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>>8828289
it's not fascist, it's antiquarian

the parts of it that seem fascist are the parts that the fascists copied from the greeks and romans

never forget that socrates advocated genocide and dictatorship and aristotle was a racist

>>8828295
why is it whenever i post something that i think is interesting the thread dies

am i too stupid to know i'm stupid?

>>8828346
No this thread is...Es preddy gud

>>8828222
>Protagoras
>Symposium
>certain parts of The Republic

As far as being entertaining to read, I most enjoy Symposium.

For profundity of ideas, Phaedo is by far the best, in my opinion

>>8828222
The Symposium is honestly really funny. I think the Phaedo is my favorite as well.

The Qu'ran.

That is all.

>>8828131
Recent books or any kind of books?

Every book that will be over 100 years old and still remembered.

>>8828050
Read Four Archetypes, his ideas about the collective unconscious are super important.


I've also noticed what feels like a Jungian revival, feels good lads.

>>8828050
Portable Jung

>inb4 everyone gives a different recommendation
all his books are so interesting its hard to say, maybe "memories, dreams and reflections" because its sort of a background that explains how he came to believe things

Yeah it's quite fun.

>>8828022
i like your taste in books. what else is fun? looking for less serious stuff like this - fuck hard with flashman.

it's as much good as bad and there's a lot of it
if you've got a penchant for esoterica and a sense of humor you will probably enjoy it some.

>>8828059
pynchon, if that even needs to be said. gravity's rainbow is basically a well written illuminatus

>>8827973
>Will it be problematic if I start with Critique of Judgement?
Autists will say yes because he references his first critique here and there but otherwise nah

>>8827973
Start with Prolegomena. It makes it easier to approach the 3 big Critiques IMO.

Of course you can do whatever.

>>8827994
Thanks. I'll take your suggestion.

>>8827981
Thank you as well.

He'll be remembered until some other popular slob takes his place.

Is he still hiding after running away when Trump won?

>>8827964
Be careful not to cut yourself.

Yeah, thanks, lads

Read the book that your picture is obviously referencing, you total faggot

>>8828711
I was wondering if Ride the Tiger is the best book to start with, or whether an earlier work would be better

It's a fad, so what?

You can look up the best-sellers from the 20's and 30's and most of them you've never even heard of.

Selling a lot doesn't mean it's worth reading. It just means a lot of turds tossed a buck its way.

>>8827869
>Why the hell are all the bestsellers written by women/have women protagonists?
Because being a woman and/or writing a female protagonist gets you published easier.

>>8827856
Cancer/10

>>8827953
you're right, it is cancer. but since you didn't show yours it automatically means that your stacks are even worse. cancerpost/10

>>8827856
Fuck off.

>>8827824

Oblomov and The Magic Mountain.

>>8827824
Tolkien and the Elder Edda.

Just finished reading Hamlet. Then I will move on to Macbeth.

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Making these is kinda fun desu

>>8827888
Shit, that's pretty accurate. I was disappointed in that book desu

but the non-linearity is genius with how it all comes together by the end

>>8827830
It wasn't worth it for me.

Always found it weird how polarising this book is. I'm the biggest pleb going, I find 90% of the books I read either too boring or too confusing, so on paper I should have hated Catch-22. Yet it's probably my favourite book.

I think if the book doesn't click by the time you reach Clevinger's trial then you're probably not going to enjoy it at all.

>>8827798
>I thought East of Eden was a great book.
Then we must hate you too.

>>8827798

Because they're cynical and hip, and genuine human warmth isn't.

>>8827798
/lit/ doesn't hate Steinbeck.

Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus (of course you can read all of his works...)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Nag Hammadi Scriptures by Meyer
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
Plotinus: Enneads
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius

>>8827876
That one book by Harold Bloom

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John Lash is interesting

youtu.be/nSBcEkIwpSk


John Lamb Lash is a self-educated free-lance scholar and author who combines studies and experimental mysticism to teach directive mythology. He is a leading exponent of the power of myth to direct individual experience and drive historical events over the long term. On metahistory.org, he presents a radical revision of Gnosticism, with original commentaries on the Nag Hammadi codices

youtu.be/_fYJSEaei04