/lit/ - Literature

>>17023073
>“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.”
-Michel Foucault

Why did he do that, /lit/? Why is he filtering us midwits so hard?
I just want to understand him, man. I don't ask for much, I really want to know what he is all about without reading every book ever published starting with Homer. Did he really hate us so much? Do you think he got hurt by a midwit?

>>14661250
Because in his massive tomes, Marx mostly focuses on production in the sense of the kind of shit that goes on in a manufactory.

His class-conception and historical materialism are made in complete ignorance that the logistics of an economy dwarf the importance of everything else. How can I possibly take anything this man says seriously, when the model that forms as the foundation for his ideas is completely malformed?

>>14622083
First, one has to be able to understand the ape-like behaviors that underlie our wider experiences. Specifically, acts and actions that aren't intuitively thought of as mirrors of behaviors found in other great apes, but when presented side-by-side with each other are clear to see as the same thing (or at least closely related)

Things like eyes bulging, throat tightening, teeth baring when screaming, shown side by side with a chimpanzee doing the same thing. That sense of seperation that is broken by these comparisons, the bubble that is manufactured by our minds which asserts an elevation above the other great apes.

That fragile structure, and all things related to it. That's the human condition.

>>14610570
You can never be right

Does anyone know where to find Russian translations of Plato? I have a good Russian friend who is interested in Philosophy, I lent him my copy of a collected works and he had a lot of trouble as he is not very familiar with reading English.

What's the next step of his master prediction?

What job can I take where I can get paid to read? I'm currently thinking the coast guard so I chill on a cutter and study literature.

>>13596646
ridiculous? hes beautiful

>>12613636
Yes