What are your thoughts regarding it?
I always had a hard time understanding the content of phenomenology. I get the move of the radical bracketing to the apodictic experience. This supposedly opens up a whole horizon of study and analysis, but what is it? Where does it actually get you? How much can you actually say about intentionality or the content of your experience? I can't really make heads or tails of Merleau-Ponty. Maybe I need to smarten up and do more reading on it.
>>8633970
i really don't fucking get it at all
>>8633991
I never got as far as Merleau-Ponty, but I took Husserl to be getting towards a type of Western meditative state.
If you're looking to find an intensive study on Husserl, I highly recommend Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon.
WHOOP WHOOP WHAT'S up /lit/!! First off, I'd like to extend Much Motha fuckin wicked clown love to everyone on this board, cuz I've been lurking and you all are some intelligent motherfuckers!
I'm a longtime Juggalo, since I was 12 and there was only one Joker Card on the horizon, but anyway, I'm looking to get into reading with some bomb ass books!
I figure I'd check you guys out instead of reddit (they'd prob recommend some Eat Pray Love shit about some rich bitch doing yoga and eating quinoa, fuck that noise) and hit y'all up for some recommendations! I'm mainly interested in getting into some classic novels, hopefully stuff that reflects/resonates with the Dark Carnival lifestyle but to be honest i'm game for anything you guys have to offer.
So yeah, help a juggalo get lit!
>>8633950
3/10
Embarrassing
>>8633950
Woop Woop!
Why bother when violent j and shaggy 2 dope have already mastered the English language?
>abracadabra boom shaka dae
>I'm violent j and I'm back like a vertebrae
>and I come with a hat full of tricks
>trunk full of faygo, car full of fat chicks
>newfound hobby of isolating myself in my local library and reading
>there's only shit translations and i dont want to ruin the experience
>would rather not read than read a bad translation
>haven't read in 2 weeks
what do
>>8633943
Think.
You see, this is an opportunity of bettering you "stare at a perfectly white wall and attempt to understand metaphysics in one sitting". Quality hobby,
Learn a second language.
>>8633960
i know 3 languages already
>author is heavyhanded with the symbolism
>ends up directly telling the reader what their message was anyway
>>8633939
Bradbury. Fuck Bradbury.
desu
inspiration for this thread
one of his stories is about a man who's miserable until he creates an idol to worship and then in the last line the narrator is like "that's when i realized man would never be happy to be his own master, he must have someone to serve"
Is there anyone here that reads both the Western Canon and other important or philosophical fiction, yet still sometimes reads genre-fiction and can differentiate and appreciate the merits between both worlds of literature?
A lot of you guys seem to be "Either this or that" kind of person. What's wrong with letting your mind loose and not caring about what other people think once in a while?
>>8633918
Because once you get to the point where you can actually enjoy literary fiction, genre fiction pales in comparison. I've gone back and tried to read fantasy and failed. Name of the Wind doesn't measure up to, say, 2666.
We don't not read fantasy because we don't want to look pleb, we don't read it because we can see, by comparison, how crap it is and can't enjoy it for that reason.
no it's only you you're so fucking cool dude
Basically, what >>8634503 said.
I'd rather watch a good action movie if I wanted entertainment.
If the unexamined life is not worth living, why do I constantly examine my life and want to kill myself?
Just because unexamined lives are not worth living doesn't automatically mean all examined lives are. Learn how2 logic, retard.
>>8633913
Because you do not practice zazen.
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
If you don't see war, if you have not reached your literary peak at 25, then what are you?
Can you truly be worth remembering if you have not fought in battle with brothers;if you have not rhymed with charm and horrors; if you have not lived to see the gutter of Mankind?
>>8633874
Nothing will be remembered, retard
>>8633890
Go to /pol/ or /r9k/ to be a little bitch.
>>8633874
i have a chronic illness so they wouldn't let me in the military
Is this book of poems any good? I read the Bell Jar and really liked it. Is this worth buying?
>>8633783
show tits
>>8633783
show tunes
Congratulations on being the first person on the board to ask about a book by a women,
It's a masterpiece.
Thoughts on Ligotti?
>>8633716
Bit of a miserable twat desu
>>8633722
recommend smth to cheer me up now pls
>>8633716
Holy shit I look just like that wop
How much did you read this year? What's the goal for next year? Do you even worry about that sort of thing?
