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>Homo
Seems like essential reading for someone like you.

>>9222399
so it's basically all of Agamben's major works? shit, now I want it

>>9222399
Do it or i'll kill you

>>9222395
you know they have this system where you request books on the library's website, and they'll send it to your library from a "lending library". typically this makes many more novels available, even rarer ones. my mom used to do that until i bought her a kindle.

>>9222401
it may not be called "lending library" but i'm sure your librarian will know what the fuck i'm talking about.

>>9222401

I searched the index there was fuck all. A single Plato book in the entire region. But don't get me wrong I understand supply and demand, they're not gonna stock shit nobody reads, just don't tell me libraries are viable for serious readers.

my diary desu

bump though

frege
russell.

but actually you are better of learning linguistics aspects of things before trying attempt constructing an idea of language.

>>9222219
Should've mentioned probably Frege and Russell with Wittg, my mistake.

>>9222156

>read it a while ago
>I didn't get it
>therefore it's overrated

really activates my prefrontal cortex

prove yourself right dickhead

>>9222156
>I didn't get it
Read it again or stfu.

People throw shit at Holden, forgetting that he's meant to be a teenager. Like most people were ever completely rational at that age.

People who say he was a spoiled brat are missing the point of the book.

"People throw shit at Holden". This is true.
"forgetting that he's meant to be a teenager". What does this mean exactly? Because he's a teenager, he's meant to be a teenager? What he is "meant" to be is irrelevant in that it doesn't really matter. Age seems to be a very easy filter when considering someone's views as valid. "people who say he was a spoiled brat are missing the point of the book". This is true my buddy. Wouldn't you agree that focusing on the age is a copout?

>>9222237
>What does this mean exactly? Because he's a teenager, he's meant to be a teenager?
He's a teenager, not just temporally, but in regard to his personality, temper, world view etc.

>Age seems to be a very easy filter when considering someone's views as valid
I'm not saying he's right. Just that the common critiques don't give any reason to dismiss the book as a whole.

>Wouldn't you agree that focusing on the age is a copout?
Not at all, considering the themes that are present.

>>9221962
I agree. Fuck the Greeks. Start with the Bible.

>>9221962

>Implying something is objectively wrong with slavery

this is a rare vintage of bait, to be enjoyed slowly. 10/10.

>>9221962
>Implying that a mountain of distracting sub-disciplines and pseudo-translations of repetitious crap makes for a better worldview

Didn't mean to fuck up that post, still drugged up

genesis
exodus
levitcus
numbers
deuteronomy
joshua
judges
ruth
1 samuel
2 samuel

>>9221534

Walden, Thoreau
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky
Proposed Roads to Freedom, Bertrand Russell
Leaves of Grass, Whitman
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing 4th Edition
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Bartleby, the Scrivener, Melville
The Trial, Kafka
Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse

Do you live in the first world? This is normal.

>>9221415
I know, but it still feels humiliating and, I don't know, unmanly, whatever that means. Anyway I don't want to talk too much about myself, I'm mostly just looking for a book recommendation that might deal with a similar idea

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>tfw physically impossible for me to cry because my tear ducts dried up

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>>9221239
>as if catholicism will survive the decade
>posting a picture of CNN
>denouncing Catholicism

Gee, what a surprise.

>>9221239
Wait I thought married men could already become Priests

>>9221246
Deacons, if blessed by a priest prior to delivering sermons I believe

>implying 'uni stuff' means something other than fucking someone much more attractive than you
Leave the books alone.

>>9221147
>caring about women after high school

Do people really do this? Don't you have higher pursuits to occupy yourself with?

>>9221147
i shot a book with a pellet just now, i made a thread on it. it was satisfying. i burned the sot-weed factor once. but in regards to your dilemma, i'd just say to hell with women. if you desired her, then you should understand her desires are greater than you, and so devote yourself to that which she devoted herself, unless you distrust your adoration, and if so, why bother to take out your unrequited emotions, lesser than affection even, on that which you were "cucked" by?

Linguistics, because the entire issue of "meaning" is resolved when you define the word.

>>9221130
K. Elaborate with an author.

>>9221130
OK, and what do we define the word with? Words?

about tree fiddy lmao
When does the narwhal bacon?

Ten minutes to laugh his embarrassing Joycean chapter. That was legitimately pathetic. Sasuga comic writer desu

>>9221095
Whats that chapter?

>>9221065
>This is one of the most positive, life-affirming books I've ever read.
>>9221065
how many books have you read?

>>9221065
ayn rand hate is liberal femishitsm marxist propaganda plain and fucken simple fucking jeliz shrews as fuck that the only woman philosopher that young usually disillusioned yet fundamentally honest good sane men actually naturally glom onto and admire she wasnt traditionally attractive nor was she forcibly taught in zogschools nor did she buy into their fake as fuck classwarfare victim communism zog fuckideology and saw right through it so they have to literally meme her into being a crazy insane kook with bad writing and shame the people who like what she has to say like they did with camille paglia and then hold up bankriupt shitfucks like susan sontag and other shit "feministismskmsims" thinkers

like after reading the fountainhead in hs i was so inspired i like forced my dad to take me to a staples to buy tracing paper so i could sketch buildings like roark even though i literally could not draw for shit

Remember the halcyon days of /lit/ when ayn rand threads were banned?

"bananas".- pinecone

>>9221022

Do your own homework.

Nobody ever said a day has to be juggled into any kind of sense at day's end.

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"Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the form of illness, poverty, bereavement and there will be no one to see or hear him."

Whose quote? This is beautiful

>>9221086
he asks you take his gun and shoot yourself thx