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is there a writer better than Flaubert? What's his or her name?
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Obviously you didn't read my diary yet desu
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obviously JAMES MOTHER FUCKING JOYCE YOU FUCK NUT
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Ayn Rand. Underrated as fuck because plebs don't understand her.
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I am a philosophy student. I am currently deciding whether continuing into a PhD or not. According to my professors, I am very good at this and should continue, but I don't really feel motivated.
I like reading books for the sake of what they teach me. I feel that academic research is mainly a form of masturbation made by university for university. I have always felt that books were somehow useful in teaching me how to live.
The time I spend on doing academic research, exploring every minutiae of a book, seems to me not to be worth the results. I believe books are not made to be experienced in this way, especially novels. I feel that reading, as a form of experience, should not become as totalizing as it becomes in academic life at high levels. There are books and there is life: books are supposed to be related to life and to produce something in life by modifying the way you see the world. When you are working nine hours a day on your research, reading literature that in most of the cases is not worth your time, you are missing on life. You do not spend nine hours reading a masterpiece: you spend most of the time reading opinions on masterpieces. Could you not spend your time better by reading other masterpieces? Or living?
I feel that academic life would separate me more and more from actual life. Faculties of the humanities are somehow "segregated", separated from most field of study. They revolve around themselves.
This is just my opinion. Do you think that academic life is good? Would you take PhDs? Do you think humanities, as they are studied in universities, mainly revolve around themselves?
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Amazing that you got through undergrad Phil with such a Nietzschean opinion. Wasn't it 99% will-to-systems?
Anyway, thanks for convincing me to remain as interdisciplinary as I can.
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>>8689997
It doesn't seem like you want to so why would you? If you want to get paid to read go to grad school, if you want to get paid to write, be a writer. If you want to get paid, go to industry.
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>>8689997
Why do people lie on the internet
No prof would tell you to pursue grad studies if you didn't like researching. I bet you're some freshman so up his own ass that you think you deserve to be in academia without doing academic work just because you're smart. Do you even talk to your profs, little dog?
Literally what the fuck is the point of this thread, what the fuck
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Calling anyone who can speak / read German- I'd like some help
I have to analyze the poem "Das Unglück" by Matthias Politycki for a class I'm taking. I'm kinda terrible at German, and I figured if there was anywhere on this website where someone would be able to speak German, know who Politycki is, and be able to give some context / insight, it'd be this forum. I'll post the poem
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Das Unglück (2009)
Wenn es dann schließlich eintritt, ist ja alles
schon tausendmal durchdacht und längst besprochen,
hast du dich schon so oft mit deiner Angst verkrochen
und alles durchgerechnet für den Fall des Falles,
daß nun, wo’s wirklich ernst wird, nicht einmal ein Pochen
im Hals dir zeigt, wie es mit Urgewalt
dich überkommt. Mit einem Herz aus Glas, ganz kalt,
tust du und läßt, was du dereinst versprochen,
und lebst ansonsten einfach weiter. Erst nach Wochen
fällt dir ein Wimmern auf, wie es ununterbrochen
ans Ohr dir dringt. Doch nebenan der Raum ist leer,
und wie du schließlich merkst, du selber bist es, der
ganz leis’ zu hören ist, da wird dir jählings schwer
ums Herz, und erst in diesem Augenblick ist es gebrochen.
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So my loose understanding of the poem is "You can prepare all you want for disaster to strike, but you won't be able to completely stand against heartbreak." I could be reading it wrong, though, because like I said, my German is trash. I also understand that Politycki is a successful and respected German author (even though Google is entirely unhelpful about him), and he adheres to a rather traditional rhyme scheme. I just don't know what else there is to look into in this poem
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pls halp lit
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Do you think he's still alive? Anyone else on this board actually own any of his books?
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Quite possibly the streetracing death is a /v/ hoax, or he made it up because he's stupid enough to think it would throw off the FBI.
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>Wittgenstein basically wanted to shut up all talk of spirituality. This desire was at the heart of his involvement with philosophy. "Think what you want, but at least shut up about it and spare the rest of us of your asinine claptrap." No wonder he became the poster child of the spiritually barren Anglo-Saxons. But Baudrillard doesn't mention him even once.
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>>8690108
Icy doesnt know W. was a closet christian mystic?
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any very good books about/which discuss religion or belief?
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>>8689859
fiction first, philosophy or non-fiction second*
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>>8689859
Read the sticky
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why is the name of the rose considered the greatest book of the 20th century?
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it isn't
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Because it is
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>>8689811
i thought it was widely considered to be?
i saw the film version with sean connery too, was very good.
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Is there anything I should know before reading this?
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>>8689719
holy fuck just FUCKING READ IT YOU FAGGOT
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That you are a faggot.
What are you expecting? It's a short story collection.
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be kind, the fight is worth it
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Kierkegaard was the original robot
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>Kierkegaard’s own multitudinous and often self-contradictory journals, which are often more fiction than fact.
>When he was 28 years old, because of some personal affliction (possibly venereal disease) Kierkegaard forced himself to spurn the affections of the most popular woman in Copenhagen—18-year-old Regine Olsen, whom he dearly loved—without explaining to her why. Initially crushed by the rejection, Regine later married the successful philosopher Fritz Schlegel.
