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Philipp Mainländer tbqh

Philosophy of Redemption is written in such a clear voice

What keeps you from negating the "will to live" or rather life itself?

This guy gets it. The Philosophy of Redemption is literally one of the most underrated works in philosophy in general. It is a vivid and more clear synthesis of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Nietzsche also got a lot of his own thoughts from this book.

>>11556567
Philipp Mainländer

>>11554658
This.

Can we attribute extension and motion to the things-in-themselves?

>>11378381
cont.

>Houses get swarmed with GARBAGE 16-21 year olds who think they're either Tolkien or Faulkner when in reality they're Tommy Wiseau
>because no one reads lit magazines anymore much less lit fucking websites these tiny little "Publishing houses" employ only one or two people, who can barely even afford to keep their website domain name paid for--much less sift through larger and slushier slush piles than history has ever seen; the internet making every dumbass with a laptop a potential submission
>No offices, no revenue, no print run, no marketing; just a domain name and a twitter account with five hundred followers
>Takes months to send a form rejection on work that they wouldn't have even paid you for in the first place, and that wouldn't even be read by anyone even if they published AND paid you
>Good luck out there if you're writing is actually good despite all this, faggot

What can we do, /lit/?

>>11305080
I'm out, m8

>>11138109

Hanging yourself after using your newly published books decrying life as a platform

>>10405660
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
>The Last Messiah
>The Philosophy of Redemption
>Ecclesiastes
>The World As Will and Representation
>Confessions of an Antinatalist
>Straw Dogs
>Cioran: The Complete Works

>>10373003
Stop being.

>>10252671

>>10219971
>existence
>gift

>>10180357
Philip overcame tho

>>10137790
ITT: people will deny that OP's quote is some good shit even though it is, just because it came from le ebic Reddit cracked.com book

Also, fight the power, pic related

Philipp Mainländer is who you want. Published his pessimistic philosophy and then used the books as a platform to hang himself

The true, I dare say it, /ourguy/.

Discuss the philosophy of the most /lit/-philosopher. Why did Nietzsche call him the apostle of virginity? Why is there no English translation? Should we all kill ourselves?

Why there are so few authors holding negative opinions on sexuality in general? It isn't hard to see how stupid the act of sex really is, but most of the great authors were libertines or at least saw sex as a positive thing.

>>9303347
Hanging.. using a stack of my own unsold books as a stepping stool.

>>8962584
>tfw you realize god existed and the creation of the universe was just the medium he used to erase his existence and you are now a part of his rotting corpse with the same crippling depression and helplessness he experienced and knowing that the sufferings of living beings have no purpose at all but to accelerate the eventual obliteration of the universe.

Why is Mainlander not our guy?

>In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption) – according to Theodor Lessing "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" – Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."

>[a badly translated blog summary] Therefore the universe, as we know it, was born through the suicide of God. God decided that he can't bear his existence anymore and that he wishes to turn into Nothingness. But he was not able to reach that goal without thereby creating our world, because the path from his over-being** to Nothingness required a transition, which is being as we know it, our universe. This entire world is therefore nothing more than God's "body", that is in all its components rotting into nothingness now.

> Eventually, descending into megalomania and believing himself to be a messiah of social democracy,[6]:124 on the night on April 1, 1876, Mainländer hanged himself in his residence in Offenbach, using a pile of copies of The Philosophy of Redemption (which had arrived the previous day from his publisher) as a platform. He was thirty-four years old.

DUDE HANGED HIMSELF BY KICKING OUT STOOL OF HIS OWN BOOKS