Hey /lit/ what are some books about/ that stimulate critical

Foucault might do the trick. Reading his books and some Sartre when I was in h.s. stimulated my ability to I guess deconstruct.

>>9593743
Reading Sartre just made me bitter and negative rather than skeptical. I'm still recovering.

Focault may well be worth a try though

>>9593743
What sartre did you read. I've read the short essay EIAH and might read one of his books. Everything he said in EIAH seemed pretty obvious and basic to me (no one designed you, so you create your own rules for yourself), but maybe that's because I grew up in a post-existentialist world...? I wonder what he wrote that would inspire critical thinking

>>9593755
I would say that Foucault is very good at criticizing assumptions which for the most part go uncriticized. He owes a lot to the existentialists and their advent of constructivism vs. essentialism

>>9593765
I read a collection of his essays called "Essays in Existentialism" which included EIAH and various others; to me it was the only good experience I had reading his work. Good editing and curation.