Philfag here. I have a philosophy professor at Harvard who I feel was intellectually abusing his philosophy undergrads. He assigned us inhuman amounts of philosophy homework and taught his classes like we were born already doing graduate philosophy while still gestating in our mother's wombs. He even smugly enjoined (probably jokingly though) that anyone who wasn't at the level of Wittgenstein or Kant intellectually speaking would be better off dropping the course; that, he said would intellectually behoove them in the long-run. He forced us to read the Critique of Pure Reason in less than a week and a half, expecting anyone who couldn't symbolically or modally represent the chapters on Transcendental Aesthetic, to wit, Kant's proofs of space-time being an a priori form of intuition that made experience possible, that they'd be dropped from the course de facto: they'd receive, automatically, the lowest grade.
Not only that, but when we couldn't represent parts of Hegelian logic using KripkeāPlatek set theory in class he'd call us idiots or retards. Obviously he has tenure or else he wouldn't say those things. If we riposted with anything, he'd say the Holy Ghost is watching and he's gonna send us to hell. This, patently meant that we'd get a low grade. Everyone already knew that. It was almost impossible to get an A in that class unless you were able to turn the whole field of philosophy on its head. For him an A was completely original work, Socratic/Kant-tier.
The class is dehumanizing, dreadful, and I have no other choice but to keep learning with him because my focus intertwines with his. At the same I love philosophy, but I can't handle learning with this guy. He's even blackmailed students who didn't complete their homework, and literally stopped teaching the class one day to find a student who didn't show up. It's fucking ridiculous. I need help.
Pic related, he made this face every time we were doing something wrong or just before he'd call us a "Derridean idiot."
What should I do?
>>8093663
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If this is true i wish i was in your class.
stay in the class so you can write a book about him afterward. make sure to also write in some eccentric/lovable teacher who gets fired by the big bad boss. also write in a love interest with a big butt. then, make lots of money.
>Tfw actually starting with the Greeks
So what am I in for, friendos?
>>8093648
A pretty good time
>buying penguin's republic
Nice one!
>not realizing that starting with the greeks is a meme developed by autists
have fun with the homework
Literally everyone who says Camus' books are crappy have only read one of his books (The Stranger) and translated to English.
Just pick up The Fall. The whole thing is just a beautiful monologue. It's brilliant, even in English.
>>8093086
Sartre is smart. Camus is a poo.
>>8093331
Sartre is shit and a tankie.
Camus was good man anarchist, most sensible existentialist.
>>8094897
Camus was an anarchist? I always thought he was very hard to pin down politically, which if I'm not mistaken had a lot to do with why he split with Sartre.
>The two grandfathers of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Carl Jung (1875-1961), both had a deep admiration for Nietzsche and credited him with many insights into the human character.
what did they see in him?
He wasn't a nazi prick, he just refuted nihilism - something almost every poster on this board fails to do personally
>>8091936
He gives incredible insight into emotions like resentment and the animal side of man.
>>8091947
Lol spoork lmao x))))
About to read this.
What am I in for?
It's the bomb
Explosive good fun
>>8090640
Religious poetry, most of it in a positive tone
A great number of characters familiar to the Judeo-Christian narrative, in stories significantly different from the Bible originals
>>8090640
considering this is 4chan you'll probably be in for the surprise that nowhere does it ever condone murder
Metamorphosis by Kafka.
He's a whiny little snot and just plane miserable throughout the entire book. So much so that even when he turns into an insect, I was still thinking "dude, quit being a little bitch."
And knowing that Kafka was equally whiny and miserable... He basically wrote a book with himself as a main character.
I have a hard time not finishing things, yet I was still unable to complete this short book. It was just too much. I stopped reading near the end, and a college classmate filled me in on the conclusion.
I just started Angels & Demons because I wanted a comfy adventure mystery but I didn't expect it to be filled with cliches right from the very beginning. But I'll enjoy it anyway. Because I want to.
I guess /lit/ is just bait now.
>>8087589
I read that and then the Da Vinci code when I was in high or intermediate school and enjoyed them.
Post 'em, /lit/.
rate me
>>8070778
eric, simply eric.
Does anyone have the full text of julius evolas defense speech at his trial?
>>8099763
DEUS VULT!!!
>>8099763
Was he persecuted for misunderstanding Nietzsche or just being a huge fag in general
>>8099779
Thanks faggot, I'm trying to write a historical essay, and I don't have time to ask those fags at the fash archivers on cripplechan because they literally take weeks to answer.
r8?
>>8099665
What are you implying with that chart? What do you mean with sort of smart?
Unnecessary.
I predict that your thread will get a couple nibbles and die quietly.
>>8099665
true
Hey /lit/ what is the best order to read the KJV? I was thinking of reading it back to front normally. Would this be a bad move? I've seen a lot of Bible reading plans but they seem to leave out large sections of it in favour of choice parts only.
>>8099636
>back to front normally
whoops
front to back normally**
>>8099642
I don't play video games, nor do I watch anime. I'm actually a reader, I just haven't gotten around to reading this yet and it's beyond time.
Stop this memekid shit; it's pointless.
Just picked this up. Ever read it? What did you think?
>>8099520
Why don't you just fucking read the book, you retard?
>>8099520
self help shit tier
>>8099527
I was hoping I could get by without
Is this the best novel set in New England?
>>8099502
Honestly even Stephen King is better for that.
>>8099502
No, but her Age of Innocence might be the best gilded age New York work.
What do you guys prefer? I plan to pass on my books so I buy hard cover copies and try to take good care of them. Paperback just seems to get worn even if you're careful with it. Inb4 ebooks
>>8099382
I prefer paperbacks because they're much easier to hold while reading and I don't get all butthurt when I inevitability thrash them.
I get hardcovers of only my favorites
Hardcover if the binding is sewn (Knopf, Doubleday, Everyman's, Library of America, Folio, etc.)
>>8099382
>Hardcover
Favorite novels, gifts, books you plan on using as decor only
>I was vexed and confused. The trip was beginning to seem tiresome and reckless, the cold was uncomfortable, the ride furious, and the result impalpable. And afterward--the cogitations of a sick man--if we did reach the indicated goal, it wasn't impossible that the centuries, annoyed at having their origin infringed upon, would squash me between their fingers, which must have been as age-old as they. While I was thinking along those lines we were gobbling up the road and the plain flew under our feet until the animal became fatigued and I was able to look more calmly at my surroundings. Only look: I saw nothing except the vast whiteness of the snow, which by now had invaded the sky itself, blue up till then. Here and there a plant or two might appear, huge and brutish, the broad leaves waving in the wind. The silence of that region was like a tomb. It could be said that the life of things had become stupidity for man.
>Had it fallen out of the air? Detached itself from the earth? I don't know. I do know that a huge shape, the figure of a woman, appeared to me then, staring at me with eyes that blazed like the sun. Everything about that figure had the vastness of wild forms and everything was beyond the comprehension of human gaze because the outlines were lost in the surroundings and what looked thick was often diaphanous. Stupefied, I didn't say a word, I couldn't even let out a cry, but after a time, which was brief, I asked who she was and what her name was: the curiosity of delirium.
>"Call me Nature or Pandora. I am your mother and your enemy."
Is he the best american writer we have?
He writes like a woman.
>>8099328
I agree. His writing is as corny and flamboyant as it gets.
what a faggot
Anybody have a chart for getting into DFW?
>>8099315
Just start reading Infinite Jest.
Essays -> Stories -> Novels
The rubbish bin.