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What would Epictetus think of this book?
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Was this recommended to you on /lit/? If so, that was me. How are you liking it so far?
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>>9619208
They recommended it on /pol/. Very interesting read, the non conventional point of view of the author is thought provoking about the subject of what drives a man. The only thing I didn't like was the pretentious, almost edgy tone of the writing, but I guess it's part of its strategy to present itself in a certain way.
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>>9619205
>cover mentions that that the author has a PHD
dropped
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Are genres like Steampunk dead /lit/? Are there any entries in even related genres like diesel/bio/etc-punk that hold up under speculative fiction, and are at all realistic?
I'm just pained because the whole aesthetic is awesome and makes for a great setting. I read a brilliant manga recently (with meh writing) about basically whale-hunting dragons on flying ships.
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The aesthetic is stupid and so are you. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is fantastic biopunk but it's more of an Indian poverty aesthetic, none of your stupid fucking gears, so you won't like it because you're a fedorable wanky tosspot.
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>caring about the aesthetic of the setting and not the aesthetic of the writing, in a book
Perhaps try /sffg/
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Hey /lit/
I had an exam on The Gay Science by Nietzsche last week but I refused my grade cause it was too low, so I'm taking it again next week
Do you have any resources I can look up to better prepare for it? Stuff about other works of Nietzsche are appreciated as well
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>philosophy course
>exams instead of essays
it just don't make sense
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>>9619118
>Philosophy
>not an inherently oral discipline
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It is just how it's supposed to be.
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>>9619117
In what country can you refuse your grade? What shit is this?
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Are most people just too stupid to handle the philosophical/literary/metaphorical idea of god without turning him into their best friend or some jihadist political force?
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Like it or not, they cannot think like the ancients anymore.
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>>9619073
>he is not best buddies with goodie Goddie
The blood of your babes shall quench the dirt of your land and the blades of our swords.
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>>9619080
Most people never thought to begin with.
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It's over.
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What's over?
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>>9619048
FUCK YOU
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>>9619042
Wasn't even a bad video, shut up
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What books should I leave lying around my apartment if I want people to think I'm a super genius (not just normal genius)?
I'm thinking...
>Being and Time by Heidegger
>The Golden Bough by Frazer
>Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Newton
>The short stories of Anton Chekhov
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Book by Wittgenstein
What else?
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Have a Zettels Traums in the WC
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Finnegan's wake and Green egg and ham side by side
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>>9618968
Some modern books about about quantum mechanics (no pop science), Kant and Hegel in German and Tolstoy in Russian, so people think that you speak multiple languages.
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is this the best book ever written?
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No...
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Adorno and Horkheimer are certainly not as bad as what came later, but, to be honest, I'm just so tired of critical theory and its various derivatives at this point that I'm willing to wait in the PA stacks in the library until Holocaust/Holodomor 2.0 blows overor takes me with it.
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>>9618942
Yes.
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Why do you prefer prose to poetry? 2017-06-10 05:22:11 Post No.9618699
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Why do you prefer prose to poetry?
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Serious answers only pls
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the only reason anybody does is because it's easier
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>>9618699
Nice dubs. I love Charles. I wish I got to be his student.
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All this libtard and alt-reich screeching on the internet has left me tired /lit/. Even here it's getting apparent with the unnecessary racist or antifa posts.
Give me a book that explains the inherent stupidity of politics and why we shouldn't care please, so I can sleep
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if you were reading books regularly this wouldn't be an issue. get off the internet
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>>9618607
3rd positionism, trying to stand aside from the right and left needs to be a definite position, and not just a distaste and nose-holding. If you want to stand outside as some kind of neutral, objective observer, you lose agency and become victim of a politics you've voluntarily abstained.
But sure, the blatant manifestations of politics, in meme, clickbait social media is bogus. Get away from it, cut to the core of the disputes. You'll find yourself leaning one way or another most likely.
But try to maintain honest subjectivity as opposed to neutral objectivity. You can't stand on the outside, but you can do your honest best to understand the enemy as it consciously understands and rationalizes itself. Similarly, try to honestly understand how they rationalize your politics.
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ego and its own
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Greentext the plot of your new novel, it's not like is going anywhere
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>>9618599
I want to post a piece of code that executes and infinite loop
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GOD MONROE WAS SUCH A QT WHY DID SHE GET THE SURGERY?
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>>9618599
Its about a girl who blocks your path. I mean the reader. Its kind of a second person type deal.
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What is the book, or collection of books, that has affected your life the most? Whether or not a text has actually made you change your ways I'm just curious to see what books /lit/ anons are touched by.
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>>9618413
The Bible
My Diary Desu
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His Diary Desu
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Holocaust short literature
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Hey /lit/
So I want to know about any interesting, short stories about the holocaust. Fictional or real are both accepted.
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>fictional
youre opening a can of worms buddy
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>>9618380
i forget which one it is but there is a auto/biography about a guy named (jack?) who survived a bunch of the camps. He was shipped around to basically every death camp. And at like the age of 12 or something when he first entered Auschwitz. It's one of the best ones if you can find it, sorry I dont remember, I read it a while ago
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>>9618380
night by elie weisle is good
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>tfw too dumb to start reading as a hobby
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get the fuck off this board then faggot
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>>9618369
pls help me
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>>9618736
Get a book of short stories to carry around with you so that you get in the habit of reading instead of the habit of using your favorite app or going on the internet
Read Salinger, Joyce, Hemingway, Carver, Kafka, Borges
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Is this quality or am I getting ripped off?
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What about this?
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>>9618337
>Is this quality
It's the book recommended by JBP.
>am I getting ripped off?
It's free.
http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hicks-ep-full.pdf
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>reading strawman arguments by an Objectivist
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Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
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>>9618263
>please leave the board if you're not a caricature of me
Got it
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>>9618263
you used the wrong pic fool
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based tallis-poster