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>>9021709
>Melville
>Eliot
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>Herodotus

learn how to make an interesting post

>>9021655
Wow, incredible. What a great post.

I have no fucking idea what I'm doing, and I want to change that.

>>9021658
You know, insulting me is no way to get my advice.

Good day.

>>9021624
oh kid, just be aware.

>>9021624
So basically, you want to do level 6 rather than just picking up Plato and Plotinus and go for infinite? That's alright, following the chronological order is nice.

>>9021624
I want to go back to -1 to be desu honest

read
the
sticky

>>9021611
/lit/ has a pretty big presence on goodreads.

just be careful of who you friend.
>also, sage in all fields

>>9021612
I did, does it answer my question?

>>9021615
thanks i'll check it out

>>9021520
Nah, no autist can hold a conversation for more than 1 minute

>>9021520
Evidence?

He saw the bigger picture. People with autism are incapable of seeing beyond small details.

You just solved philosophy.

>>9021494

holy shit

mind = blown

upvoted

>>9021500
>>9021498

Give me something that is under debate regarding truth and I'll let you know whether it's true or not according to my theory.

Bump. So is /lit/ ashamed of the magazines for some reason and doesn't want to share them?

>>9021478
I'd like to see them too!
Sorry I don't have anything constructive for you, OP.

>>9021623
Bro are you silly in the head? Most posters are post-Hypersphere posters.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kafka%27s+the+metamorphosis+themes

the metamorphosis is the change his family has to go through in order to cope with his bullshit.

>>9021464
I wrote an essay, for a class on Existentialism, arguing that it was about how family, which is the first level of society, tying you to the rest of society - as you see with the boss - and is a generally evident concept, and therefore society, reacted to subjectivity.
I really wanted to do a psychoanalytic interpretation, where the part of the apple thrown at him, and the mother protecting him from his father by strangling, is actually imagined to repress the fact that his mother hates him too, and signifies some form of Freudian "primal scene", but the lecturer was allergic to psychoanalysis and it really wasn't the appropriate class for me to further this interpretation.
I later read in Jameson, though, that both existentialist and psychoanalytic interpretations are overused (haven't read any), and we should use a post-modern/marxist perspective, which as far as I remember he doesn't expand much on this interpretation, and he's not referring to this book exclusively anyway.

hope the person you wrote to is autistic too and will be delighted to have found a brethren

>>9021433
Is desu word filtered from tee bee H

>>9021445
yea

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>9021394
Ulysses

>>9021406
Man, we should write something again.

>>9021350
philosophy ain't easy bruv.
you've gotta practice reading texts.
>partly, you'll get better at it, and
>partly, knowing about different authors/concepts/possible influences/references
will allow you to be better at it. I haven't figured out which is the cause but I think it's a bit of both.
Also Hegel is difficult even with knowledge of Aristotle and Kant, but I think if you don't Aristotle and Kant (which you will never know 100%) you will have trouble understanding much of philosophy generally. I also really hate Adorno, fucking prick.

I'd say keep reading Hegel himself. Or read, for example, prologomena by Kant, it is his own summary of a critique of pure reason. Unfortunately I don't know enough about Hegel to know if he's primarily influenced by critique of reason or judgement or other writings of Kant.
I've heard good things about Frederic Jameson's book on Hegel(ian Variations? I think?). But most books about Hegel are more about the interpretation of that notoriously difficult text rather than about Hegel himself.

>>9021434
>I also really hate Adorno, fucking prick.
Why though?

>>9021434
>I also really hate Adorno, fucking prick.

I don't hate Adorno, I meant that is difficult to understand him in spanish since it is said that Aesthic Theory's translation was taken too literally in the first edition which resulted in some conflicts in the explanation of the concepts because of the way he wrote and also the inherent nature of german language.

"the single most absurdist act is taking a gun and firing it indiscriminately into a crowd" -anonymous

If I'm remembering it correctly, it's "the single most absurdist act is taking a gun and firing it indiscriminately into a crowd".

"the single most absurdist act is taking a gun and firing it indiscriminately into a crowd then pumping your fist in the air and shouting, "Mudkipz," before shooting yourself in the dick."

>>9021336

Chekhov, Ibsen, Kafka and Proust would like to take your opinion, throw it away, and shit down your retarded gullet.

>>9021336
Cuck

>>9021336
If by atheist philosophy you mean directly atheistic philosophy then yeah you're right. It's pretty hard to write essay after essay about the stuff you're not doing.

However there's great atheistic literature/philosophy about the void that not believing in god creates especially as to how it relates to meaning

Same. I get my wife to read to me now.

try any form of amphetamine before reading.

>>9021335
How old are you? If you're in your 50s you're beyond saving.
If you're not you can still make it. Reading is an habit, and chances are that your attention span is too low cause of imageboards and too much TV. Internet will do this to you.

>The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings.

>But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,
>Each comes in state with his train—hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
>Soldier, lawyer, lords, jailer, and sycophant.

Is he arguing for permanent revolution?

>>9021306
I really enjoyed his Faustian based story

Yes, although maybe not as influential or ambitious