/lit/ - Literature

>>20194120
Marty is by far the most /fa/ philosopher

>>19706124
>Do you really think that we are blooming in art and music right now?
yes. Spengler's claim that western art peaked and finalized with Wagner is so simplistic it is difficult to anything else he says seriously.
The entire expressionism period which he lived through should have shown him that he has a wrong angle toward art. And it is in this essence that, through the "aesthetic regime" as Ranciere calls this period, we are actually still continually seeing profound progress, and western civilization is offering everything to allow this to develop On its own.
All the consumerist media exists to allow the world to keep turning where actual artists can create.
>And yes technology wise we are progressing, but that is not blooming, that is Faustian longing towards infinity in a new medium.
I found this cringe in Spengler since the get go.
Rome didnt wait till the civilization period to build Roads, aqueducts, etc.
And it is precisely western Technology that makes us different from any other "culture" and why the west wont wither away after some "civil war" or some horde invades.

Spengler claims that industry leaving for the brown masses, and them taking western technology usurps the west (already by 1900 mind you).
No! it is the west that usurps them through this technology since it completely undermines every aspect of their life and culture for an ideal forged by western spirit. Speak to any traditional chinese and he will admit that his country is no lonegr chinese, but cities american and the peoples mentalities western. Just cause they dont speak spanish or english day to day doesnt change this. no romance language is Faustian yet they were used to spread faustian spirit through colonialism. same difference.
The west is richer than it has ever been the last decade and will unconsciously continue to strive toward its own goals and desires (the whole bullshit domestic renewable energy over imported energy from brown countries exemplifies this).

To that other anons point >>19706110
A thing that exemplifies the resilience and strength of western states is that even in these times of absurd authoritarian measures the thought of these governments being replaced by anything actually different is an impossibility.
Nothing can shake the foundation of the west since ww2 and especially since post USSR not even "grave threats to our democracy" like boogeymen Donald Trump who really did not change a thing.

I really suggest abandoning Spengler the second you have read him and instead going for a hegelian outlook, but with a more contemporary and practical framework of Deleuze.

Thanks for coming to my thread!

>btw Heideggers fear of Technology exemplifies all I have said.

ITT: we post comfy pictures of our favorite writers

This thread is dedicated to the discussion of the life and thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

>To Heidegger, technology is not the product of science; rather, science is the product of a “technological enframing.” Technology, on this view, is not a set of methods or inventions but a stance toward the world that is instrumental and manipulative, in relatively neutral senses of those words. The technological core is analytical, sequential, and empirical. Another way to put this is to say that what belongs to the technological core is what we find to hand: whatever occupies the lifeworld we share, and is therefore subject to our manipulation and control, and to debates about what it is and what might be done with it. To this core belong instrumental and discursive reason, including all the sciences and most forms of philosophy — everything that reckons with the possible uses of human power to shape ourselves and our environment. The technological core undergirds and produces the phenomena we typically refer to as technological.

Where do I start with him

>>12447676
What do you think it means to "be"?

Need books on how to start companies, corporations and conglomerates. The more the merrier. Thanks.

why do analytic philosophers lose their shit every time they hear heidegger's "the nothing nothings" quote?

and also what did he mean by this

Can anyone suggest any decent books that discuss the Russian revolution? Preferably ones that are not overt in their praise, glorification or criticism.

>>10189580

Yes although he would probably say Varg.. easy on the lack of Jewish mistresses.

>>9896258
kek
>>9896260
So you are saying that I should read Balzac in French or in my native? On what "level" of English should I be to read Infinite Jest or Gravity's rainbow (these books aren't translated here) or Lolita as a matter of fact

>>9880581
>be peterson
>love heidegger
>hate derrida
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He thought the latter possibility would degenerate mankind generally into scientists, workers and brutes; living under the last mantle of one of three ideologies, Americanism, Marxism or Nazism (which he deemed metaphysically identical, as avatars of subjectivity and institutionalized nihilism), and an unfettered totalitarian world technology.[69] Supposedly, this epoch would be ironically celebrated, as the most enlightened and glorious in human history.

He envisaged this abyss to be the greatest event in the West's history because it would enable Humanity to comprehend Being more profoundly and primordially than the Pre-Socratics.

>>9675455
What's the hurry? Wait and find out. Are you one of those people who ask what's going to happen next while watching a movie?

>>9676170
>tfw (You)'re stuck in an eternal loop of telling anon that and I'm stuck in an eternal loop of pointing it out
the Universe is a strange place

>>9413531
>He doesn't have a mastery of German, English, French, Russian, Latin and Attic Greek to experience the world's greatest texts in their original language
glad to see i'm still browsing with complete plebs

>>8556827
heidegger is the best /lit/ grandad, imagine him taking you through the woods and telling you about how the nothing nothings

>>8353985
>>8353985
Ayn Rand's explanation of the purpose of man is the exact opposite of Heidegger's.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/#Tec

>The mode of revealing characteristic of modern technology understands phenomena in general—including the non-biological natural world, plants, animals, and indeed human beings—to be no more than what Heidegger calls standing-reserve, that is, resources to be exploited as means to ends.

>By revealing beings as no more than the measurable and the manipulable, technology ultimately reduces beings to not-beings

>The notion of a not-being signals two things: (i) technological revealing drives out any sense of awe and wonder in the presence of beings, obliterating the secularized sense of what is sacred that is exemplified by the poetic habitation of the natural environment of the Rhine; (ii) we are essentially indifferent to the loss. Heidegger calls this indifference “the hidden distress of no-distress-at-all”. Indeed, on Heidegger's diagnosis, our response to the loss of any feeling of sacredness or awe in the face of beings is to find a technological substitute for that feeling, in the form of “lived-experience”, a drive for entertainment and information, “exaggeration and uproar”.

>Sartre

Heidegger bodied this fool years ago.