I want to get into Kierkegaard'sn work. Can someone give me a recommendation of where I should start, or a guideline chart? Cheers.
>>8931451
wikipedia has some great stuff, and if you want it from his words themselves, I bet there's a wikiquote
I like this guys YT videos, he does a good job and gives a solid overview of various philosophers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlwWMJILBA
I like to start by watching a few lectures on YT to try and understand different philosophers ideologies. For once its generally helpful to read the comments as well because some times people point out errors and give counter arguments. Good luck
>>8931451
The meme is to start with Fear and Trembling. Then to peruse summaries when choosing the next works.
Third party studies, guides, and summaries are also helpful if you want to try to just get to the heart of his works. An outsider interpretation is. helpful for understanding the characters he writes as.
What book should I read by this lad?
dont read
La ciudad y los Perros
Pantaleon y las visitadoras
Conversación en la catedral
La guerra del fin del mundo
La fiesta del chivo
dont read
Why are scalpers so fucking ridiculous? This book is selling for like 500 dollars on amazon right now. I have two copies, one in mint condition which I keep on my shelf, another one in good condition I keep on my night stand. I got one as a gift and the other for like 10 bucks. Why the fuck though, do they charge 500 dollars for a used good condition hardcover like this? It's with this particular book especially too, there's so many expensive af auctions and believe it or not, I think the copies over 100 dollars are actually moving.
>>8931420
It's a shit book
>>8931436
You're a shit book.
>>8931420
They have a solid Penguin Classics of this for like $15.
Just finished marathoning the first two chapters of Dracula
What did I think of it /lit/?
>What did I think of it /lit/?
>chapters of Dracula
They were LETTERS
>marathoning
>two chapters
>epistolary novel
Is there a literature prize like pic relatedbig book prizethat actually awards more traditionalist/literary works rather than political ones dictated by the authors gender or race in the spirit of inclusivity?
>>8931378
no, any award that gives first prize to that of a non-white or non-male or non-heterosexual is degenerate. Face it, were simply oppressed
>>8931388
Having read Beatty's The Sellout, The Vegetarian, and having made my way through the shortlists of Man Booker, Pulitzerlol, and National Book list for the few years, a political bias is obvious. Cervantes less so, much less so, but of course translation is a problem.
>>8931402
Can you name a winner of one of the biggest awards who were deserving of it despite being the wrong gender or race?
protip: stop caring about awards
*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
yep…. that's me.. you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation..
thats the nazi rally or whatever?
>>8931217
this photo has always really bothered me and I can't tell why.
>>8931707
you hate life
>Comic book movies are immature, as are comics. These are puerile fantasies.
>...and then Zeus slapped him with his dick, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, it's so funny and deep and you have to like it or else you're an idiot!
>Internet memes and fanfiction are for idiotic neckbeards.
>After I finished reading Dante's Inferno and Ulysses I read V by Pynchon. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, he LITERALLY put in the Kilroy was here picture!
>If those nerds think their art form has to use the latest technology then it ain't a fucking art form! Geez!
>My eBook reader was broken so I phoned up the independent publisher and they used their on demand printing press to send me a book the next day. I just love books. Thank god for Gutenberg who allowed so many books to be around!
>Self publishing is for serial killer manifestos or hucksters! The world needs gatekeepers!
>I'm going to read The Republic for the tenth time.
>Science is a sterile abstraction that leads to nowhere! I am an open minded lover of knowledge and wisdom, not an inverse cripple
>Oh... they managed to mathematicise and formalise that area... I guess I was never interested in it anyway...
>The Greeks, Romans, and Medieval Theologians are the only source of universal knowledge. We live in decadent times with awful educational standards, declining morals, and a lack of deep thinkers!
>What the fuck! My phone's WiFi only downloads 2 MB a second! No, I don't give a shit what Stephen hawking said today about black holes and the nature of reality! Omg, watch this video of this Texas televangelist telling these children to be good and hard working... what a creepy huckster hack!
>>8931195
Wtf I hate /lit/ now, amirite?
>>8931195
Sh8 b8 m8 i r8 0/8
straw man
noun
Popularity: Bottom 50% of words
Definition ofSTRAW MAN
1: a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted
2: a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable transaction
"Straw Man." Merriam-Webster.com. Accessed January 5, 2017. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw man.
Jesus said: "For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it."
Matthew 19:12
I want a book where the main character is a eunuch. Already read Fiesta: or The Sun Also Rises but I want something a bit more surreal, like Batailles or something.
Eunuch /lit/ general, also
>>8931143
>He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
So is Jesus saying that if you can't get erect you should be a bottom?
>>8931143
That passage gave me the feels.
>>8931542
The bible is a feel factory, the J-God was our greatest philosopher. Take the red pill.
