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What contribution did Hegelian historicism and British political economy make to Marx’s political thought?
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She got a fat pussy
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Pretty much everything minus the influence early Greek philosophers had on him.
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>>9460868
>you will never lick her asshole
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Haruki Murakami - Men Without Women
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One week to go. Also "Killing Commodore" when?
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>>9460685
that's an ugly cover. WTF happened to his covers lately? they look like a passionate graphic designer took shrooms and pissed on a blender.
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god knoe. Have you seen Killing Commodore cover? Its just sword horizontaly on cover.
Pic releated when they were good
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>>9460685
The only good story on that collection is the one with Gregor Samsa.
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>and this is true, as may ascertain, if you will leave philosophy and go on to higher things: for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life. Even if a man has good parts, still, if he carries philosophy into later life, he is necessarily ignorant of all those things which a gentlemen and a person of honor ought to know; he is inexperienced in the laws of the States, and in the language which ought to be used in the dealings of man with man, whether private or public, and utterly ignorant of the pleasures and desires of mankind and of human character in general.
You literally can't argue against this.
>If I see him continuing the study in later life, and not leaving off, I should like to beat him, Socrates; for, as I was saying, such a one, even though he have good natural parts, becomes effeminate. He flies from the busy centre and the marketplace, in which, as the poet says, men become distinguished; he creeps into a corner for the rest of his life, and talks in a whisper with three or four admiring youths, but never speaks out like a freeman in a satisfactory manner.
Will /lit/ ever recover??
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>>9460502
>In the Republic Socrates becomes Callicles
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Joke's on you, I'm living the dream as a sophist.
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>>9460502
>even though he have good natural parts
Is it a thing in formal English to change the tense of the verb to he/she/it when speaking of a nonspecific person?
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Have any of you read this? I had to quit after around 350'ish pages. I just couldn't do it anymore. I think I understand what he was trying to do, but, damn, it's just so long and nothing at all happens. (I haven't read his Catch-22)
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>>9460336
>Something Happened
>nothing at all happens
Really makes you think
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Something Happened was the sequel to Catch-22. Why would you do this?
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>>9460336
>not quitting at 100 pages
No writer, writing at his best, would let 100 pages go by without showing you something.
This novel sucked because no editor had the balls to tell the author of Catch-22 that his ideas were dull. Even Heller himself was probably overconfident in his writing. Just look at the page count.
Thinkers who have most influenced or have made impression on you
Hobbes, Diogenes, Wittgenstein
Nietzsche, Marx, Kauffman
Thomas, Heidegger, Linkola
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>>9460261
>that list
virgin detected
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Is this the first step to leaving humanity behind?
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this is going to be a great thread, I'm sure
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Death is the one step to leaving humanity.
Nietzsche's tragic figure should only make you want to go out and meet people, even if superficially, and be thankful for life.
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Is this the first step to leaving humanity behind?
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is there a way to enjoy old English lit without seeming contrived?
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Yes. By enjoying it without contrivance.
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What do you mean?
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>thread about old English
>OP's pic is medieval french, other pic is old German
what
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Offiial /lit/ Meta Thread: One Per Board Rule
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We've now reached the point where every single thread on the entire board, every last one, is either:
>a shitpost like "was socrates a meme?"
>non-content shit like "Where do you like to read?" or "Do you prefer hardcovers or paperbacks?"
>shallow shit like "What is /lit/'s opinion of this book?" or "Should I read this book?"
Not a single thread on the entire board is discussing literature or philosophy meaningfully. This is no longer the Literature board.
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>>/his/
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>>9459719
Post it on your blog loser
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Good evening /lit.
I know the board has been riddled with degeneracy lately, but can we for once rise above the memes and discuss the value of reading.
The fact that this board has such a healthy population speaks for itself. What I would like to know what personal value has reading offered you? Perhaps the amount one reads relates to different benefits.
Enlighten me.
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>>9459675
Better entertainment than tv
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There's no such thing as value, fuck off you legalist cuck.
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>>9459675
Its both a good source of knowledge, entertainment, focus and intellectual training. It also gives me the feeling that Im not wasting my life when I finish a book.
/Istilldontknowhowtousespoilers/ It makes me feel better than those who don't read and much more than to those who do read but lit has taught me that they read crap.
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What do you consider well read? If, having never read a single novel in my whole life, I chose 10 fiction and 10 non fiction books from internet articles, would you consider me well read? I'm talking about articles that list famous books "that everyone should read before they die." I haven't finished the list yet but it includes some titles like A Tale of Two Cities, Art of War, A Brief History of Time, LotR, The Stand... Pic semi-related, its my Library of sad, unfinished books.
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Read whatever you want, dude
No one cares if you're well read or not. You read because you like it, not because you want to be "well read" because that's a meme
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No it takes a lot more than 10 books to be considered well read, and triple that if you're reading pleb-tier crap like what you mentioned.
More like at least 10 books from each major country/time period.
If you read 10 Greek books, 10 Russians, French, Americans, Germans etc + 10 philosophy books then maybe you're pretty well read.
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Sad shelf, what too much approval seeking must look like.
redpill me on evola
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just read him, anon.
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>>9459616which book
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>>9459555
more like ebola
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Is Shakespeare better watched or read?
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watched. but read him too, anon.
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>>9459546
Read
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>>9459546
Read
Listen
Watch
definitive power rankings
of course once you've read, studied, internalized, listened it opens up the proper watching experience
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What does /lit/ think of Knausgaard? I'm reading picrelated and it's very comfy. Much better than most contemporary literature imho.
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>I spend hours of my day reading the in-depth autobiography of a man who benefits financially and socially as a consequence of my doing so
Do you realize how cucked you are?
Lying there on your belly kicking your heels in the air while some guy tells you at length about his family and how he made out with some girl in a sauna aged eleven? Very pathetic imo.
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>>9459436
my thoughts on knausgaard exactly
it's also more proof that if you're not a pussy magnet then you don't understand humans enough to be a successful writer
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>>9459433
While I can accept that there's something of a writer's fantasy about it, being able to just write without filter or much editing, I think it's mostly the product of effective marketing. Without the backstory of its writing, I don't think it would have made near the splash that it has.
More technically, there are some striking passages in the first volume. The description of the father's flat and the effort to clean it was very very good. The tactility of the mess and the physical effort needed to clean it becomes a wonderful objective correlative for the narrator's relationship with his father and the struggle in memory. That said, I think too much of it is numbingly mundane and sloppily written. It needs an editor and a couple more drafts.
Lots of people like it a lot and that's good. I didn't like it, however.
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I feel like reading something that's in the same premise as "Life is Strange" the videogame. Just teens in high school trying to solve a murder.
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No suggestions but does anyone know any similar games? LIS made my year.
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This game's main selling point was supposed to be its story, and its story was atrocious. Why do people like it?
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>>9459517
It was comfy like Twin Peaks
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Opinions on His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman?
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TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
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Shitty book written by a militant atheist. I can't believe I enjoyed this as a kid.
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Never read it. Saw the movie. Thought it sucked.