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Sup /lit/erati,
I'm doing a course on Postmodernism, I've never done any actual Philosophy only course so I figure I better do extra reading to get as much as I can out of it and to get a good grade.
I'm supposed to write a 10 page essay on some aspect of Post-modernism or an influential post-modern thinker.
Any ideas on someone interesting that I could focus on? Any good books or essays that you think I should read?
Here is the compulsory minimum reading list I have from my course:
Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
Sigmund...
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>>7897270
Read the list and come back.
>>7897284
I plan to, but is there nothing you'd think to add to it?
>>7897291
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Schmitt, The Concept of the Political
Agamben, Homo Sacer
Who are the most important thinkers alive?
me (you)
Alain Soral
pic related
I'm 18 and just getting into literature. I've always been a pretty big reader and I've read books by lots of more well-known and 'classic' authors (Hemingwey, Tolstoy, Dickens, Faulkner, Poe, Twain, a bit of Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Proust, Huxley, Aghileri, etc), but I'm just starting to get into more 'contemporary' literature.
Is this book actually good, or am I getting memed?
read it yoursef and find out.
>>7897221
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JUST READ THE FUCKING BOOK
I just opened the third page.... what am I in for?
Post NEETcore books please.
>>7897166
Notes from the underground
Nice pic by the way
>>7897260
thanks kinsman!
>>7897166
Oblomovigatory
Recommendations for good books about a man living ahead of his time, struggling to share his ideas in the midst of a society of repression?
With a protagonist who's more clever than Winston
Mein Kampf
The art of the deal
>>7897151
If you're still thinking in terms of protagonists, you're actually 50-60 years behind the times.
what should i read next?
looking for something shorter on this list i havent read yet
ty guys
i guess list general..
who the fuck cares. just pick yourself. why would you make such a stupid thread
moby-dick of course
>but that's so long that's not what i asked for
fucking read it anyway. the chapters are all nice and short anyway
>>7897124
ficciones
How much should i be understanding on a first reading of a philosophical text? Whenever I read one I mostly get what's being said but i always feel like i'm missing something. I've never really read much outside of literature for school and sci-fi/fantasy.
Am i just stupid or is this normal?
What have you been reading? Philosophy often assumes familiarity with prior works, so you should probablystart with the Greeks.
>>7897140
I've been reading Plato and Nietzche
>>7897148
Familiarize yourself with the presocratics, then return to Plato. Nietzsche comes later.
Anyone got some good books on atheism?
sinners in the hands of an angry god
Dante's Inferno
Nothing that you can't learn from google searches and wikipedia
Бecы (demons/devils/the possessed) by Dostoevsky
Ask anything a NEET who reads a book per day and isn't Tai Lopez.
to sage a thread, do you post sage in "name" or option"?
Why can't you use correct grammar?
This month's NYRB classifieds got me right in the feels.
>>7897039
>For Sale: Loveseat, unused. (no gf)
For sale: baby shoes, worn by our now dead baby.
For sale: Talent, never discerned.
we are still pre-nietzsche
>>7896986
youre more preschool, op
I am already post-nietzsche
which doge is that
>read the apology
>socrates actually dies
>no happy ending
explain this dotards?
>>7896936
>read The Republic
>its a dictatorship
wow what a hack
>>7896963
>not realizing that the point is that the ideal benevolent dictatorship of the philosophers is impossible and therefore the philosopher should seek to exist outside of earthly society in the realm of ideas
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>>7896936
It was pretty happy desu senpai. Socrates didn't fear death because of the DOCTRINE OF RECOLLECTION
Ok /lit/ which books should i start to read(presumably philosophy and nonfiction)
Philosophy is not a straight path, what kind of philosophy interests you, get a better understanding of the world? Prehaps some political theory to get more informed on your own ideals or what?
I'm interested by eastern philosophy and also by the philosophy from the enlightenment age.Political theory also interests me but not to a large range as the ones above
>>7896891
Read Alan Bloom's translation of Plato's Republic. Trust me, go get it from your library right now and start reading.
Why is this book so influential? I see it referenced everywhere in tv shows, movies, video games etc.
>>7896881
Why don't you read it and find out for yourself.
>>7896881
BECAUSE IT IS BY THE ONLY MYTH MAKING IMAGINATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY HERMAN "THE HERM"
MELVILLE
>>7896889
Feel the Herm!
This summer will be my last Academic Summer, the last prolonged period in which I will have no work or education related obligations to impede my autodidacticism (at leas for the foreseeable future). At the age of 21 I see that even six years of solid self-learning has been insufficient to make me even half as erudite as I thought I'd be at this age. I want to use this time wisely and have decided to focus on reading up hard on one particular subject for the two months I will have.
I've whittled down possible subjects for self-study to:
- Plato &...
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>>7896867
what is your goal exactly? why concerned about the timeline?
You're a dilettante. You don't have an outstanding interest in any subject, but to associate yourself with them produces in you the feeling that you're gaining the benefits of pursuing them.
>>7896877
To explore my interest in these subjects, hopefully gaining an understanding and insight that surpasses my currently lacklustre grasp of each.
