/lit/ - Literature

>>19596103
you should spend less time on the internet.

What a king

am I just extremely intelligent or did Heidegger go completely psychotic over a word?
I can't figure out what he is trying to tell me besides that "being is" and that the word has immensely subtle vagueries which we already understand anyway without needing to think about them.

>>18722914
I'm still here. I do see the irony. Representative charlatans as you call them are the government but they're the government because of the corruption and criminality that they champion and use ideals to cover up for. That being said, if you have someone who is involved in the production of resources in government, you have someone more savvy on what actually needs to be done, and they don't necessarily have to be "good guys" tm either if we could round up and put all our politicians in the slammer things would be great and maybe then we could have a realistically viable direct democracy.

Naive leftists and also to a degree anarchists tend toward a belief in the goodness of humanity. I'm not saying this is you, butterfly, but I notice that there is a tendency that goes AGAINST dialectical materialist thought in that whenseveral of the important tenets of an ideology that got someone elected aren't met, the new elect leader is as despised as the former. I don't know how a direct democracy would benefit especially the smaller communities in any way that representative democracies already don't. If you could enlighten me on that, I would welcome your insight.

>>18554264
SEPARATE ART FROM THE ARTIST, YES!

Why did he wear the goblin hat

>>14899059
For me it's the mushrooms and sleepy hats :3

Why the hat? What significance does it carry?

what's the name of this type of hat heidegger's wearing

thinking about getting one

besides the whole nazi thing, Lmao

>tfw I helped Being and Time find its way into this

I am a complete idiot

>Whilst investigating the death of a local nurse, an analytic swordsman called Bertrand Russell uncovers a legend about a supernaturally-cursed, apathetic Tractatus circulating throughout London. As soon as anyone uses the Tractatus, he or she has exactly 75 days left to live.

>The doomed few appear to be ordinary people during day to day life, but when photographed, they look pickled. A marked person feels like a tiny ostrich to touch.

>Bertrand gets hold of the Tractatus, refusing to believe the superstition. A collage of images flash into his mind: a scrawny monkey balancing on a moist nurse, an old newspaper headline about a Heidegger accident, a hooded maggot ranting about balls and a drinking well located in an authentic place.

>When Bertrand notices his testes have ostrich-like properties, he realises that the curse of the apathetic Tractatus is true and calls in his bff, a fishmonger called Ludwig Wittgenstein, to help.

>Ludwig examines the Tractatus and willingly submits herself to the curse. She finds that the same visions flash before his eyes. She finds the scrawny monkey balancing on a moist nurse particularly chilling. She joins the queue for a supernatural death.

>Bertrand and Ludwig pursue a quest to uncover the meaning of the visions, starting with a search for the hooded maggot. Will they be able to stop the curse before their time is up?

How can a person with a basic philosophic knowledge get into Heidegger? What other thinkers influenced him/were influenced by him?

I would love some kind of introduction.

What is the meaning of Being?

Thoreau, Emerson, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein

I am looking for what can best be described as philosophical romanticism, especially its pre-cursors and its seepings into the 20th century. Philosophy as a way of life, with an emphasis on the refinement of perception and awareness. I want a more poetic and vivified state of mind and experience. Preferably odd recluses in the forest, not academics like Rorty or Cavell. No Kierkegaard. No Schopenhauer.

I wonder what he's thinking about here.