>>8633676
>How much did you read this year?
at 63 or so, I'll read another 10 or 15
>Goal for next year
Emile Zola's rougon macquart series for as long as I can go.
>Do you even worry about that sort of thing?
Tracking things in my life and keeping/making schedules keeps my anxiety in check. I track fitness, reading, my meals for the week, my daughters' schedules, the time I get up and go to sleep. It keeps the panic attacks away.
>How much did you read this year?
about 40 books, maybe a little more or less.
>What's the goal for next year?
number wise I don't have any specific goals, I'd like to read a lot more French though.
>Do you even worry about that sort of thing?
not really no, as long as I'm not completely neglecting my reading.
>>8633676
>How much did you read this year?
10 books or so, didn´t finish any, though.
>What's the goal for next year?
keep on reading, whatever i want.
>Do you even worry about that sort of thing?
nah, iam not doing this for anyone except for me.
S-see g-guys it really is a volume of poetry. T-totally validates the award!
He also wrote this
>>8633675
Bobby D sure was a qt back in the day.
>>8633675
Do you never tire of being outraged about this inconsequential award?
Will you start all over again next year?
Today I searched online for essays about the initial spread of christianity in the Roman Empire, up to the point it became the dominant religion. I was disappointed with the lack of detail in what I found. Do you know of a book on this matter which covers the decline of more traditional Roman religions and the rise of Christianity?
>>8633632
Nietszche
>>8633632
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, and David G. Hunter, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Clark, Gillian. 2004. Christianity and Roman society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Fox, Robin Lane. 1986. Pagans and Christians. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Hopkins, Keith. 2001. A world full of gods: The strange triumph of Christianity. New York: Plume.
Rousseau, Philip. 2002. The early Christian centuries. London: Longman.
>>8633721
And of course, Gibbonn who wrote both a great history of the matter in Decline, and an absolutely devastating defense of his position in
A Vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London: J. Dodsley, 1779).
Should I spend 200 euro books from Amazon, I can't really go to the effort of looking in local bookshops
>>8633630
Pirate epubs.
For the record these are the books i'm looking at.
Gallic Wars
Pride & Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Complete works of Oscar Wilde
Complete works of Shakespeare
Collected poems of John Montague
Inherent Vice
Gravity's Rainbow
The Crying Of Lot 49
I, Claudius
Augustus
Butcher's Crossing
Stoner
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The complete poems of John Keats
Collected poems of W.B. Yeats
Ivanhoe
Ben Hur
The Aeneid
The Iliad
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Fight Club
The Catcher In The Rye
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
A Clockwork Orange
Catch-22
>>8633630
One great thing about local bookshops is you find some really great local/national content (relevant social/political/economic stuff).
Also, you can find pretty much any classic at a used book store at a low price so no need to waste money buying new (unless you are looking for a specific edition/translation).
Why didnt he get a gf?
to intelligent for gf
>>8633608
His mama wanted him to be hardcore but he didn't
How did he write if he was blind?
It's October, which feels like a pretty magical time of year and I've been reading mostly work concerning the material world lately, so I feel its time to take a break and get into some otherwordly shit.
Anyone know some good places to start?
I'm mostly interested in Northern European stuff. Paganism and runes and all that stuff, but I'd like to hear what /lit/ has found interesting.
>>8633597
Italia, that's from where Evola comes~
Alchemy
Solve Et Coagula - The Great Work of Alchemy
https://youtu.be/711GUvU06eY
Exploring The Hermetic Tradition (Terence McKenna)
https://youtu.be/6FdpzXcNuH4
Hermeticism & Alchemy (Terence McKenna)
https://youtu.be/-YNdBpYh1eA
Hermetism, Gnosticism, & Neoplatonism. Doctrines of Hermes Trismegistus
https://youtu.be/AS8QL5crSHE
An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy
In Our Time - History of Alchemy
https://youtu.be/UgwyVqEGj1k
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations. The most famous alchemical text is the Emerald Tablet, written around 500BC and attributed to the mythical Egyptian figure of Hermes Trismegistus. Among its twelve lines are the essential words - “as above, so below".
With Peter Forshaw, Lecturer
The Great Work (0 - Prologue - The Science of the Secret)
https://youtu.be/WOjPyNLvpA4