/lit/ - Literature

>>4105938

>and then an eagle sheds a tear on Principia Mathematica

>>4105941

Get off 4chan, child. Run along and play.

>>4105936

It's like a language in some ways, but it isn't a language.

>>4105928

One day you might learn to read.

>mfw science and postmodernity are actually compatible because neither believes in an end point of objective truth
>mfw people think "truth" matters more than virtue

Daily reminder that you are all base faggots and products of the massive wrong-turn philosophy took after the death of Socrates.

>>4103821

>stay in my room reading optical science textbooks because I am NEET
>decide to go outside because I ran out of Mountain Dew
>see something red for the first time
>this is not a new experience for me because I already know everything about seeing red and qualia is obvously an intellectual whim

>>4105846

I agree except I think Prisoner > Goblet > Chamber.

Toni Morrison.

Not Marx, but its popularity is based on cultural Marxism, so close enough.

>>4101797

If you remove Grr Martin from that pic, there's a 1:1 correlation between ugliness and writing ability.

>>4102994

Harlan Ellison's Watching.

It's a series, but they're all good.

>>4102764

I have to leave for work in 30 mins tho.

>>4102755

Watch lot's of David Foster Wallace interviews. Work's for me.

>>4101875

That sure was nice of him.

>>4102430

Depends. My clock says it's 6:20 pm in London. What are you doing on 4chan?

>>4102339

He developed a method called 'logotherapy', which differed from other therapies of the time and those of today in that it emphasises the creation of 'meaning' for a person having psychological or social problems. It's closely linked to existentialism and tends to focus more on the conscious "this is what this experience means to me" aspect of therapy, and how a person has to make sense of their problems within their life story before they can move on.

I've done a degree in psychology, and read a bit about the various methods that are used today. I'd say Frankl's approach captures what works in each of the other methods really well.

It's marginalized though, because it's a literary method rather than a capitalist-approved hyper-autistic, theoretical, mechanistic one like CBT.

>>4102026

You don't think the application of MoQ to creative writing could be useful, as suggested in the book?

>>4102231

From what I've read of Stirner, I think he'd cringe at identity politics because its advocates tend to conceive of themselves in terms of how many minority groups they belong to, rather than existing as creative nothings.

There are some out there that pursue the Foucauldian project of inventing new ways of being, but they seem few and far between the pre-fab LGBBQ crowd, to me.

>>4102326

I thought so too. Then again, I can see why Welsh portrayed Renton the way he did; it's probably better to have at least a somewhat strong moral contrast to full-on psychopaths like Begbie.

>>4102317

I've read Civilization and Its Discontents, but I'd be grateful if anybody could point me to an entry point to his work in hermeneutics.

I think it's a shame that Viktor Frankl's approach to therapy was overshadowed by Freud's and then Lacan's.

>>4102314

You'll notice I didn't say anything about 'anti racism'. Why so hostile?

>>4102288

I didn't give my reasons for holding that opinion. You'd have to know what they were before you could say it was ill-formed.

>>4102299

You should browse /pol/ more often. There's far too much correlation between anti-white bullshit and Jewish involvement for anybody not to trace a connection.

>>4102295

My alethiometer says 2500.

>>4102278

Because you're still on /lit/.