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> understand Heidegger perfectly
> Struggle to read Sartre
> I think I finally understand...
> "Wait, that can't be what Sartre means, because that's fucking retarded!"
Into the trash french existentialism goes. I'm glad Heidegger called them out on their bullshit.
>>7428910
> I think I finally understand...
> "Wait, that can't be what Sartre means, because that's fucking retarded!"
Please, expand.
>french philosophy
>>7428910
What did you understand from Sartre?
“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror.”
Yes, but what solution is he suggesting?
>>7428909
Sounds like he's suggesting calling every pseudo-intellectual a real intellectual
>>7428913
No, it sounds like he's saying that making philosophy the property of academia has stifled its growth and impact.
So the solution maybe is to infuse it with less unnecessary jargon and overly abstract ideas, I guess?
What does /lit/ think about this?
>>7428657
the book fuckin sucked, anon. go read Oblomov.
confederacy of dunces was posthumously awarded after the mum begged publishers to even give it a second glance, and was likely only given that honor due to neckbeard suicide.
for the love of humanity, don't support this book and what it means.
>>7428660
Damn anon, sounds like this book really touched you
>>7428657
I thought it was stunningly unfunny for how much praise people gave it.
I literally thought I maybe got the wrong Confederacy of Dunces, like there must be some other book by the same name that's way better, but no.
The kind of people who laugh at this book laugh at farts and stuff like that.
They like the kind of jokes where the punchline is that a guy is stupid or looks stupid or says or does something stupid. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Hi /lit/, is there any books like dark souls?
Deep lore, interconnected worlds, great character progression.
>videogames
>great character progression
>like anyone could be so grossly incandescent
The Odyssey
Literature: Beowulf, Book of the New Sun
Film: The Seventh Seal
Mango: Berserk
What does lit think of postmodernism?
Extremely interesting and copiously stimulating. My favorite genre thus far.
>>7428615
It's a joke that never ends.
I'm finally starting to "get" it, and that is a good feeling. I think its good... Not much better or worse than anything else...
What is the best place to live in and practice the artistic/literary lifestyle without ending up homeless?
prison
room and board is covered and you get to read all the books you want
Any european country with exaggerated welfare.
>>7428488
Real talk
A man's ego is his one true weakness
Actually it's bullets.
>>7428468
And women
>>7428477
And spiders
Do you consciously find yourself unable to genuinely take up a cause? To be unwilling to declare a fixed idea as 'the right way' because you're not convinced such a thing exists.
Is this that apathetic bourgeoisie attitude that revolutionaries hate?
shut up you whiney little fuck
>>7428362
Where's the complaining?
>>7428363
Your father was talking about your life in general, but now that you mention it this OP post is pretty loaded and whiny as well
ITT: we come up with pen names
David Mitchell is so fat and ugly.
>>7428303
fuck off
>>7428293
Pierre P Anonolioni
I've never read any literature that could be classified as Romanticism but I'm very interested in the movement, where's a good, moving place to start? I want to swoon at lush descriptions
>>7428225
The Greeks.
>>7428232
epic regurgitation man you got anything more specific and maybe an explanation of why it's romantic or led to romanticism or better yet a book from the actual period of romanticism you meme fuck
Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge if you want poetry.
If you're into prose i'd say Mary Shelley, Poe (short stories) or the bronthë sisters.
These are decent starting points I guess, if you're really inexperienced with the romantic movement you can also start with Byron.
