When was the last important philosophical book written?

>>9657375
never yhu fuk

>>9657375
My next book will be the last important philosophical book of western civilization

>>9657471
No mine

1996

>>9657384
Republic is fantastic but whats with all of that geometry stuff in Timaeus, I had no idea what was going on at that part.

>>9657375
It's questions like this that make it obvious you don't study philosophy at an academic institution.

life and action by Michael Thompson in like 2012. Probably other good works since then too. Lots of them.

It's important work if you're a philosopher. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature was important across areas of study.

If you're looking for a work of philosophy that is rigorous, it likely won't be accessible enough to influence society at whole. If it's accessible enough to influence society as a whole, it likely isn't rigorous enough philosophy.

Someone like Rorty or Wittgenstein or Foucault who produce massive influence beyond their own field of study are extremely rare, more so as departments become more and more specialized.

When was the last important chemistry book written ? Your average person couldn't answer this any better than yours about philosophy.

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>>9657521
mfw when the fantods set in

>>9657471
Goonan?

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>>9657375
No idea.

Here's the last one I read though

>>9657597
>It's questions like this that make it obvious you don't study philosophy at an academic institution.
People study non-STEM subjects on 4chan?

>>9657597

Perhaps both you and OP are conflating two completely different notions of importance together. Did Rorty conceive dissolution or did times of dissolution conceive Rorty's ideas? Maybe philosophical bodies of works (specially large compendiums) are only important insofar as they crystallize, internalize and constitute ambient noise into clear sound. But the noise, is what did the influencing.

>>9657614
Why the fuck would you study STEM unless you're dumb + poor and need all the help you can get in receiving a living wage out of undergrad ?

>>9657627
Interesting sophistry.

>>9657638
It's the only thing worth studying.

>>9657614
>>9657627
>>9657638
>>9657641
why is everyone on this board always going on about school?

Fuck school, majors, grades, uniforms, debt, stiff wooden chairs and bureaucracy. No life to be found there. Whatever this S T E M shit means is unimportant.

>>9657638
STEM majors require a shitload of intelligence. My friends taking business can't even look at my software engineering homework

>>9657641
philistine spotted

>>9657657
>my friends who don't know code can't even do my CS/CoE homework !!

No shit smartass. And business majors, really ? Business majors are just Econ majors who can't pass calc and do econometrics. Econ majors would be accounting majors if they were talents at math:

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>>9657655

For most here, "there" means "here". Someone living in a shack atop of a mountain would probably have a lot of mountain analogies to everything

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>>9657375

>>9657655
Name one important post-ww2 writer that hasn't gone through some years of formal education beyond high school .

Even someone "radical" or out there like Burroughs went to an Ivy League university.

Ken Kesey, father of the west coast acid movement did grad studies at Stanford.

Denis Johnson got an MFA.

We in the Program Era now bitch

1927

>>9657682
If you think school is important then you might as well relinquish within yourself the ability to give weight to your opinion beyond the conventionally sanctioned apparatus that we are all inextricably drawn into like some nightmarish vortexial spiderweb. Go ahead and give weight and moral sanction to the status quo. What a people's champion. What an enigma. What a catalyst for something new and relevant. What a necessary evil. What a [insert another sarcastic thing here].

>>9657691
What a way to dodge a simple question

>>9657680
english translation when

>>9657701
I don't know nor care about the educational background of the authors I enjoy. If anything they all had contempt for the experiences they were forced to endure that went by the name of education.

There were these things called libraries, and any mind so inclined (inspired by the holy spirit) would naturally seek out the information and imagery that kept that flame alive, no social apparatus that dictates your life from age 7 to 17 necessary.

>>9657716
Not the guy you're replying to, but...
Is this actually how you speak? You sound very pretentious and not fun.

>>9657375
2011. On What Matters by Derek Parfit.

>>9657724
content: dismiss
delivery: critique

>>9657716
>I don't know nor care about the educational background of the authors I enjoy. If anything they all had contempt for the experiences they were forced to endure that went by the name of education.
Faulty logic there buddy. Doesn't matter what you think of it, fact is most of them were shaped by higher education. Doesn't matter what they thought of it either.

>>9658014
Everyone is shaped by their past to some extent. We might as well say that since everyone at some point probably experienced [X] in their past, this is now a prerequisite to genius. Nothing doing there. And it does matter what they themselves thought. Otherwise why the hell would you read their books or care what was written in them.

