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Who else among the philosophers would have been in a mental hospital if he hadn't become a philosopher?
>Picrel

>Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.
>All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.
>“Fiat ars—pereat mundus,” says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense of perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of ‘l’art pour l’art.’ Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destructiveness as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

In awe at this gnosos

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>>12247998
>You knew exactly what you were getting into. FFLCH has a huge reputation for this kind of thing.
Yeah I know, but I didn't think it was THAT bad.

>>12248026
>shoot them all
I wish I could. My ideal University of philosophy would be like Plato's Academy where everyone is male and white. Fuck blacks and women. Philosophy is a white male's invention.

>>12248054
>sounds great :)
>why the hate?
I hate it because it turned the philosophy department into a shit show.

>>12248064
Hue hue hue hue.

Was he on about something or was he just a pseud?

The boi

Recc some good essay collections or authors. Doesn't have to be hardcore philosophy but preferably philosophical and more importantly literary in nature. Fiction authors who also wrote non-fiction are cool too. Examples of authors I'm lumping into this (broad) category-

Virginia Woolf
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Susan Sontag
David Foster Wallace
Walter Benjamin

I need to read Montaigne obviously but it's kind of intimidating to jump in to his complete works. Is there a volume of selected essays anyone would recommend that's well curated in a good translation?