Post books everyone who wants to be an intellectual should read.

The stranger - Camus
The plague - Camus

Anti-Oedipus

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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

>>9772637
i thought deleuze was a meme

Magic Mountain

>>9772604
This is not the way to be an intellectual. The intellectual should seek out something he does not know the answer to and work from there. That's my theory, anyways. It's inefficient to just read a bunch of classic books. Work from where you are.

Ficciones by borges
The rings of saturn by sebald

If you're an educationlet, try this to start you off and hopefully get you into the act of thinking.

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>/autodidact/ Core Curriculum
/autodidact/ Core Curriculum

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>The Basics of Reading: Nonfiction & Fiction
How to Read a Book – Mortimer Adler
The Art of Fiction – David Lodge

>The Basics of Critical Thinking, Writing, and Learning
Creative & Critical Thinking – W. Edgar Moore (*)
The New Oxford Guide to Writing – Thomas Kane
A Mind for Numbers – Barbara Oakley

>Liberal Arts: The Theoretical Minimum
The Trivium – Sister Miriam Joseph
Pre-Calculus – Carl Stitz & Jeff Zeager
Atlas of World History – Patrick O’Brien
Western Philosophy: An Anthology – John Cottingham (*)

(*) represent things you can't find online.

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If you're not an eductionlet, then just constantly read good stuff. Maybe read some sort of Western canon I guess? Being an intellectual is a way of being, not something that can be satisfied by any particular list of books.

>If you're not an eductionlet, then just constantly read good stuff. Maybe read some sort of Western canon I guess?
Whats that western canon then? I look for that.

my diary

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Bible

>>9772604
Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler. The title is somewhat misleading in that it is mainly concerned with a philosophy of History; of History as an unfolding of events rigorously determined according to a particular culture's prime phenomenon. Or something. In any case it's a stupendous work of scholarship.

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>>9772604
http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/

>>9774690
this

>>9772667
it's unironically brilliant, YOU'RE the fedora for trying to avoid
>muh normie literature!!

>>9772604
Hesse:
>Books, everyone, who wants to be an intellectual, should read.

>>9772604
Start by The Leviathan from Thomas Hobbes, it explains why the state is a necessary evil and a bunch of other important shit

The Fault in our Stars