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>>9757381
My question was, What makes a philosophical fiction book "Philosophical Fiction". Also, who painted this?

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The category melts about. "Legit" philosophical fiction is written by a philosopher, less legit would have a prominent philosophical theme, likely with two dimensional archetypal characters. If there is another overriding theme that puts the philosophical message on the back burner, I'd probably call it something else.
Pater's Marius the Epicurean is of the second type. Great prose, beautiful settings. Simple characters.

Wenzel Hablik is the painter

>>9757494
But what makes a theme not philosophical? If the theme is "War is Bad", wouldn't that be philosophical also?

Because his books has sex, nihilism, metaphors, allegories, classical music and a lot of non sensical sex.

epic troll post op!!! i am very frustrated by what you have written!!!

A typical murakami story goes like

yare yare, boku wa shasei shita

>>9757055
>The world is everything that is the case
>autism
>autism
>autism
>Wwhooooaaaa cool logic symbols!!!
>autism
>autism
>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

>>9757073
>sentence from the intro placed at the end
>ad hominem
>ad hominem
>ad hominem
>pretending to have read the book for a (you)
Where here (you) go kid.

>>9757085
hehe all according to plan, faggot

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one option: baudrillard is all about this

in his marxist phase he critiques capital in the conventional leftist form, and in his later nietzschean/reactionary phase he critiques what he calls the "reality principle" itself. in order for the sign to work it has to bear some correspondence with that which it signifies, which ofc it does not and can not. signs refer only to other signs
>thus the need for *taste*

so basically his right-wing critique of capital is a critique of a postmodern/late-capitalist/consumer society so in love with itself that it disappears completely into an irony that becomes real, since people can no longer tell the difference between that which is real and that which is not

if everything is capital, wat do? aristocratic disdain for plebs, weird journals, remoteness, arch sarcasm, crippling loneliness &c

the right-wing critique of capitalism to my mind basically means the surrender of term Capital as an ultimate signifier and a shift back towards that which capital is supposed to fulfil but cannot: the desire for the sex/death/god stuff that even the great taste of a chicken mcnugget cannot satisfy fully
>unless, i suppose, you eat a lot of them and cover the room with projectile vomit, then laugh hysterically as the police drag you away
>brb going to mcdonalds to try this thesis

>>9756065
>that quote
>You can't ignore me I'm ignoring you!
The postmodern decadence is really droll.

>>9756011
>any right-wing critiques of capitalism.

pound

Bump. What if Baron becomes our last president and finally installs a monarchy?

>>9755803
i'm going to attempt to read Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey from cover to cover on twitch if you want to listen my channel is simply called doodsrsly. I'm pretty bad at reading out loud so I'm sorry if my inability to read fancy time travelling words makes you cringe.

read along with me

>>9756928
I ordered the book. Should be getting here next week. I'll check out your channel then.

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yes

low quality bait

>>9755492
You'll notice that the people who particularly dislike Holden are often angsty and immature young people. Typically they object to his insincerity and cynicism

if you want kindness go somewhere that reinforces kindness via having your name attached to your posts

this is an environment that allows brutal honesty to exist and thank god. if you feel bad about something you enjoy because someone else doesn't like it it's your own fucking fault for being stupid.

I didn't even read 80% of your post. fuck off. this is not your environment.

>>9755432
Even the threads themselves are starting as Nick Land's AI bot copypastas!

>>9755458
what a stereotypical response
kill yourself

You take the book, sit down, and fucking read.
Stop trying to find ways to do things that aren't just doing them.

>>9755071
ADHD medication

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>>9755081
Thanks, I just read 50 pages from Stoner.

>>9752906
At 21, I'm a STEM brainlet

The Meditations

24-25. atlas shrugged. not even kidding and dgaf.

When I was a kid

My aunt was a teacher and would always read me books when I stayed over. Good stuff too, like Roald Dahl and Chris van Allsburg

because they didn't have writing, paper, and newports?

>>9752499
They are busy working and starving to death.

