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What I can i read to find out more about the intersectionality between marxism and feminism?
Is there any?
>wikipedia
>the sticky
>fuck off, you're not making a good threat and can't add anything to any discussion
google marxist feminism, proletarian feminism, etc.
Well, intersectionality refers to "intersections" among groups, such as women, gender and sexual minorities, the working class, and various racialized peoples. Common struggle and all that.
But if you're asking about the relationship between Marxist thought to Feminist thought it's pretty readily apparent. IIRC there's a whole section in the communist manifesto regarding women's lib.
What do you guys think is the best Conan story? At least among Howard's originals.
I just started reading them and I'm pleasantly surprised. The world is realistic, vivid, and interesting; the characters and their motivations are well thought out, Conan isn't just a stupid killing machine as he is often depicted, and the stories provoke some interesting questions relating to barbarism and society.
I forget the name, but its the one were at the end Conan chases some evil wizard down and decapitates him and the head flies off with the body chasing it.
"The Pool of the Black One" has been my favorite ever since I read it. It goes Full Lovecraft and actually has Conan sail to an entire other realm populated by inhuman monsters. Plus he kills a man just so he can steal his woman. It's fantastic.
The Scarlet Citadel out of what I've read.
Hello /lit/
What are the religions out there that i can study and maybe adhere to if i do not believe in an anthropomorphic/abrahamic god?i know that there is buddhism, but are there any others that you can tell me about? and some books which i can get my hands on to read about said religions.
>>7555846
It's not really a religion but deism. Read Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason
>choosing what religion to follow based on what 4chan posters tell you
Don't do that
>>7555846
Christianity is the true religion.
Guys how long Divine Comedy is? I have some weird version, it says "exerpts" and its 400-500 pages long, but i counted verses and its ~14000 more or less. Yet in internet they say full version is 1000 pages long (?). Please, could anyone say how long this masterpiece is in full full version, and should i read what i got or throw it in garbage??
How old are you? This actually matters
It's 14,233 lines, which can be as few as few hundred pages or over a thousand depending on font/spacing/notes/italian inclusion.
I have the copy in your pic and the poem is 482 pages.
Not trolling, just a stupid question from a retarded atheist. If Christ is God, and he had 30 some odd years here on earth to do anything he wanted, and he didn't write the bible (or something like it), why is there any reason to think that the Holy Spirit was working through men when they wrote the bible? if God wanted to write a holy text wouldn't he have done it while he was here?
And this is about the bible and its authority as a religious text so yes, this is /lit/
>>7555775
God didn't want to write a holy text.
He wanted to do things described in the New Testament.
Then he left things in the hands of the apostles who are said to have been blessed by the holy spirit very directly who founded a church members of which wrote and composed the bible.
>what is ascetism
>>7555775
God works in mysterious ways and you have to trust him. Although you probably can't understand this because you're an atheist.
Where do I start on Ancient Greek mythology? Specifically, the pantheon of Gods and the stories of the heroes
>>7554874
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
The Library of Greek Mythology - Apollodurus
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
Heracles, Medea, Hecuba - Euripedes
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Heroides - Ovid
>>7554924
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton
This is good if you have no knowledge at all and don't want to read Wikipedia articles
otherwise just read the original sources if you can handle them. Ovid and Homer
>book title is "[famous person] cried"
>or generally "[famous person] [does action]"
I consider this cheap for some reason.
Post pet peeves, I guess.
>>7554584
>[famous person] cried
name one book that does this
>>7554632
>Nietzsche cried
>Odysseys wept
I am sure there are more.
Kafka on the Shore fits the wider category.
>>7554641
No, wait, that first one is originally called "When Nietzsche wept", Nietzsche cried is just what it was translated to in my country.
How can I write like him, /lit/?
Love
>>7554449
Love is not enough. You must love a babushka. The way Mitya loves Grushenka.
>>7554457
The way Alexei loves Grushenka
>'But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
What did he mean by this?
>>7554176
is it the kgb translation?
you can't watch porn
>>7554192
kjb yeah
>All right, I will show you, if you can see that some sense-perceptions[ 10] do not summon the understanding to look into them, because [b] the judgment of sense-perception is itself adequate; whereas others encourage it in every way to look into them, because sense-perception does not produce a sound result.
I don't understand this part of book 7 of the republic, what did Socrates mean by this?
Literally that some people can't see farther than their noses.
>>7553988
So in his description the first group of people take what they see as granted while the second group of people look into it in more depth because relying on the sense alone is inadequate?
Are lots of uni courses teaching Plato right now? A handful of Republic threads lately.
Why is a playwright /lit/worthy but a screenwriter is not?
>>7553951
Less people see plays, therefore it's more elite.
>>7553956
That's...that's it?
You can read through the script of a play as literature
Is here anyone who reads literature in Chinese? No matter whether it'd be a person born and brought up by Chinese family or Amerifat who learned that by themselves, I've just got interested. What really bothers me is whether there is any difference between reading, let's say, in Russian, English or any other relatively phonetic language or Chinese. Is that even possible to master it in terms of good literacy in order to read with absolutely no problem and even get some pleasure out of it? In addition, is there any worthwhile literature written by contemporary...
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Ya man, 29 is basically your last year of life, should start preparing for death and your for a suttee.
It's very different. Hard to explain if you're not familiar with the language, and doubly hard since I learned Chinese first so it's the "default" for me. But generally I think the characters are completely divorced from pronunciation, which means you can glean meaning without having to sound it out. I think that speeds up reading considerably, but the flip side is that characters are typically more expressive in meaning, so you have to pay some more attention to nuances.
I read Chinese works in Chinese (duh) and some Japanese and Korean works...
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>>7553897
And would you recommend me to go thorough all this hell? Or had better go and pick up some Spanish instead?
This was a great fucking book
>dat character building
>dat world building
>dat existentialism
>dat poli-sci tension
>dat humour
>I will have nothing to mourn
What is Houellebecq's masterwork prior to this?
the author looks like he was cursed
>>7553604and his publisher was blessed
>>7553603
La Possibilité d'une île
I watched alot of porn during my formative years and I feel like that's destroyed my perception of them in the real world. I don't want that to come back to bite me in the professional world, so what books help with this?
good thread OP. i'm the same as you and i'll be lurking for the recs.
thanks buddy
>>7553466
Try the New Testament and Russian literature.
Maybe some Dante and Petrearch.
Crime and Punishment
Anyone got thoughts on this?
I really liked it, felt quite unique
To me it felt like a nice epilogue of sorts to On The Road. The Buddhist theme is very superficial, but it's a nice book. You read Kerouac to get a feeling for the subculture of the time and this is probably one of his best expositions of that.
>>7553298
What made you feel that the Buddhism stuff was superficial? To me it seemed quite genuine, especially with him arguing with japhy about east and west really being the same thing and how he sort of had his own perspective that wasnt too bothered, in the end, about what others thought.
>>7553307
Don't get me wrong, I think Kerouac was genuinely interested in Buddhism (case in point, see his short biography of the Buddha). But for a book called The Dharma Bums, supposedly about seeking a spiritual life, it's much more concerned with the superficial Buddhist aesthetic that took over counter-culture America around the 50s/60s. It's not really a critique of the book, just an observation. I thoroughly enjoyed reading more of Kerouac's adventures, but the veneer of Buddhism doesn't really...
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