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Philosophy and Politics 2016-08-06 22:33:22 Post No.8368489
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Why is it that post-structuralists are usually left leaning while neo-positivists are the opposite.
What drives this correlation?
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>>8368489
>neo-positivists are the opposite.
I don't believe that.
Prove your claim.
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>>8368489
Post-19th century philosophy is fuckin' trash.
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>being an analytic philosopher
>doing autistic math problems with words for a century with literally nothing to show for it
>unity of science is dead
>positivism is dead
>neo-positivism is a joke
>anything called "analytic ______" (metaphysics, marxism, etc.) is always a joke
>wanting to be a mathematician this badly and not just becoming one
god particles
SOUNDCLOUD GENERAL 2016-08-06 22:06:23 Post No.8368400
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https://soundcloud.com/vickqtoure/1a-1
Psychedelic mashup featuring Kanye, Hans Zimmer, Clark and Beyonce and some other stuff.
>Mashup
>rap
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Wrong board faggot
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>>8368400
Welcome to /lit/, mothercucker.
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Pleb fuck, back to your board.
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What is the hardest, most challenging philosophy book you have read 2016-08-06 22:06:19 Post No.8368399
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What is the hardest, most challenging philosophy book you have read
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or have attempted to read?
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Anything by Kant gives me a headache.
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Not exactly challenging, but it seems as though every single excerpt was carefully chosen to be boring and obtuse to the new reader.
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The Critique of Pure Reason
Timaeus
phenomenology of Spirit
Anti-Oedipus
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Best William Faulkner books?
>Pic related
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light in August
go down moses
as I lay dying - 94 hours
the sound and the fury
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>>8368466
any bad ones?
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>>8368395
Absalom, Absalom was god-tier until Quentin started talking, did Faulkner really have to give him so many chapters?
Also one of the chapters, where Quentin's dad narrates, is rendered literally pointless because it turns out his theories were wrong because he didn't know the full story. This was probably the intention, but it still sucks.
As I Lay Dying is his best work for sure, it's the most perfect one. The Sound and the Fury would be perfect if it wasn't for Quentin's chapter which wasn't done that well.
>author is a woman
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>>8368234
I read a book written by a woman once and it was literally shit, I thought it was a meme...
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>>8368242
>literally shit
>anon still has trouble remembering the swirly incident where he got called a woman for reading books
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>>8368234
>thread is cancer
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I'm generally a shut in person with a negative self-view,
now I do find that reading books helps me to put certain situations in a different
perspective. Which books do you guys recommend to feel positive about life?
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>>8368232
But you're right.
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That picture makes me so mad. Why can't she fucking read the books. Why does she have to put her ass on them. Women, seriously.
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>>8368256
>how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you
>doesn't deserve to be smeared by asshole
Most of those books deserve their fate.
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>tfw my Dad walks into my room and bugs me while I'm trying to read some scripture
Is there anything worse than people bugging you while you're trying to read?
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>>8368155
Put the shit down and go get laid, loser
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>>8368168
fpbp
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> For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Does lit have any recommendations for books similar to the King in Yellow?
Other than Lovecraft, just looking for some generally unsettling or disturbing stories.
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>>8367983
If you're a nigger you'll want to read up on those whacky white people (and other weird stories).
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>>8367983
I heard that Algernon Blackwood's good.
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>>8367983
Mr James, Bierce and Ashton Smith.
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Cuáles son algunos libros facíles en español? Yo empecé a estudiar la lengua hace seis meses y pienso que estoy listo para leer una novela. En la biblioteca, solo hay libros que originan en íngles que han estado traducidos, y yo quisiera leer literatura nativa. Compré Cien Años de Soledad, pero es todavía demasiado difícil. Por favor que me recomenden otros libros que originan en español (español méxicano si es posible) y son facíles. Lo siento por mi pobre español.
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>>8367921
Trata 'Don Quijote'.
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YES I WOULD-O LIKE-O UNA BURRITO SOY FAVOR
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>>8367921
does the author need to be spanish or spanish speaking in origin?
So is this book supposed to get good at some point or is it all 'le quirky references'
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how often is this fucking thread posted?
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>>8367897
I do it at least once an hour
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it's good from the very first sentence you piece of shit
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How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?
Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.
Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.
Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.
So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.
Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.
Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.
90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.
Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.
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That last one is a ridiculous thing to say and makes it probably you have a social deficit and/or are extremely uneasy on the eyes.
The rest I can somewhat agree with though.
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You do realise Trump has more shit not going for him than simply saying non-PC things, right?
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why do you fear him
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Don't. 900 pages is a lot.
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>>8367862
J R Is better desu
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-- I.... I don't know..... He who has commanded me ... it's not that I'm afraid, or that I'll be discouraged.... Why, it's like walking around in a darkened room, holdin gmy hands down, and he's holding the only lamp ... asks me to saty where I am, but he walks on, and all I can do is follow, and fall over the corners of the room.... it's like... in these long pauses....... these ellipses of the heart ............................ I'm doodling penises in the corner of the page........
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Went out and bought this today, /lit/
What am I in for? Is it really '/pol/ & /r9k/ - the book'?
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>>8367721
Yeah, a bit of those. But i think the book is overrated actually.
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>>8367734
Why not?
How do I achieve some type of intellectual literary masculinity?
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>>8367688
You're creating a spook, my friend.
Intellect isn't masculine either.
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>>8367688
avoid leftism, continentals, idealism, and egalitarianism
take the redpill and become a real man
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>>8367696
its a friendly ghost desu
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Can one become witty or do you have to be born that way?
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>>8367664
>le epin reddit humour
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>>8367664
>do you have to be born that way?
I have never encountered a witty baby.
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>>8367664
>/int/
fucking gross