>>9657703
日本語ができないやつらは生きるべきではない

>>9658071
That's a bit harsh. Though I understand the sentiment. Feels good to be able to watch the raws a day or weeks before the plebian masses.

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>>9657682
>comparing 19th and early 20th century education to modern day colleges and universities
Lol

In terms of far-reaching influence and including not just books but also papers, I think you might argue the following:
Wittgenstein - Tractatus
Quine - Two dogmas of empiricism

>>9658117
At this point, you might as well settle for an online degree.

>>9658095
>watch
Anime is too fucking boring and stunts intellectual development. Fans end up worshiping the same few anime for years (eg. Evangelion, Lain, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu) and never get better at understanding narratives (or why a complex plot is not the same as a complex narrative).

>>9658154
I find myself reading manga more than watching lately but I would never wholesale deny the medium.

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you can't argue with this

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>>9657690
/thread

Being Noone by Thomas Metzinger

>>9657597
Is this bait? You cannot possibly be that retarded?
>>9657375
Philosophy died together with Germany, OP. Heidegger is the last significant figure.

>>9657375
The Art of the Deal

>>9658318
Probably this because it is insight to Trump. Much like Meditations was to Aurelius.

Not even being ironic.

>>9658154
Anime fans need to stop caring so much about mere plot and pay more attention to the narratives of the characters.

>>9658159
Above post was meant for you.

>>9658335
And pseuds need to stop assuming that there are characters.

>>9657375
Sam Harris activated my almonds and showed me that philosophy is garbage.

>>9657680
Is this Naruto?

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everything else is memeshit

>>9657682
The academicization of literature is why it's so shitty at the moment.

>>9657682
>tfw brainlet that couldn't get into uni
i'll be failure for my life i just know it.

>>9658117
This desu. Modern degrees in creative writing just result in mediocrities.

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>>9657375

Ross Jeffries. Speed Seduction, 1990.

Attaining truth is simple; attaining pussy -- that's the real problem,

>>9658431
The academicization of philosophy has brought it to a grinding halt, people like >>9657597 are straight up lying to make it seem like philosophy is still vibrant, in reality contemporary philosophers are more like vultures picking at the straps left over by mathematicians and neuroscientists.

>>9658438
>>9658466
Academicization of these fields has only improved the work in these fields.

Again, almost every great thinker or writer, in any field, has studied said field at a higher institution in the post wwii era. This is not up for debate, it's a fact. I don't see how people could possibly think it's bad that writers are educated in their craft; the Program Era in literature has led to some of the most amazing works in the field, whether experimental or otherwise.

Without knowledge of literary history, critical theory, and other topics, you don't get writers like Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Jennifer Egan, etc.

This is an even dumber point to make than philosophy, especially since people have been doing things similar to doctoral theses/dissertations since Kant's time. Rigorous fields require rigorous study. This is why you will not find a single worthwhile philosopher in the past 100-200 years that did not study at a university.

>>9657641
yikes

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>>9658675
by extension, I will never be relevant.

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>>9658675
You've fell for the /lit/ trap of thinking the philosophy discussed here is in any way related to academic philosophy.

pic related is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest living philosophers yet receives zero discussion on /lit/.

>>9658675
if Jennifer Egan is your prime example of a great Program Era writer, then the program should be destroyed. Pynchon doesn't even fit - all he has is a BA in engineering and then traveled around working different jobs like writers used to. If anything, Pynch shows that you can write without a degree

>>9658988
>has a degree
>you can write without a degree
<->

>>9657471
Thank God you'll never write it.

>>9658711
>You've fell for the /lit/ trap of thinking the philosophy discussed here is in any way related to academic philosophy
Anon gets his education not from books but from a forum about books.

>>9658997
>Again, almost every great thinker or writer, in any field, has studied said field at a higher institution in the post wwii era.
>said field
That post you responded to was dumb, but but so was the one he responded to. The program era has resulted in nothing other than literary sterility, and the academicization of all the arts has helped to spawn cultural nihilism among the general population.

>>9659255
Cool. Got anything to back that up? Figured.

>>9658711
>>pic related is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest living philosophers
only according to autists in academia

>>9659255
>cultural nihilism

Every time.

