Would he have been the new Spinoza if
1. He was not born a frenchman (le deconstructionism and le anthropology)
2. He never met the Guitar Man (le psychobabbbble)
??
Thoughts?
>>8646724
he wouldnt have been as creative if he wasnt trying to troll frogs by being into hume and shit
Wow look a bad thread
Am I doing it right if I write of Spinoza as trash by referring to him as le magic monad man???
>>8646744
Spinoza is god tier
I was just wondering if Deleuze would have been a better philosopher if he wasn't exposed to all that hsit i listed
How much university level training do you need to be fully /lit/, if any? I took multiple literature classes when I was in high school, but now at uni I'm not sure if I can fit any in my schedule.
I've read the basic /lit/ starter kit books and really enjoyed them, but I don't know how I should be approaching all of this. Do you analyze books as you read them consciously, or just read them? Do you look up much outside analysis of it (more than just the forward) when you read a book?
I just want to generally get the most out of these books as I can and I'm not sure exactly how to do that. How do you, /lit/? Does it depend on the book?
seven
>>8646673
>how much university training do i need to read books and think about their content
>>8646673
dogs
>believed some humans were born superior to others and was okay with eugenics
>believed some works of art were too degenerate and should be banned
>young warriors should live in a communistic clan apart from the rest of society
>believed men should be ruled by a superior philosopher king (Fuhrer)
Was Plato, dare I say it, a proto-Nazi?
>>8646603
I think you mean proto-Trumpian. Prepare your molotov cocktails and/or peanut butter.
>>8646603
Well, you know what they say, Plato is right about everything. So it's only natural he were a nazi.
>>8646603
>thinking Nazism is the only ideology to hold these beliefs and wasn't hobbled together from a million different things including the works of Plato
Silly OP
How to learn the technical stuff of poetry?
A study of linguistics?
I feel like I can not start poetry without knowing the foundation stuff
>>8646540
What, like meter? Here's a neat little interactive website:
http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/
>>8646575
yea, accents, etc
i don't understand why they're used, when to use them, why do i have to adhere to it, etcc
>>8646575
>http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/
btw thanks
When and where was the best time to be alive?
No "le wrong generation" bullshit here please, state thoughtful reasons, not trivial stuff like music and fashion.
Just after the American industrial revolution -- life was comfortable but technology had not destroyed nature and society. Literally everyone I know now argued about the new iPhone not having a headphone jack like it's the highlight of the year. That caused me to dissociate from reality.
Today. This is the age of biopolitics. Life and reproduction are glorified like never before. Giving new meaning to what Aristotle once called the Bios Politikos. Modern man takes a morbid and demented pleasure in his "species-being", like the tame and domesticated animal he has turned out to be. No longer animal rationale, more like animal laborans and animal socialis.
Music is closer to literature than fashion. It's just that, unlike literature, the medium gets more recognition for the worst stuff to come out of it. At its best the two mediums are matched.
noam chomsky has written over 100 books. which do i read if i want to get my dick wet?
manufacturing consent
>>8646232
this and also read 'How the World Works'. It's three of his shorter books in one, and it's also really pretentiously titled so dumb poly-sci broads will feel smart for fucking you. Also skim one book by Kropotkin as a backup for the more intelligent but still dumb as fuck ones
SD?
What was his end-game, /lit/?
Having read him, I can now safely say that most people who claim to have done so are either lying or ignoring most of what he said. He seems about as far away from 'meme' philosopher as you can get.
>>8646166
>frog
>'what was his end game lol xD'
>meme
Go away
>>8646166
His end-game was going mad because his philosophy was too fucking autistic.
>>8646166
He didn't have one. The game never ends.
Haul/Stack thread
I just got these for $5 at a book sale. Gray one is Don Quixote, Bottom hardcover is Gulliver's Travels
>>8646138
Wow nude purchasing power!
Keep us updated on any further purchase you make, really interesting stuff, man!
>>8646143
what does that mean?
Let'a have ourselves a stack thread.
>>8646106
>>8646132
I don't even post in these threads but are you retarded? The stacks gives others ideas of what to possibly read next, shows similar interests, etc.
>>8646106
Epic stacking ability, bro xD
sage and report
currently reading this. Took me a whole month because it's unbearable
>Non-linear style that's poorly written so you don't know whats happening half the time
>boring characters that don't actually do things
>the story could have been finished in 50 pages but there's 300 and the same flashback are told again over and over
>symbolism and metaphors are shit
why is this book so praised again ?
go back to /pol/. we don't need more of your kind here.
>>8646093
Gonna have to read this in my AP lit class later this year and I'm not excited
Is /lit/ aware of any good, academic, anti-feminists? I've read a couple of pieces by Warren Farrell, and he's not bad, but his arguments also aren't particularly good.
Also Christina Hoff Sommers isn't bad, but she's still a feminist and still believes in things like patriarchy theory, so she's not what I'm presently looking for.
>>8646073
Fuck off, women are trash.
Just read Milo Yannopolous articles on Breitbart.
Actual books: Thomas Sowell absolutely destroys feminist myths like the 'wage gap', in pretty much all of his work (try Economic Facts and Fallacies, and skip the chapter about income).
Alasdair MacIntyre provides a great analysis of modern moral sentiment and his work is imo instrumental in understanding of contemporary moral views. He does not speak of feminism directly, but his criticism of where it comes from is on point.
Are the rumors true?
what are the rumours?
that he can neither sing nor play the guitar well?
afraid so.
He's as embarrassed as everyone else. He's been ignoring the Nobel committee. Someone put up nobel winner" on his official webshite but it has now been taken back down.
I want to read more books about homosexual relationships. Does /lit/ recommend starting with this?
wait for the publication of my journal
>>8645995
Have you had many homosexual relationships, anon?
>>8646003
self love is homosexual
What's /lit/'s opinion on this?
I liked it
It's pretty good, though I think Vonnegut has a tendency to get written off as a gateway author or as a high school tier sort of thing. It might be nostalgia but I like almost everything he's written.
He's the personification of mediocrity.
What is your favorite postmodern book(s)?
>>8645906
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Cyrano's Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon