What's the smartest book you've ever read?

Rabinow and Stavrianakis' "Designs on the Contemporary: Anthropological Tests" is probably the hardest book I've ever worked through if that's what you mean

>>8735808
The complete works of Aristotle

>>8735808
Can books be smart? I feel like "being smart" implies a certain dynamism that you can't really replicate with something as linear as a book.

>>8735808

Hegel's Logic

>>8735824
Nice analysis

>>8735824
Bad analysis

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smart as insightful? or as cleverly written?

>>8735868
Honestly how can other women even compete

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It was so smart that I did'nt even understand it

Rudin - Principles of Mathematical Analysis
>>8735936
Sorry to be the one to break out to you, but yer an idiot


now that I'm done meming, my answer is Phenomenology of Spirit

>>8735868
so fucking boring.

>>8735808
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Infinite Jest. I knew Wallace had a reputation for intelligence, but I didn't know how much of a heavyweight he truly was. But what was truly amazing about him was that he could make you think (*puts thinking cap on*), make you laugh (*leans back and laughs silently while holding belly*), and make you cry (*moves fist up and down near eye*). That was his genius.

>>8735965
good book, so much more relevant today

>>8735808
my diary desu

Bottom's Dream

>>8735808
The Art of the Deal

>>8735843
Nice, we're organizing a reading group here locally for reading Hegel's Logic
We have a specialist in Hegel to help us.