>>9752499
Because they didn't know or care about literature

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>PhilisophyInsights
>Almost no videos on philosophy and even fewer by philosophers
What did they mean by this?

there is not a bigger hack in the world than jordan peterson. he's surpassed sam harris

>>9751724
Why do all the youtube clippers only post videos of Peterson's self-help book advices?

2/10

>>9747932
I hate it, it's cheesy looking. I would spit in your face and leave if I saw this crap.

>>9747932
2/11

>>9746874
Everything pre-20th century could be considered "right-wing" these days.

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St. Petersburg Dialogues

stop being a memevermin

You probably need to clarify your request a bit more

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>/autodidact/ Core Curriculum
/autodidact/ Core Curriculum

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>The Basics of Reading: Nonfiction & Fiction
How to Read a Book – Mortimer Adler
The Art of Fiction – David Lodge

>The Basics of Critical Thinking, Writing, and Learning
Creative & Critical Thinking – W. Edgar Moore
Thinking, Fast & Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The New Oxford Guide to Writing – Thomas Kane
A Mind for Numbers – Barbara Oakley

>Liberal Arts: The Theoretical Minimum
The Trivium – Sister Miriam Joseph
Pre-Calculus – Carl Stitz & Jeff Zeager
Atlas of World History – Patrick O’Brien
Western Philosophy: An Anthology – John Cottingham

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Total: 10 books covering a vast amount of foundational topics. You should be ready to tackle any sort of literature, philosophy, social science, science, etc., with relative ease once you've finished this list. Liberal arts in a nutshell.

>The Basics of Reading: Nonfiction & Fiction
The Basics of Reading: Nonfiction & Fiction

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>How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
Your autodidact journey needs to start somewhere, and since you’re going to be doing a lot of reading, you might as well start here. You'll learn to skim, analyze, and compare all different kinds of texts while squashing bad reading habits and improving concentration. I recommend that you do whatever it takes to thoroughly digest this book, even if it means working up to spending 30 minutes per day reading and practicing annotating while reading. Once you've finished the book and put its advice into practice, you've learned how to effectively read non-fiction, both in analyzing single books and synoptical comparisons between books.

>The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
This is a good place to start before you start reading fiction seriously, so you learn to appreciate the basic language of literature and point them out during your autodidact journey. It provides examples of literary devices and analyzes why they are effective by exposing you to snippets from relevant literature. Combined with “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler, this book will enhance any dilettante’s reading skills and make them well-equipped to tackle literature on their own. Anthology-style books are a theme of this book list, since they serve as eclectic sources of exemplars, which are both effective for teaching and for future reference.

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>The Basics of Critical Thinking, Writing, and Learning
The Basics of Critical Thinking, Writing, and Learning

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>Creative & Critical Thinking - W. Edgar Moore
Most critical thinking textbooks are mass-produced garbage designed not to sharpen the mind but to dull it. As an old-fashioned and comprehensive account of the various methods of thinking, this book is not one of them. It takes a general approach to thinking, taking from history, philosophy, psychology, logic, and some mathematics in order to reframe common problems and make them easier to solve while avoiding typical pitfalls. Unfortunately, this is one of the two books on this list that are hard to find online, so you may need to visit a university library or buy a used copy, or perhaps check out The Art of Reasoning by David Kelley as a substitute. For convenience, I’ve uploaded some sample excerpts and table of contents to inform your decision: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nzrzylohf6vg1ml/AABbd5ie1Rp3d4SYmGH8nFLDa?dl=0

>Thinking, Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman
This book is a continuation of the “cognitive psychology” behind critical thinking, which forces you to ask what you are doing when you are thinking. The brain comes equipped with various “heuristics”, or shortcuts in thinking that were not evolutionarily designed for the modern world. As you might imagine, this leads us to make poor decisions when we’re not aware of how make decisions. Absorbing this book thoroughly would be enormously helpful to cultivating the sort of self-awareness that makes us better thinkers.

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to be continued (part 1)

>>9728679

nah mate its only the intro I'm not even close to done.

>>9728683
Post an excerpt.

>>9728693
The