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Where do I start with Nietzsche? What order should I read his works in?
>inb4 start with the Greeks (orStirner)
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>>9877867
if you haven't read the Greeks, you have no business reading Nietzsche who constantly references and is explicitly influenced by them.
That being said, the more of him you read the better you understand any of him
He wrote On the Genealogy of Morals with the intention of having the rest of his work more accessible, so I would start with that
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>>9877881
Yeah. I intended to read the Greeks but there's so much of them (I've read some). Thought I'd dive straight into neitzsche then go back to the Greeks then re read neitzsche. I'm not a professional or anything I'm just reading it for a hobby
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>>9877867
You can't start with an author without starting with the Greeks if said author himself started with the Greeks.
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Who were the greatest thinkers of the 20th century? 2017-08-11 02:41:54 Post No.9877861
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Wittgenstein and Heidegger
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New Tunnel thread. Old one was hilarious. Gass is a fucking hack.
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This must be a meme because Gass is an absolute genius of a writer.
Go back to your JK Rowling.
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The worst part is how well this works to make me want to read this book. I feel like in two years McDonald's will be running commercials about how bad there food is just to motivate people to try eating the food. I bet if the gimmick were positioned correctly within a television show it'd work like a fucking charm.
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>>9877808
That's the marketing tactic they used for the emoji movie. It works
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Does qualia derive from the brain and cease existence upon death
What books and texts deal with this question
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le Bible XD
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>>9876352
What the fuck is qualia
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>>9876393
>implying early Christianity and Judaism believe in a literal afterlife and aren't Sadducean readings
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Should I learn Hebrew or Arabic?
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Urdu
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Farsi
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>>9876158
I wanted to study Arabic, but instead opted for French and German. These languages are more related to my mother-tongue, thus making it easier and less time consuming to study - Compared to Arabic, which would require massive amounts of time and effort to adapt to. Plus, Arabic is a highly diverse language, without any real unity between the various dialects. I would be more willing to invest the required time if the Arab world was linguistically unified.
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What should I read next?
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>>9876038
On Chyna!
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>>9876054
Cute
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>>9876038
I recommend also reading a Chomsky book if you haven't already, for an alternative perspective.
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Why does Gen Z hate classic literature?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecmsN8XU0E
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>>9875877
>it's a booktubers episode
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if you didn't like Romeo and Juliet in 8th grade you're a cuck
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>>9875877
Choice comment on the video: "Preach!! I read Wuthering Height because everybody and their mother apparently loves it......I FUCKING HATED IT! lol Catherine is a raging bitch abusing her wimpy husband and Heathcliff is a total lunatic! I don't know why people like it so much...baka"
And another:
"I sometimes think that is exactly why some people love it. I also think that Emily very much wanted us to hate her characters. I personally WANT to care about the characters in books I read. I'm OK with some characters that are unlovable. But EVERY SINGLE ONE? No thanks."
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been awhile since we had an r/books, jbp yt comments thread
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>>9875602
what an uninformed and plebeian opnion
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>>9875602
You forgot "middle-class American women on Goodreads"
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Nothing's better than when they talk about >us
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Alright pseuds, given the surge of anti-DFW vitriol going on on this board in the last year or so, there’s a surprising lack of concrete discussion of DFW’s flaws. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone deliver a sustained, well-informed critique of pic related. So if you hate this book, here’s your chance to state your case against it.
Easy mode:
>only post if you finished the book
>no conflating DFW’s personal life with IJ
>no Bloom
Overall I love the book, but I have my own reservations regarding IJ. For example, all but about one or two characters are flat and lack any real character development. Pemulis is just a punchline, and sometimes just a medium for DFW to dump out his (sometimes flawed) knowledge of mathematics and chemistry. More problematic is Hal’s character development (if he can be said to have any) and how his achieving “sincerity” is only understood by the reader retroactively rather than observed throughout the course of the novel, practically shoehorned into the first chapter, and achieved via a deus ex machina--the moss.
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I guess I'm not really surprised that the boogeyman and summerfags can't construct a critique.
Bump
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>>9875574
nemo me impune lassecit
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>>9875854
Then how about with kindness and a (You), my anon?
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who are the 4 greatest literary giants of all time 2017-08-10 11:48:13 Post No.9875123
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who are the 4 greatest literary giants of all time
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who is your mt. rushmore of literature
in your opinion
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Pliggs, Pernananany, and schitt
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the huge orson welles desu
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>>9875123
Woolf, Faulkner, Borges, Baldwin
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You on this, boys? Opinions?
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>>9874409
facebook for pseuds
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>>9874420
But it's nothing like your usual social media.
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>>9874428
s p e c t a c l e
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The Man in the High Castle 2017-08-10 08:27:25 Post No.9874340
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The Man in the High Castle
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Finished this book today. Very very impressed, honestly it might be one of my favorite novels. Got some questions though:
Why are the Japanese so nice compared to the Germans? They barely do any oppression at all and many of them are reverse weebs. They make sure to express disdain for Nazism at every opportunity. This is in stark contrast to how brutal Japan was IRL. Is it because Germany/Japan are an allegory for USSR/Britain+US?
Why did Paul Kasoura tell Childan to license his jewelry to the lucky charm factory instead of doing so himself? Do you think he was being sincere when he said he liked it?
How do you interpret the ending? How is the book supposed to be "a way out"?
What does it mean that "Germany and Japan lost the war"? Is it a reference to our world or does it mean that the victory was Pyrrhic/meaningless due to upcoming nuclear war?
Why was Abensden sad to find that out?
Also how's the TV show? I only saw the trailer and it looks like it's going to be a conventional alt-history thriller instead of a parody (if you can call it that; see pic related for totally misleading cover) like the novel was, but on the other hand it seems to be positively received and it doesn't look like complete garbage, either.
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Never read the book but the show is nice. Actors have memorable faces and the requisite talent(at least IMO), dialogue isn't bad.
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>>9874359
this is a literature board
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Someone pls dump the 50+ Frankenstein creations of this cover
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>sez
>sez
>sez
>sez
What the FUCK is his problem?!
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>>9874066
Yes, looking back I could have toned it down. On the other hand, it is more apt, phonetically.
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>>9874066
What's yours? That's just what he sed
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>>9874066
I bet you never did the Kenosha, kid.
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread.
What is a good book about the history of ancient Greece, like Beard's SPQR is for Rome?
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Is "Midnight in Paris" the most /lit/ movie?
Not that it is the movie we'd hope our work would be turned into when turned into film or that it was the most inspiring interpretation of any literary work, But the Owen Wilson character's obsession with literature, escaping this void, Caine world he lives in and personally reliving 20s golden age literary Paris in such a corny, cheesy and frankly poorly written way.
>Also he ends up with french literary qt which is dope
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>>9873610
There is this book I'm trying to find (really several books) with several volumes, it's supposed to be one of the biggest books ever written, the cover art is a classical painting split into the different volumes, it's a depiction of some sort of party, feast, or dance. Does it ring any bells?
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>>9873739
In Search of Lost Time?
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Post the cringiest books you unironically liked when you were young.
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the bible
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Skulduggery Pleasant
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>>9871299
the city of bones