What were Aquinas' views on Determinism?
Personally, I think determinism and indeterminism are the same thing.
I need to flesh out this idea and Aquinas is probably the only person able to do that for me.
Where does he talk about it?
>>8930991
>What were Aquinas' views on Determinism?
He didn't have them as far as I know. Determinism as a position is related to materialism which wasn't a thing until 500 years after he died.
>I need to flesh out this idea and Aquinas is probably the only person able to do that for me.
He's certainly not, at best Anscombe or Geach wrote about it somewhere, but I can't imagine a middle ages author writing about a 19-21st century problem.
>>8931067
Maybe not determinism, but the general relationship between causality and human will, or between objectivity and subjectivity etc.
Which I'm pretty sure was talked about a lot during his time.
>>8931078
His work is always systematic, have you considered using the glossary first?
>Start writing
>Write a sentence
>Realize it contains everything you wanted for the entire paragraph
>Break it into more sentences
>And more
>Paragraph still way too short
>Waste your all creativity for extending the paragraph more
>It's still not as long as you wanted and you don't feel like writing anymore
Good way of dealing with this? I had this issue for years.
There is beauty in brevity, my friend.
>>8931008
It's annoying tho
>>8931091
Then I guess the only option is suicide, sorry anon
Books on writing and the struggle of being creative or being a creator, in general.
No self-help books BS or similar guides on how to be really cool and artsy. No magical solutions and recipes.
Just authors that have struggled with creation and wrote down their experience for anyone else to not commit the same errors and/or get some insight on how to approach any creative task.
I found really interesting materials from painters like Duchamp or Kadinsky, but none worth from /lit/erary minds. Any books that helped you understand the creative process and the hell that comes with it?
>the struggle of being creative or being a creator
What struggle?
>>8930865
Don't know about you anon, but I have periods when I feel what I've done is a pile of shit, others were I have an euphoria drive that lasts for a few days, average days and so on.
I think it's pretty common by looking at how much time some people have dedicated though history to understand and write about the creative process and how to develop art, what's art, what role plays the receiver on all this, etc
>>8930927
You sound 14.
Whatever "periods" you have of depression or mania aren't struggle but self-inflicted posturing.
What's the best way to expand my vocabulary?
>>8930832
Start with the greeks
>tfw to smart too need big words
>>8930836
FPBP
Hi /lit/. Thought experiment.
If you were to want to become self-sufficient and escape the economic struggle as quickly as possible (i.e. acquire enough capital to live off for the next few decades) and you had no ethical qualms about acting illegally (without getting caught of course), how would you go about it? It's clear that those who ignore the law get ahead much faster in life, even if they just start out acting illegaly in the beginning to acquire initial capital. I'm assuming all of us prefer to work alone and from home ideally, so under those conditions some things I can come up with are: Carding, online extortion, scams (although hard to pull of safely probably), affiliate marketing.
What literature (or advice, sources and other resources) would you choose to inform yourself and educate yourself on how to act wisely, pave your path and achieve your goal? Not including anarcho-crapitalist or libertardian propaganda works, we all know those are a waste of time. Nobody read Atlas Shrugged anyways. I'm particularly interested in books that will further my understanding of the flaws of our economic and political systems and how they can be exploited.
>>8930774
Mein Kampf, Milo, Lauren Southern, Trump's entire ouvre, Evola, and Sam Harris.
is this bait?
thanks for the laugh
>>8930774
This thread highlights one thing that I will never understand about /lit/.
Just pick up a fucking finance textbook
this book is massive. who here has read it? is it any good?
not as massive as my dick desu
>>8930767
read Confessions first
>>8930808
shut up
What's the patrician way to approach a creative writing course at a university? I am taking one to satisfy an exit requirement.
>>8930748
When you write godawful trash, don't ask anyone to spend any more time on it than absolutely necessary. If people give you notes, accept them humbly instead of trying to defend your "vision."
The absolute worst thing about creative writing courses are the people who will tell you that you "didn't get what they were trying to do" when everyone is already being nice enough to not call it trash outright.
All that said, the true patrician move is to not tear down your classmates even when they have it coming.
>>8930748
Don't try to be too deep. I did one as an elective in my BSc and got a High Distinction for it.
Lots of people will want to write about Tumblrisms and BLM type shit, or tell a whole story when the criteria asks for a "flash fiction", or a rant when asked for a poem.
Understand narration styles and stick to one. Nothing worse than a story that goes from first person to third person present to past tense and then back again. Plus tricks like the unreliable narrator, dramatic irony, and so on.
Never use a thesaurus. If you're not familiar enough with a word that it's in your vocabulary already, don't use it. People can tell.
Prepare yourself to read some of the worst shit you've ever read in your life and then couch your critique of it in niceties and positive rephrasings.