>Kierkegaard never recovered, and his love for Regine festered into a disturbing lifelong obsession. Hundreds of pages of his journals are filled with fantasies about her, fragments of imagined conversations, cryptic book dedications, and unsent letters.
>is doctor surmised that many of Kierkegaard’s day-to-day ailments resulted from his hunched back and poor habits, and told Kierkegaard that he “probably drinks too much coffee and walks too little” (p. 435). Kierkegaard himself had an entirely different take on his visit with his doctor.
>“I have therefore spoken with my physician,” wrote Kierkegaard in his journal, “about whether he believed this misrelation in my constitution, between the physical and psychical, could be overcome so that I could realize the universal. This he doubted. I asked him whether he believed that the spirit was capable of refashioning or reshaping such a fundamental misrelation by force or will. This he doubted. He would not even advise me to bring the whole of my willpower (of which he has no notion) to bear upon it...” (p. 436).
>Kierkegaard found the entire practice of medicine—one of the great conquests of human civilization—to be nothing more than a farce. “And what does the physician really have to say?” Kierkegaard asks himself, “Nothing.”
>Kierkegaardian martyrdom takes the form not of death by crucifixion or stoning, but of total self-imposed isolation from society at large. One cannot marry, one must give up friends, family, and country, and one must adopt an attitude of total indifference and contempt for the rest of society.
>When in 1848 thousands demonstrated in the streets of Copenhagen to demand labor reforms, constitutional government and equal rights for women, Kierkegaard assured his readers...A mediocre ruler is a much better constitution than this abstraction, 100,000 rumbling nonhumans” (p. 494).
>A people’s government,” wrote Kierkegaard, “is the true image of Hell” (p. 487). Kierkegaard was unabashedly an apologist and supporter of the monarch, and when democratic revolution swept the country in 1849, Kierkegaard hid in his apartment and hoped it would all blow over.
I'd post more, but I'm going to go over the character limit.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/04/kier-a17.html
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>>8689691
Kierkegaard was funny and reflective which disqualifies him as a robot
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>>8689691
>>“I have therefore spoken with my physician,” wrote Kierkegaard in his journal, “about whether he believed this misrelation in my constitution, between the physical and psychical, could be overcome so that I could realize the universal. This he doubted. I asked him whether he believed that the spirit was capable of refashioning or reshaping such a fundamental misrelation by force or will. This he doubted. He would not even advise me to bring the whole of my willpower (of which he has no notion) to bear upon it...”
A neckbeard would LITERALLY write this in their journal, holy shit.
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>>8689691
>It's a dismiss the ideas of a great thinker with reference to his personal life episode
That said he would definitely have posted here had he been around now. He'd have been like seven different tripfags
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wtf i hate heidegger now
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A lot of people do, and they would whether or not he was a nazi
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>>8689650
wtf I thought Stefan was the philosopher king of our generation, how can he so flippantly throw the baby out with the bath water (not that I am fully familiar with Heidegger, but i have witnessed him say some interesting things (Hitler was responsible for some horrific occurrences, some of his paintings are pleasing to look at)
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>x is contemptible
Not an argument
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Most /lit/ unis and colleges in America? (Not Ivy League). Thinking of going on exchange for my third year of Eng Lit. Think this translates to major in the US? Scotland here.
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>>8689620
Bump. In a similar situation to OP but want to do it in History.
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>>8689620
Shimer
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>tfw my college is filled with published authors who have offered to connect me to their publisher when I finish my manuscript
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Beginning Christfag here, interested in reading Job. Does anyone have any recommendations for a commentary. Preferably a commentary that talks about how the book has been interpreted throughout history by different groups.
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you can't be a christian if you weren't raised catholic sry brah
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What makes people suddenly become religious later in life? I'm very curious about this phenomenon.
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>>8689655
I was a bit vague. I was raised Methodist and had a slight interest in church, but I never really believed it. Now I'm at college and I'm trying to build my biblical knowledge from the ground up to better understand why people are faithful.
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why does she have against capitalization
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>>8689558
Why does capitalization matter when there's context and pace?
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>capitalization
>capital
>capitalism
TRIGGERED
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>>8689565
well it must be a big fucking deal to her
Cucky OP
Emotions the product of linguistics, or inherent to humanity 2016-11-03 22:00:51 Post No.8689514
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Emotions the product of linguistics, or inherent to humanity
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Hey Anons, I am curious of the evolution of emotion, and how linguistics correspond. Any good literature (by good, I mean anything without the word "Chomsky" on the cover). General discussion please. Godda go suck a cock.
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>>8689514
my diary desu
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Monkeys have emotions, my nigger. Do they have languages?
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>>8689534
>Do they have languages?
funny that it was the monkeys you would mention, because yes, they do
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread.
Let's have one of these.
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Why does this thread deserve its own thread.
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Any books that serve as manuals to becoming the contrarian asshole I've always wanted to be?
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>>8689496
You could write it.
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Will this be considered children's liturature in the future?
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What type of ruse is this?
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>>8689399
put them in order please and then kindly delete your whole life for thinking that was an ok thing to do
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>>8689399
It isn't considered that now?