>Kripke
>Searle
>Chomsky
>Sloterdijk
>Habermas
>Fukuyama
>Nussbaum
>Badiou
>Zizek

>not important contemporary philisophers who wrote important works
>constanza.jpg

>>9659599
>Chomsky
>Zizek
>important philisophers

>>9659639
Chomsky is a retard. Zizek is important though.

For me, Philosophy as it truly mattered all ended with Wittgenstein.

>>9659599
Why are these people not discussed on /lit/?

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Witty was pretty good, but it was all downhill from this.

>>9657375
>When was the last important philosophical book written?
i don't know

>>9660857
Please don't reply to my posts anymore unless you can contribute to this hub of intellectualism. Thanks for understanding! :)

>>9660818
Because people here would rather dawdle in the ambiguous mesh of language that is continental philosophy, than to bother trying to learn about the more precise branch of analytic philosophy, which they dismiss as "autist", simply because they're scared to be exposed as idiotic.

whenever I complete the last volume of my diary desu

>>9660870
>Please don't reply to my posts anymore unless you can contribute to
ok

>>9658711
>pic related is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest living philosopher
the guy is a literal autist who writes mostly minutia about logic and math. there's nothing to talk about because he says nothing that matters to anyone

>>9660901
>the guy is a literal autist who writes mostly minutia about logic and math

That's called philosophy. Pro-tip: the shit you call "philosophy" would get laughed out of the philosophy department harder than Derrida was in the 90's.

>>9660915
Derrida entered the department and everyone instantly sucked his dick friend.

>>9660915
>That's called philosophy.
*Analytical philosophy

Continental philosophy is a thing, Anglo.

>>9660937
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/varia/Derrida_Letter.htm

Literally
Laughed
Out

>>9660944
>Continental philosophy is a thing
Barely, Continental Europe is producing next to zero humanities research.

>Anglo
Sadly no.

>>9660915
pro-tip I graduated from an anglo department retard

read more before you stake your whole identity on being "anti-derrida"

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>>9657597
On What Matters is literally having its last volume edited for publication as we write this, and it's already considered a monumental work from the first two volumes and privately circulated manuscripts of the third

>>9657691
>implying you can teach yourself more than professors who have dedicated their life to rigorous study, have multiple published books, and can read ancient languages.

As my philosophy professor said, beat them at their own game. The institution may be flawed but it gives you access to a conversation that has been transpiring for over 2000 years. Take what's valuable to you and forget the rest.

>>9657375

It hasn't been written yet

>>9660954
>M. Derrida's career had its roots in the heady days of the 1960s and his writings continue to reveal their origins in that period. Many of them seem to consist in no small part of elaborate jokes and puns (‘logical phallusies’ and the like), and M. Derrida seems to us to have come close to making a career out of what we regard as translating into the academic sphere tricks and gimmicks similar to those of the Dadaists or of the concrete poets.
>Many French philosophers see in M. Derrida only cause for silent embarrassment, his antics having contributed significantly to the widespread impression that contemporary French philosophy is little more than an object of ridicule.
lel

>>9658997
An engineering degree barely teaches you how to write

>>9657375
The last essay I wrote before I dropped out of 10th grade.

>>9657375
ray bradbury fahrenheit 451
is this considered as a philosophical book?

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>>9657375
2011. This will be remembered in centuries, intelectuals from spain and europe have been masturbating to this book for 5 years now

>>9657375
Whatever's the last thing Zizek or Rushdie wrote.

>>9662373
care to summarize it?

>it's not about plato

dang

>>9657597
philosophy is obsolete

>>9662421

Well, it's about two concepts:

-A positive definition of a Republic, instead of defining it as the opposite of a monarchy. In the last part of the book he describes the structure of what is probably the best concept of a constitutional republic to date

-"Collective political freedom" (and this is the most important discovery of this book) as the base of a real democracy and of all rights and liberties of a nation.

It's a bit dense but is one of the best political science book i've ever read, it also critizices what he calls the "parties states", so if you live in europe is a must read.

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>>9657378
He's right, though many texts have been written that fire the neurons into loops that carry more weight that a Higgs boson could ever give.

>>9662440
ty anon

>>9657375
If it could be named ITT it would still be too important.

>>9659255
Pinecone got a degree in English, not Engineering you idiot. He wanted to study grad level engineering afterwards but got rejected.