how come when u get older philosophy stops being as interesting
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>>8804034
The redpill
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>>8804034
its all the same shit
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>>8804034
When you're young you feel like when your eyes are opened to new philosophy it might change your entire world are its very foundations in your eyes. Every new philosopher you come across brings about pic related.
When you're older you realize how little the world ever actually changes and you block out how much you can care about big questions like mortality and meaning because its not worth the stress
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Aside from his radical anti-egalitarianism and idea of will to power (which can be seen as an antithesis of wu wei), Nietzsche is basically just rehashing Laozi. Especially his criticisms of morality as understood by plebs like Plato and Confucius.
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>>8804025
laozi sounds like the name of a wu tang member
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decent shitpost 6/10
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>>8804025
please actually read Nietzsche's books before posting dumb shit like this
What's the best version of this book?
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>>8804003
a heavily abridged one.
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>>8804003
the untranslated one :^)
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>>8804003
The one that contains all of it, the 2k or so pages in 3 volumes.
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What did Kierkegaard bring to the philosophical table?
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the symptoms of a rotting diseased spine
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>>8803975
i dunno probably nothing
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Memes
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Would it be extremely stupid of me to buy these books?
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>>8803969
why the first one
also virginia was pretty shallow and is odious in my opinion
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Only read Hundred Years of Solitude and that one's a tedious, l'art-pour-l'artist piece of trash.
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>>8803969
buy itbuy it
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Flying to Kuwait in a few days, need some advice - can I bring "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini with me? I heard great things about it, and I think it would be fun to read in the Middle East, IF I won't get into trouble for having it with me...
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>>8803938
Are you retarded? Or just American?
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>>8803963
For the sake of argument let's call me retarded, and maybe give me a straight answer? I read that the book was banned on the Kuwait Book Fair
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yeah no one reads here anyway
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Yo /lit/
What's the literary equivelant to Lars Von Trier? Especially books that feel like Melancholia.
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For some reason Ligotti comes to mind
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Beckett. Molloy trilogy
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What did LVT mean by this?
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How bad is this edition of GR? Its really beautiful, but I hear it's littered with errors such as typos, cut lines, replaced words, etc
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>>8803743
It's so bad it's the only reason why people think GR is such a difficult book. All the errors cause so much confusion to readers that it has the reputation of being a confusing mess when really it's pretty straight forward.
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>>8803749
I dont believe you
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>>8803743
I read this one, and made it through just fine.
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Has anyone ever written a classic when they were in their 80+? I never hear about really old people writing books, do old people just suck at everything involving creativity or something? Pic unrelated.
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They suck at being in good enough physical and mental health.
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Umberto Eco died at 84 and wrote until his very last days
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>>8803717
Pynchon is 79
McCarthy is 83 or 84 and is releasing a new book next year
Gass is in his fuckin 90's, I think he released something in his 80's
Toni Morrison is 85
who do you think is gonna go first?
probably Bloom
/lit/ this is your future, get out while you can
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>>8803649
forgot link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTmLkgIpOg
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>>8803649
Holy fuck. People like this,man.
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>>8803657
This is a very good and thoughtful lecture. What's your point?
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What is the reading list for the philosophy of language? I'm interested in such things as how language influences our world-view, how calling the same thing in different ways can make it appear differently and similar stuff.
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>>8803626
Start with the Greeks
By this I mean Aristotle's Organon.
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>>8803626
I'm no expert but Owen Barfield has some interesting essays and books on that subject that I enjoyed.
Also read about semiotics. I just read about it on the internet.
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>>8803626
The gift of storytelling may be one of life's most powerful...
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So I just finished Pynchon's V, and while I must say it's way better than Crying of Lot 49, and I really liked the writing style and the book itself.
But I just felt like going through a short stories collection as every chapter went by, only that each story was vaguely connected. Is this what it has to feel like or am I just missing the narrative link?
I enjoyed it but I'm not sure I have understood it at all. My favorite chapter was the operation, that's for sure. It's a great scene.
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>>8803616
i just ordered it the other day, its on the way. i really hope i do a have goodly amount of fun when i give it a read
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>>8803640
It really is lots of fun except for some long ranting-like passages that add 0 to the central plot and the novel in general. So, apart from a few chapters, you're safe.
I just noticed the image; fuck, this was sarcasm wasn't it
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>>8803616
>So I just finished Pynchon's V, and while I must say it's way better than Crying of Lot 49, and I really liked the writing style and the book itself, I just felt like going through a short stories collection; every chapter went by, only that each story was vaguely connected. Is this what it has to feel like or am I just missing the narrative link?
There, I fixed your post. It was giving me a headache
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>tfw your native language has no articles
I still can't understand some nuances of using articles in English. I know that the indefinite article is used when a noun is mentioned for the first time etc., but there are many cases where it's hard to evaluate whether it should be definite or not.
For example, what's the difference between these two book names: The Invisible Man and Invisible Man? What does definiteness change there?
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>>8803589
when it comes to titles? nothing really. But having a "the" in front if it makes it clearer that the book is about a specific invisible man. If the title was just "Invisible Man," it would give the connotation of something more abstract or indefinite.
Take "Underworld" for example. No article. If it was "The Underworld" it would seem like the book would contain a specific underworld or a specific allegory for the underworld that the author is gesturing at. Without the article, we get the vibe that the author is talking about a much more general and abstract idea of underworld-ness that might have no clear allegory in the book.
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>>8803794
a book just called "Invisible Man" without the definite article would much more likely be a book about some dude who isn't very notable, rather than a literal man who can't be seen.
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"The Infinite Jest" would probably refer to a specific plot point (like some sort of legendary joke) rather than the air of goofs and gags within it
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What does /lit/ think of Robert Browning?
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>>8803533
>tfw too patrician for lit
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He is the best Victorian poet.
He is erudite as fuck.
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>>8803533
numale of the time
Anyone preordering this edition? Is this a good book? I'm reading a pdf of it and I must say it is relevant to my interests. Is there a best translation?
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>>8803524
perv
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>>8803532
I'm only a perv if I do those things in real life.
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>>8803524
worst cover i've ever seen