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Good general overview of philosophy before starting with greeks 2016-06-28 23:54:16 Post No.8218236
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Good general overview of philosophy before starting with greeks
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One of the /lit/ "starting with the greeks" guides recommended reading a general overview of philosophy before engaging with the primary sources. Seemed like a reasonable idea to me, but now I can't find the link with book suggestions.
Only title I remember from the list on the page was A New HIstory of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny so I was going to go with that. Good choice or is there a new favorite in town? Thanks.
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>>8218236
Scroll down shitlord.
Don't forget to sage this disgrace of a thread.
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Some of you may already know this by your own common sense. Some of you are too stupid to come to the realization. Some of you are gonna get to it but I'll just break it to you now cause I like you /lit/ezens.
An information bank so readibly available such as Google fucks with your long-term memory making it harder for you to retain valuable information you may come up by in literature which may go against some of you's motive for reading in the first place.
The reason for this is not hard to get at but here's some more info with citations, sperg:
http://academicearth.org/electives/internet-changing-your-brain/
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>>>/sci/
fuck off frogfaggot
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>>8218193
But I'm not /sci/ I'm /lit/.
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Hi
So, I'm interested in this and I think I will start reading him soon, what can you tell me about him ?
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Make sure to read him in French.
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Did this book exist? i can buy or download it?
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http://www.resist.com/Onlinebooks/ZweitesBuch.pdf
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ITT: Books about grammar, style, technique, theory, and writing in general.
I'm curious how much /lit/ knows about these subjects and what they use to improve their own writing or appreciation of literature. I'm preparing to write some fiction myself and would like to learn as much as I can before doing so.
pic related, it's all I have atm
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>>8217711
Classical rhetoric for the modern student - Corbett
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>>8217711
None of them because with contemporary fiction writing it doesn't really matter how technically correct your grammar is so long as it's readable.
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I started a blog for my poetry and I'm working on it.
http://unholyrite.blogspot.com/
What do you think of what I've written so far?
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Ah, OP,
Thy poetry
Is like pee;
It's obvious
That you're in
Some deep doo-doo,
You are in the number two,
Bathing in some urine,
For posting your shit here
Which no one wants to hear;
Reading your poetry aloud is a defilement of the ear
And punishable by up to ten years in jail;
Ah, OP,
One day the great hail
Of the retribution of the wrath of God
Shall thunder down upon your head,
And you'll be dead,
And blood that's red
Shall pour from your head.
Repent, or be damned.
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>Blog has been removed
Why do you do this to me OP?
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Tolstoj - Guerre et révolution: la fin d'un monde 2016-06-28 18:55:39 Post No.8217169
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Tolstoj - Guerre et révolution: la fin d'un monde
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has anyone here ever heard of this?
I think the only editions are the original french one (1906) and the italian one that was published in 2015
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Interesting
Nothing in Russian?
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Thoughts on this guy?
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so good I'd be disappointed if the internet liked him
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ive only read the marquis of umbria but it's good
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What are some books of people turning their lives around?
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>>8216940
Was Hesse the original furry?
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>>8216940
this book made me happy and confident for one day
>Built into the act of return finally was this glittering mosaic of doubt. Something like what Sauncho's colleagues in marine insurance liked to call Inherent Vice
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>>8216789
Even out of context, this is pretty good prose desu.
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He should have called it Zzzzzzzzzzz
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I actually agree, I was really disappointed.
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Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
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Itt talentless hacks
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That is a doctor from the Philadelphia VA Hospital. This thread is a fucking joke.
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>>8216309
That's Kazuo Ishiguro, you fucking pleb
>>8216304
This guy
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Give me a bibliography of linguistics undergrad.
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>>8215870
Oxford:
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/reading_prelims
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What is your opinion on pic related? I'm reading it, and it's pretty cool
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did you follow woods' suggestion to read it "out of order" or did you read it "normally"?
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Honestly, I doubt anyone on /lit/ has read it. I finished Magic Mountain recently and plan on getting to it eventually, after Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus. How far have you gotten? Do you think it'll hold your attention for 1500 pages?
Are there any good books that serve as an interesting and detailed account of modern (21st century) culture, while maintaining a certain quality & while straying away from making cringey references to the internet for the sole purpose of reminding the reader that the author knows what it is?
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>>8215146
Feed.
I know /lit/ shits on genre fiction, but Feed is solid sci-fi that nails mobile/web culture.
Also Brave New World of course.
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>>8215146
>modern culture
>quality
no