/lit/ - Literature

>>7528113
Levin
Bazarov
The Judge

>>7447101
It's all about the three D's anon

Daoism
David Hume
Hegellian Dialectic

>>7380741
>art has to be beautiful and aesthetically pleasant or it isn't art

So novels which evoke feelings of unpleasantness or disquiet aren't art?

The dullness of Madame Bovary or the wretchedness of Notes from Underground are deliberate aesthetic choices that add to the artistic merit of the work.

Were Flaubert and Dostoevsky not artists?

Art is truth as representation, not some pigeon-holed romanticist wank fest.

>LAST READ
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat (re-read but still GOAT)

>CURRENTLY READING
Thomas Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (so far the comfiest read I've ever had)
George + Velleman - Philosophies of Mathematics

>NEXT READ
Don Delillo - White Noise
Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

>>7328249
>All The Pretty Horses

This

If you're at all interested in:
>Adventure
>Romance
>Romanticism
>Coming-of-age
>Action
>Passion
>Horses
>The Old West
>Survival stories
>Prison stories
>Masculinity

all delivered with McCarthy's signature style of minimalist Southern-Gothic

Made me fall in love with storytelling again and I guarantee that if you're a late-teen/twenty something male you'll enjoy it

>>7281863
What I'm essentially getting from this is that the socio-political critic has become so detached from the actual socio-political climate that most analysis has no objective basis in reality and academic discourse on the subject has devolved into a vocal minority who can't seem to stop jerking each other off within the confines of their ivory tower

At this point the existence of God is irrelevant, what is relevant is that the methodologies that have sprung from the assumption that there is a God/prime mover/self-causing cause/personification of the principle of sufficient reason are the only reason we have an empirical science or a "modern" society.

Descartes' entire foundation for the Cogito hinged on the fact that God was benevolent and not a trickster, St Anselm and Aquinas were both incredibly intelligent logicians that believed reason was an integral part of understanding God's creation and the entire Islamic golden age of science and philosophy (AKA the only reason we have modern medicine, mathematics, philosophy or science) was sprung out of the same need to understand God's creation

Whether you believe in God's existence or not you need to acknowledge that a large part of philosophy, literature and science was founded mainly thanks to the efforts of a devout minority who believed (and their conclusions were usually reached using logic and not reverting to fideism as is so often the stereotypical "religious nut job" case)