So why do some people hate this man and call him the japanese coehlo?
>>7322323
Because he is. D'oh.
i thought it was japanese john green
>>7322323
He likes to meme. Because he is a meme. He writes for "intellectual" yuppies. They can feel smart reading his pseudo literature.
I was wondering if we could possibly have a thread about recommendations for Philosophy.
Personally I have quite some interest in it, but since I didn't go to school for it and never really pursued it at the time, I sometimes feel lost as to which philosophers I should look for, the order and relations they have between each other's way of thinking and, most importantly, which works I should read.
I've been on /lit/ for a while now, use the wiki a whole lot, as well as #bookz, and even though philosophy has always been discussed a lot, but no charts or images for recommendations of works or even some general guide of said works were really made. I might be mistaken, of course, and this exists, so I'd be grateful if someone could post it, should that be the case.
If it really doesn't exist, then could we maybe make it? Maybe something as simple as naming the author, his most noteworthy work or works, keeping in mind how well they can teach someone who is new to all of this, or maybe isn't really bright or intelligent like you guys.
Any quick notes on one author's works being related in any particular way to another author's would be neat, but not necessary.
I chose this image because it's brought me a lot of happiness over the last year or so. It's from the wiki
I guess this is a tough thread to push for, especially since I can't contribute to it myself. Alright, I'll bump it this one time and then let it die, if no one is interested.
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I have a chance to see him in a discussion with Yanis Varoufakis.
Should I go? Has anyone here ever gone to see him talk?
I guess technically this thread is allowed here anymore, but /his/ doesn't have the same relation to Zizek as /lit/ does, if it has any. It wouldn't make sense to post it there. Sorry, Hiroyuki, but /his/ was a terrible idea.
>>7322251
Yes, then afterward ask him if he knows he's a meme
>>7322251
Totes m8, it's definitely going to be funny and possibly enlightening.
the whole /his/ is crawling with spooks
>>7322233
/lit/ - literature
>>7322239
kid, you don't want him to make you read the ego and its own so you understand the text at hand and its relevance to literature. after the first goethe quotation the prose goes way down, just don't put yourself through it.
>mfw browsing through /his/
Does /lit/ like writing chinese or chinese literature?
pic related I'm learning the HSK level A 800 pls no bully.
>>7322214
…do you even get what the grid is for?
don't waste your time just do anki and be done with it
Can we make starting with the Germans a thing? I'd like this.
Germans made philosophy the autistic logical mess we know and love. How about it?
Aside from Aristotle and Socrates/Plato, the Greeks are largely irrelevant and read like damned self-help platitudes, i.e. not like the philosophy we adore (the systematic and un-ending logical and linguistical masturbation which deepens our understanding.
>>7322182
>Aside from Aristotle and Socrates/Plato, the Greeks are largely irrelevant and read like damned self-help platitudes
This made me vomit.
>>7322182
Kill yourself. Saged on all fields.
>want to write a novel that's deep and complex
>suck at creating ideas that aren't shit
>can't even get 4 pages into a short story before attention span craps out
I'm writing a novel (35,000+ words so far), and I have the same problem. I struggle every day to put words onto paper and it's harder with all the other stuff I have to keep up with in my life.
The key is the drive to create. Find time to do it. Keep focus. Write down everything that comes to mind, that's how you know when you look back at your work that it was actually you who wrote it.
You don't want to write a novel or you'd be writing it. You want to have written a novel, you want that achievement with none of the work.
>>7322088
pretty much, yeah. I realize I'm approaching writing for all the wrong reasons, but at the same time I feel like I've failed to do something important if I don't write
Hey /lit/ what are some good books on geopolitics?
the grand chessboard
you can disagree with alot of its conclusions as well as to whether the things it advocates are good ideas or not but its essential to understanding the background of alot US and western foreign policy
Bumping this thread for interest.
>>7321987
Can you tell me more about The Grand Chessboard? What eras and regions does it talk about?
What's it's main thesis? Is it considered mainstream or revisionist?
What conclusions do you (or others) disagree with if any?
Do you think it is relatively unbiased?
>>7321973
Damn this is a great pic
>"Remember it’s a sin To Kill A Mockingbird™ (By: Harper Lee)"
I think "to kill a spider" would be a more fitting metaphor.
Because even though spiders are spooky, they are just trying to keep your house clean of other bugs
>>7321800
>Was he here?
>For a while, but now he's Eragon-e
>and the sounds of their hatred let me know I was The Stranger™
Ok Camel...
>tfw you get kidna depressed if you didnt read for a day.
How long can you go without reading before it starts effecting you?
>>7321686
Is anyone on /lit/ really this fat?
>>7321686
I get depressed if I haven't read during the day 3 hours at least
>>7321686
if I don't read some epic poetry or 69 a babe I am blue blue blue
ITT: /lit/ approved books about history
>>7321630
should your meme chart be read in any order
>haag
wew lad
I'm writing a text-game in python with a similar premise to the film "My Dinner with Andre". This is mainly going to be something to entertain my friends with so I really don't have anyone to help proof read it except /lit/.
I'm not necessarily for anything extensive, just some critique on one of the excerpts I have so far.
PremiseTwo men, Sebastian and Jeremy, are seated at a diner booth. Sebastian is explaining to Jeremy why he had a mental breakdown and left his trip from Europe several months before he intended.
This excerpt takes place partway through Sebastians final story of the night.
pic related
>I'm writing a text-game in python
Perl, or GTFO.
>>7321509
Unless you're doing it as a programming exercise, you might consider using a text game engine like Twine or Inform.
No reason to reinvent the wheel, and it would let you focus on content, which is what people really care about.
>>7321549
Perl is dead bro. Get over it.
Siddhartha was so much better. Did Herman Hesse develop some kind of mental illness as he was writing the ending to this book because it was shit.
It didn't.
Never read that one, only non-siddhartha hess ive read was journey to the east and that was a disappointment t b h
>>7321496
One of the few I haven't read sadly. I've loved all the books I've read so far: Peter Camenzind, Gertrud, Rosshalde, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Journey to the East, The Glass Bead Game. Oh shit, nearly forgot Beneath the Wheel.
So what I guess I'm getting at is you're an idiot.
1000-word essay on him due tomorrow. Haven't even started, etc. Let's talk about him.
Do we really experience a world of objects immediately?
Or is it like in Locke or Hume where everything is built up via associations?
(Note: this isn't my paper topic, so you're not doing my homework.)
>>7321872
Sorry m8, I'm too dumb to offer anything. Here's a bump, though.
There's a great thread either in the catalog or the archive on Kant titled 'is he relevant anymore?'. A Kant scholar got involved and posted some great stuff.
What is your paper's topic?
Do you have a /lit/ life goal?
I started on a path to become an expert in western literature, philosophy and history.
Inherently I wish to learn these seven languages:
ancient greek
latin
italian
english
french
german
russian
to have access to the major part of everything produced by man since the invention of writing, (already know 4 of them).
Can I make it? What is your goal?
enjoy your superstructure
Of course it's possible if you have an aptitude for language. Discipline is the difference maker.
I would suggest starting with small goals to building up your discipline and let the force of that discipline snowball your way into conquering the big goals.
Don't start off motivated by big goals because motivation is frailty, like women.
>>7321361
I want to become a professor of creative writing and nail undergrads in my office while doing no work whatsoever.
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