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>>9897014
No he makes far too many logical leaps and reads texts backwards to fit into his theories rather than letting them speak in their own terms. It's cute that he constructed his own little fantasy mythology like Tolkein but its not something a serious reader should strive for.

>>9897070
What logical leaps has he made?

>Jewsph Campbell

What fuck you mean

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>>9896896
Baudrillard, for sure. Check out the Transparency of Evil and the Perfect Crime.

>>9896896
>embracing nihilism
underage b&

>>9896896
stirner if you like the fun kind of nihilism rather than the woe is me kind

fuck, nothing. snapped it the museum. I know it's Henri Eugene Le Sidaner's "In the Garden" from 1901. How can I not find this

>>9896890
Reverse search is very precise. A photo will provide no results. You could've at least cropped it...

The painting pretty boring tho

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We had this exact thread last week.

What's it about?
I don't read much native literature at all. It is in all likelihood a phantom, but I find our culture, be it in movies or novels, to be vulgar, plain and mediocre. We have philosophers such as Bas Haring and René Gude who pride themselves on being folk philosophers.

I don't think there is much depth to be found in our culture. Change my view.

It haven't read a better dutch novel prose-wise, it isn't fancy prose but it's simple, finetuned and stylish. There's no useless sentence or superfluous word in the novel.

Other good dutch works; everything by Nescio is really good and also quite short, so worth a try. Also I like Turks Fruit/Terug Naar Oestgeest by Wolkers, it isn't highflying literature but very colourful and a joy to read.


>>9896838
You come off as a real blowhard

>>9896838
You're probably right, and that is why you might like Hermans. He had also a cynical view on popular culture and the fads of his time, such as communism and antiracism.

>>9896704
Bump for posterity!
X^D

Keep telling yourself this OP.

>>9897406
This was supposed to be satire, but didn't turn out to be good - at all. The satire is based on a biography of Nietzsche. It discussed his notes, his letters to his peers and other philosophers, and how this influenced and shaped his thought. There was also bits on his personal life.

Imagine if a Nietzsche was born in today's age. He would still read books, but it seems rather likely that he would also spend time on places of the internet. Instead of letters to people he knows in real-life, he could be having a lot of exchanges on message boards, could've read certain blogs, etc.

Philosophers make more sense in a historical context when we know what kind of ideas were there at the time. In case of the internet age, a lot of those ideas might be found online. That's the gist of this. That future thinkers are shaped outside of meatspace.

>>9896687
>>9897715
can anyone give me a TLDR?

>>9896571
Schopenhauer wrote a critique of Kant's philosophy, it's an appendix to The World as Will and Representation, maybe it could help you. The most important thing you need to get from Kant is his transcendental aesthetics.
Schopenhauer praises Kant's Prolegomena and recommends reading it before reading the first Critique. Also, he recommends reading the Critique in its first edition.

>>9896535
What are some good bodice rippers for the aspiring bodice ripper reader?

>mfw I buy a 13th century Scottish historical fiction novel
>it turns into a fucking erotica in the 4th chapter
>becomes plagued with poor spelling and grammar
>mfw I still finished it and I don't know why

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>>9897259
Have you tried starting with the Greeks?

Politics - political philosophy
Nichamachean Ethics - ethical philosophy
Metaphysics - Metaphysics

Aristotle's titles are fairly self-explanatory in content friend, just choose the areas you're most interested in and dive in.

>>9896237
Thanks. Are Sadlers videos a good supplemental material to watch along with it?

>>9896221

The Organon. Just buy a collection of his works like the modern library one, it's like $20 and you get: Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric,On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics.

>>9896172
>brazilian
>literature
It's shit.

Just kidding. He's pretty good.

lol. Just kidding. I've never read him.

>>9896189
this

>>9896172
Dom Casmurro is good
I didn't like Quincas Borbas
Bras Cubas is fucking good
His short stories are amazing

Not joking: Infinite Jest.

>>9896153
I Haven't read it yet but check out Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It's Public Domain too!

>>9896153
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull. The writing is academic and dry, but the research is fascinating.

>>9895887
No, but Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series should be.

>>9895894
Add Mein Kampf to that list

>>9895896
And Schopenhauer's On Women

you're gay

Just keep reading, your attention span will slowly increase. Background music will eventually feel like a distraction.