/lit/ - Literature

>working on individual math work at the end of the day
>teacher inconspicuously putting book order forms in mailboxes

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While Hegel wrote History as the Self-Realization of Spirit, Napoleon was conquering Europe. Napoleon is what Hegel called a World Historical Figure, that is in Hegel's day Napoleon represented the epitome of humanity, spirituality and knowledge. If he didn't represent those things, he would not have been conquering Europe. On the other side, Hegel saw Asians and Blacks as subhuman. They were being eradicated by the Self-Realization of Spirit (History). This is the European narrative of progress; racial superiority, technological superiority and spiritual superiority. When ever you see post-modern thinkers talking about the end of history, or the end of grand narratives they are referring to Hegel's theory of history, and the many people he influenced (especially Marx, but also democratic writers like Rousseau).

Hegel's idea of the dialectic is not how we often think of dialectics today. Usually, dialectics describe 2 entities in opposition that must either compromise or stay in opposition. Hegel saw dialectics as certain, that certain things would oppose each other and eventually create a synthesis (or concrete as he called it). This was not a possibility of synthesis, but an inevitability.

tl;dr Hegel was an insane racist.

hi i need a creative response to this college question prompt "the last time i..." its for an essay

i came to the literature sectioin because u guys can probably anwer it

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What are some good Spanish books, is there a wiki or anything? Id like to get a friend who is learning Spanish a present. Not Don Quixote though, it looks a bit heavy for a beginner-intermediate level student.

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A Room of One's Own by Vagina Woolf, I'm reading that shit up nowand it's so short you could read it in a night, plus the language isn't too complex and it's pretty entertaining

Also, your list is missing Hemmingway

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Damn straight.

Picked it up as a freshman, and gave up after two chapters because of the slang. Picked it up again as a junior, it's been one of my favorite books since.