there feeling very sexy"
Holy fucking shit. Anyone else know this feel?
>>9497929
>I reply with a yes
no lol
I've never even kissed a woman.
This guy is based
Being and Time isn't even that hard if you take notes. You don't need more than a pretty basic concept of what philosophy was before him because he is poiting at the axiom in which it all was based. He is almost pedagogical in this sense.
Why aren't you reading him?
Are there any books/authors that critic him and his work?
What are your thoughts on his work?
>>9497845
You've probably consistently misunderstood him.
>>9497858
What makes you say that?
>>9497882
Because he is unanimously considered hard by the academic comunity in its entirety.
If you really think he's easy to understand, and that you need no prior knowledge of philosophy, chances are that you've just misinterpreted him.