Do you read philosophy and theory books with the same mood that

Different stuff

>>8952670
i just can't read pure ideology. it has to be filtered through a cultural lens of story and characters.

>>8952670
Totally different. When I study , I'm focused , practically I'm IN there and when I read a novel or something else than academic stuff I'm enjoying it , I'm tasting every bit of a well written novel , be it fiction or non-fiction.

>>8952706

Well, do you think that philosophy and theory is exclusively study?

I mean, for example, Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Ginzburg, Huizinga, Freud, have a strong writing. I, personally, have a lot of pleasure with it.

Man how would you even shelve all those books? It'd take forever to carry them up that shitty ladder.

>>8952736
came here to say something similar

it's a really silly system. everytime you wish to reference something it's up the ladder down the ladder increasing your chance of a slip and injury. why not shelve those books along the lower wall and move these blankets up top?

I read it the same
It actually ruined The Myth of Sisyphus for me, because having already read The Stranger and knowing a bit of Camus' absurdist model beforehand, it made his entire thesis sound like a foregone conclusion.

>>8952722
My dude you gotta be crazy if you think Agamben is nearly as good as a writer as Huizinga (two of my fav philosophers though, which kinda makes you think, would the Homo Sacer Ludens be /v/?