/lit/ - Literature

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typical technologico-positivist philistinism

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Shut up, cunt.

Gentlemen, I think it's clear now what we must do. We must promote research in the fields of alternative repoduction in order to render the lesser gender superfluous. We need to get to a point where our society will consist of only ubermensch, a point where the dialectic resolves with the victory of the pure and superior. A world inhabited purely by white men! We built this world and we deserve al of! Don't stand idly by while pseudo-leftists attempt to drag you into oblivion. The international communist utopia will run far more smoothly when it is run and populate exclusively with those who built all the is good in civilization!

This is imply logical, pure, empirical logic! I'm 100% sure all philosophers up to Marx would agree with me. We need to abolish women and the lesser races for the good of our species.

No, not all of them, not yet.

You're all idiots, that much is clear. None of you should be bragging about your intelligence. Considering tha from what I've seen most of you are incapable of grasping the basic tenets of atheistic existential thought (or what have you). Just about every thread regarding philosophy or literary theory is simply painful to read. But I suppose I shouldn't expect much else from a ragtag group of sexually frustrated pseudo-intellectual secondary school students.

Alright, so one of the last projects I have for this holiday is to get to grips with Heidegger. I already have a superficial understanding of what he's all about and have also dealt with the relation of Nazism to him to a degree that I feel is pretty comprehensive (in Zizek's discussion in In Defense of Lost Causes).

Now I want to really understand him and his thought, the implications of his message etc. Since I'm limited on time, money and inclination, I'm thinking about approaching him for the moment solely via the Basic Writings volume Routledge Press puts out. It has the Being and Time Introduction in it and that as far as I'm concerned is enough for Being and Time seeing as it is a semi-failed project. Obviously I am going to invest in a cheap commentary or guide as well.

tl;dr is Basic Writings enough? Or is Being and Time also needed?

I'm interested in reading some twentieth century philosophy.

I am not sure where to start, though. A philosophy major friend of mine recommended Martin Heidegger. I tried reading "Being and Time" as well as "The Essence of Truth" and found his stuff very hard to read.

What would you fellows recommend?