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How can one claim to be Existentialist and Atheist at the same time?
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How can one be underread and shitpost at the same time?
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>>9684382
Nice argument.
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By being a bitter, resentment-filled brainlet and manlet like Sartre
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Why do so many people hate on Jordan without reading his material?
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It's a mixture of people who disagree with his anti-SJW stuff and people who are sick of seeing him be the only philosopher /lit/ talks about
It's a shame really because he has a better understanding of Jung than just about anyone currently working in philosophy or psychology
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>>9684326
It aligns with their ruling political ideology, critical thinking is the enemy.
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>>9684338
>It's a mixture of people who disagree with his anti-SJW stuff and people who are sick of seeing him be the only philosopher /lit/ talks about
No, it's that his work has the intellectual rigour of an SJW and he doesn't understand philosophy or his own discipline or specialization. He's not a philosopher: he's a Jungian psychologist who wants to decry postmodernism, which includes Jungian psychologists. Pretty sure he doesn't want to decry it enough to turn in his paycheque or credentials either; even if he did want to be illogical, he certainly still wants to get paid for memeing badly. Are we sure he's not a jew?
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What is some good anti-colonialist literature
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>>9684307
I don't think it really exists because native cultures are still mostly doing nothing.
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>>9684332
Maybe that's because of colonialism
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Why isn't Irish, Greek, or Polish literature considered "post-colonial"?
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Which version of The Bible does /lit/ recommend reading?
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>>9684288
The Greek one.
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Pic related is everyone who doesn't recommend the KJV
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>>9684288
I recommend The God Delusion so you can be as enlightened as me.
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Is Jung the only person whose books he has read?
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dem poost modoonists markksistss
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He's also at the very least read Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, Piaget, and the Bible.
>roughly speaking
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yeah right, he got all of Jung second-hand through Joseph Campbell
what's the /lit/ equivalent of this album?
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>>9684218
Finnegan's Wake
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>>9684271
why anon?
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>>9684276
new language based on feeling and sound.
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Anton Chekov?
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>>9684105
a genius, was a bit disappointed in how fucking grim and depressing he is ALL THE FUCKING TIME. can't write a full length story or novella worth a shit. The Black Monk was pretty good, i thought. I prefer Turgenev or Gogol for my short stories. Leskov aint bad.
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>>9684118
you sound like a woman
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>>9684127
and you sound like a mincing faggot. i'll bet i'm more right than you are. :^)
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This man is your FRIEND
[Derrida]
He fights for FREEDOM
Classically trained and rigorous, Derrida has utmost respect for the established traditions of communication ('writing') and asks only that we consider -- and it is true that we should -- how these traditions are established and whether they are appropriate for their time and place.
Barthes, however, is a total anarchic madman who wants to cut out literature at the roots and salt the earth so nothing grows again. Barthes is the key to all of these problems we have with SJWs asserting their own authority instead of what deconstruction is actually about; openness to the strange life of writing.
Please leave Derrida alone.
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>all of these problems we have with SJWs
Zizek and others of his ilk already shat on muh SJWs a decade ago, why do you think opposition to them is new? Does Peterson mention Derrida in his videos, is that why he's cited so frequently in these kind of threads?
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>>9684034
>Does Peterson mention Derrida in his videos, is that why he's cited so frequently in these kind of threads?
Yes and yes.
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>>9683974
that is a jpg, not a man. idiots like you are why he wasn't photographed for so long.
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>I'm a sick man, I'm a demons (sometimes mistranslated as the possessed) man
How did he get away with this trash, /lit/?
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>tfw the BBC miniseries version of Demons from '67 is unfindable
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>>9683970
Best dosto-book
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>>9683970
>I'm a sick man
Is this a classic of Dovsto?
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I need some books that are fucking crazy.
Unreliable narrator, surreal, violent, that kind of thing. Google doesn't help.pls help. I'm feeling pretty suicidal and I need something to occupy my mind until I fall asleep
Inb4 muh diary, you dweebs ain't got shit on mine.
Inb4 American Psycho
Inb4 Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
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>>9683901
Infinite Jest. DFW, what an absolute madman.
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>>9683906
goddammit
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Maldoror.
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Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
For the court of theTAO TE CHING
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the meme that can be memed is not the true meme
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the meme you step in is not the same meme you stand in
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>>9683873
tao te ching should be the last book you will ever read. if you keep reading books after reading the tao. you did not understand the tao
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Opinions on De Sade and writers inspired mainly by him (e.g. Dennis Cooper.)
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>>9683842
Amy got what she deserved.
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>>9683842
I like The Story of the Eye; it's more romantic to me than anything else I know of.
As for Sade, I've only rred snippets, but from what I know both the man and his writings were worthless and revolting.
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I really hate when people review things on Amazon, and either
1) Review the service/shipping speed/whatever and not the item, or
2) Review the item but still talk about service shit
If you're buying directly from Amazon their service is always fine, and if you're buying from the marketplace there's literally a completely separate review system for your review of the service.
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>visit chain bookstore
>employee hands me a complimentary latte
>hear that the string quartet is playing my favourite Beethoven piece
>get in roller coaster and ride to the poetry section
>see the poet of the day is William Blake
>Blake impersonator is really entertaining
>audience is enraptured and really into it
>everyone gets free copies of his collected work
>get into roller coaster and ride to exit
>notice there's a literary trivia contest going on
>use my experience on /lit/ to win a complete set of William T. Vollmann books
>man walks up to me, says he was really impressed and that he would like to publish some of my work
>ask him who he works for
>"Penguin Classics"
>visit indie bookstore
>smell of weed immediately hits my face
>clerk is a 15 year old kid wearing an Ayn Rand shirt
>ask him where the poetry section is
>groans with disgust and says it's "somewhere in the back"
>try to hop in between piles of old Romance paperbacks
>get distracted by some dogs fucking in the theater section
>trip over a stack of Stephen King novels and get buried under a bunch of Wordsworth Classics
>pinned to the floor
>call for help, but the clerk is distracted by a homeless man trying to steal some erotica
>see a Norton Critical Edition of Shelly's work within reach
>pull out arm and grab it
>feels wet for some reason
>tfw it was soaked in cum
Why do people think indie bookstores are supposed to be so much better?
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>>9683700
Comfy story.
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>>9683700
which chain bookstore?
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>>9683773
Indigo (Canadian store)
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What are some books that tell stories that take place long after the end of the world and deals with different arising societies aspiring to rebuild it in different ways?
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I know a few post-apocolyptic books but most are in odd speech
And they don't really concern different factions
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foundation
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diying earth
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For those who loved this book, why did you? What makes it so great and popular? I'll be starting it soon. Give me your sales pitch.
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>>9683683
Just read it if you want to for gods sake. It doesnt matter to me whether you read it or not so why would I give you a sales pitch?
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>>9683691
I do want to, I just want to hear other people's thoughts. If it doesn't matter to you then don't tell me.
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>>9683683
Why color your reading of a classic text with /lit/ babbling?
What is read in naivety, ignorance, and with imagination is what sticks with you the most. The time for /lit/ babble and sophistication and analysis is after the magic is gone, after you've read the main core of books.