/lit/ - Literature

Whats up /lit/, any anons here who've read this brother?

Tbh his Critique de la Raison Nègre covered pretty standard figures; and he just took Mudimbe's three defining Euro products re: Africa (transatlantic slavery, colonialism, nazism) and bended the last one.

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depends what the words are. there is no such thing as a perfect synonym, so it might be more confusing to use the synonyms

>>14640761
These kinds of works always make me feel comfy. I just wanna read books in my study.

As introduction start with 'the gnostic religion' by Hans Jonas.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=98626B533BBC864CA6157FCFE91CF68F

This is easy to read but still very informative and insightful. Hans Jonas uses both historical and existential phenomenological (Heideggerian) methodology in examining gnosticism.

Then get into the primary texts (these can be difficult, but still always rewarding):

- The secret book of John

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=CAEEF7E5DB0258AA5163DE2FCD3F02F7

- The Poimandres (Book 1 of Corpus Hermeticum)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F0B5EB165A99E48207819AF62FD6A080

All I do every day is think about how this guy could be wrong, but I can't do it. Modern life seems so absurd, I don't know how everyone is so okay with it.

>>14625028
Timaeus
Hymns to the Night
Concluding Unscientific Postscript

>>14624093
He is love, so yes.

>>14624351
Read Hegel.

So what's the verdict on this guy?

The Emperor of Ice-Cream
--By Wallace Stevens

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

So, the consciousness in Hegel has an empty centre, which is the identity-in-self-difference.

To be in and for itself means that consciousness is aware of its "being-external-to-itself", aware that it is both subject and substance; it has posited itself as something other than itself,, and reflected this otherness back into itself. This difference in itself of substance and subject in consciousness, or this "negative itself", is then the void.

But what's the difference between saying "consciousness have the void as its centre" and "the subject has the void as its centre", the latter e.g. Zizek takes as given?

So, he searches for time through 4000 pages? What does he has to say about time?

>>14592037
and Kierkegaard's of course

>>14590984
>lose your manuscript, driving you to madness
heh... nothing personal, kid...

bidirectional
decipherability
Mephistopheles

>>14591034
>he actually did not want to fuck her
Then why would his sister try in vain to convince him that she's a wretched whore in various letters?
It makes perfect sense for a mama's boy incel like Nietzsche to give all his attention to some quirky slut and willingly get cuck pictures taken like pic related.

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>>14589778
take the syncretism pill and see theyve all got value

>>14582519
(not true, by the way)

>>14566519
it's got Nic Cage in it, so it will be amazing.
If you haven't seen Mandy, check it out

I was attempting to read Hamlet's Mill, but I don't think I'm going to make it, bros.

He died today, boys. The amount of work he's done for the LOTR mythos is comparable to professor Tolkien's work itself.

I miss him already

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>>14540728
>oohh look the guy the Big Other dictated me was the devil incarnate was a pathethic human being like everyone else look how charming and smart he is how they lied to me damn (( )) i'm socool

read some decent shit for once

Why didn't they just stop waiting?