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What works should I read and in what order to have a good overview of philosophy?
I'm reading Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, On the Old Saw, and Perpetual Peace. Does /lit/ have any advice for me?
Plato/Aristotle then onto Locke/Berkeley/Hume/Hobbes
>>7232383
and theeeeeen?
If I wanted to say "when compared with the account of X", where X denotes a person, do I include the ' 's ', so as to convey the account 'belongs' to X? Or may I just leave it as their name?
i.e., is it:
"According to the account of Michael"
or
"According to the account of Michael's"?
The specific sentence I am working with is:
"From this, we may extract crucial information regarding Bacon's outlook on language, which appears highly similar to that of Hobbes'....
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It's "According to the account of Michael"
I'll show you another example in dialogue:
"According to the account Michael"
"Who's account?"
"According to Michael's"
>>7232237
ah thank you. So in my sentence, I should omit the apostrophe?
>>7232237
*Whose
I know my lot. Some day my name will be linked to the memory of something monstrous, of a crisis as yet unprecedented on earth, the most profound collision of consciences, a decision conjured up against everything hitherto believed, demanded, hallowed.
The notion of politics will then completely dissolve into a spiritual war, and all configurations of power from the old society will be exploded-they are all based on a lie: there will be wars such as there have never yet been on earth.-
Zarathustra leaves no room for doubt here: he says that it was precisely knowing...
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nietzsche was literally insane. he had syphilis. also, all his books are satire anyway. satire by an insane person. look at his moustache. he didnt have a moustache when he was sane. he went so insane that he forgot how to shave. his sister had to clip his stache for him. see that instrument in his hands? it's a pen. he was in the middle of writing thus spake zarathustra when this picture was taken. his most famous book is literally the shitscrawls of a mind that'd permanently and for all time checked out.
>>7232162
>implying literally everything in the OP didn't come true
>implying WW2 and Nazism weren't the most important development of the 20th century
>implying Nietzsche's ideas weren't critical to building Nazism
get a load of this dude. WW2 produced the greatest technological advances in society that we have seen in a long time
I think I read somewhere that his sister was a Nazi sympathiser and was largely to blame for Nietzsche's ties to Nazism.
please /lit/ rec me some good stuff
READ THE STICKY
>>7231991
why the hatred anon
People Who Eat Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTvJ7MLrKA
25:40 "masturbation is better than sex."
>>7231910
Wtf is this shit I can't understand mr ji jack
>>7231910
>/lit/ - Literature
Wake up, mods
im going to choose to believe this
If there had to be one definitive thing you'd do before committing suicide, what would it be? An act of closure? Poetic revenge?
>>7231836
suicide itself
Probably shitpost on 4chan tbh
>>7231836
Heroin, LSD, Mescaline, Crack, Shrooms, Prostitutes.
Reading Sublime Object atm and it shifts between lucid and convoluted.
>That picture
>Half of the stats are "internet e-peen" comparisons
Here's a Sublime Object for you *grabs dick*
>>7231786
Holy shit Zizek is 64! I was thinking he was mid 40s. That is absolutely mad.
Why?
Because of muh marx?
Also why do you guys hate Nietzsche?
memes
>>7231771
His work is not systematic, exhaustive or complete enough to give weight to the rather existential and total point he's trying to get across. On top of that, many edgy kids that seem want an easy exit out of ethics or that just want to be plain edgy take him and do a reductionist reading then make memes of him looking "badass". Finally, I think a lot of the hate comes from the fact that his philosophy, made into a social or political system, would be an economic disaster and would stray from the precepts...
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>muh
Thanks for that great expository capacity, faggot
Why did DFW leave us
>76 inches in height
When will they learn?
>>7231760
6'4"?
>... and the demons won
Are these the philosopher Gods?
Plato, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, Spinoza, Wittgenstein.
Does all philosophy rest as a footnote to these men?
Are you simply here to meme on Lacan, Spinoza, or Hegel?
Do they encapsulate all potential views on the things that really matter relayed in the strongest possible way?
>>7231627
>he isn't a pragmatist
>>7231640
excellent contribution
>>7231627
Yes OP, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze are the best, I agree.
Sup /lit/, I need an Ñ thread.
So, Ñ thread.
I'm looking for Cesar Aira epubs, but in Spanish. Since the ones from the 4chan archive are in english. I found so far:
Como me hice monja
El congreso de literatura
La Villa
Varamo
who /gilbertoowen/ here?
Mi estrella -óyela correr- se apagó hace años. Nadie sabrÃa ya de dónde llega su luz, entre los dedos de la distancia. Te he hablado ya, Natanael, de los cuerpos sin sombra. Mira ahora, mi sombra sin cuerpo. Y el eco de una voz que no suena. Y el agua de ese rÃo que, arriba, está ya seco, como al cerrarle de pronto la llave al surtidor, el chorro mutilado sube un instante todavÃa. Como este libro entre tus manos, Natanael.
>>7231459
>gilberto owen
>nataniel
Kinda naco tbh
Kidding, never read him, what's a good intro to his works?
>>7231469
>nataniel
Nigga, it's Natanael.
The Fondo de Cultura Económica has pic related. It's very short, but it has some very good poems and letters, including the one I posted above ("Sombra"). He's a great poet, his diction is outstanding and his images are the stuff of dreams. There are other anthologies but they are very hard to find.
I am in communications class in College, i have a project due thurs. a two minute memorized reading of poetry (no more than two minutes and no less than 1) and the teacher specialices in fine arts or some shit like that, she's really nice and we had a talk about what we could do, becuase i brought up shakespeare she did an entire lecture on iambic pentameter, and no instead of reading eminem i feel obliged to recite some shakespeare any suggestions as to which sonnet i should do,
These are my requirements
2 minutes in length, i have to read it not act it so its just...
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time...
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130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
...
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>>7231329
Do this one, OP.
Everybody memorizes this one.
Ur teacher will know it, and like it.
What is the most cutting edge line of thought/movement in Literary Theory right now? And what theorists are prominent in it at the present?
The answer is uncertain
>>7231213
What a copout. Someone at least list various ideas or theorists that are current and relevant to the discussion.
>>7231164
There is no cutting edge lin in thought or movement in Literary Theory right now. The literary world is dead. The publishing business has been taken over by feminists who publish pink books for women. Next time you go into a bookshop look around the whole place is pink and everything is written by and for insecure women at a really low level of skill or insight i.e. "I'm normal, aren't I?"
Also the book publishers and film industry are all run by the same group of people. There is no end...
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Can someone help me? I need to write an essay on how history influenced a poem. The poem I'm writing about is Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot.
So far I'm thinking about writing about how World War I changed the world and how Eliot was all like "fuck this shit"
Can anyone help me write it a bit more eloquently?
you should write how the history of eliot being a beta faggot retard who got cucked influenced ittbh
>he thinks TS elliot wrote about WW1
>>7231112
write about whitman writing leaves of grass, that'll suit your tastes I'm sure
ITT: We post the place we read most often
Mine here, just received the lamp today as a birthday gift. Now my corner is complete. Reading here with a cup of coffee and a pipe is the best.
Sitting on rocks near rivers is pretty nice.
>a pipe
*tips fedora*
>>7231049
I could be 75 from all you know.
