/lit/ - Literature

>>19535132
Not a problem. I just can't wait to live in zoomerland in 10-5 years where employers will be so illiterate that to convey any information other than memes to each other will require a chaste of educated Dune-like mentats whose only skills is being able to write emails in proper English and exchange the kind of complex information that would keep any workplace going.

Official /lit/ philosopher tier list:

>BasedGod tier
Whitehead
Ricoeur
Gadamer
Merleau-Ponty
Montaigne
Marx
Hegel

>Based tier
Foucault
William James
Peirce
Dewey
Deleuze
Blanchot
Levinas
Bachelard
Lefebvre
Adorno
Benjamin
Bloch
Lukacs
Gramsci
Novalis
Schelling

>OK tier
Spinoza
Leibniz
Husserl
Bergson
Bataille
Kierkegaard
Hobbes
Voltaire
Epicureans
Fichte
Heraclitus
Augustine
Derrida
Althusser
Schopenhauer
Cioran
Pascal
Kant
Jameson
Lyotard
Sellars
Agamben
Berkeley
Aristotle
Habermas
Feuerbach

>Bad tier
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Emerson
Arendt
Aquinas
Hume
Pyrrhonian Skeptics
Camus
Plato
Quine
Locke
Zizek
Baudrillard
Rousseau
Bakunin
Cynics
Stoics

>Shit tier
Sartre
Russell
Land
OOO
Stirner
Lacan
Descartes
Scruton
Rand
Badiou
Rorty
Evola

Official /lit/ philosopher tier list:

>BasedGod tier
Whitehead
Ricoeur
Gadamer
Merleau-Ponty
Montaigne
Marx
Hegel


>Based tier
Foucault
William James
Deleuze
Blanchot
Levinas
Bachelard
Lefebvre
Adorno
Benjamin
Bloch
Lukacs
Gramsci
Novalis
Schelling

>OK tier
Spinoza
Leibniz
Husserl
Bergson
Bataille
Kierkegaard
Hobbes
Voltaire
Epicureans
Fichte
Heraclitus
Augustine
Derrida
Althusser
Schopenhauer
Cioran
Pascal
Kant
Peirce
Dewey
Jameson
Lyotard
Sellars
Agamben
Berkeley
Aristotle
Habermas
Feuerbach

>Bad tier
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Emerson
Arendt
Aquinas
Hume
Pyrrhonian Skeptics
Camus
Plato
Quine
Locke
Zizek
Baudrillard
Rousseau
Bakunin
Cynics
Stoics

>Shit tier
Sartre
Russell
Land
OOO
Stirner
Lacan
Descartes
Scruton
Rand
Badiou
Rorty
Evola

Official /lit/ philosopher tier list:

>BasedGod tier
Whitehead
Ricoeur
Gadamer
Merleau-Ponty
Montaigne
Marx
Hegel


>Based tier
Foucault
William James
Deleuze
Blanchot
Levinas
Bachelard
Adorno
Benjamin
Bloch
Lukacs
Gramsci
Novalis
Schelling

>OK tier
Spinoza
Leibniz
Husserl
Bergson
Bataille
Kierkegaard
Hobbes
Voltaire
Epicureans
Fichte
Heraclitus
Augustine
Derrida
Althusser
Schopenhauer
Cioran
Pascal
Kant
Peirce
Dewey
Jameson
Lyotard
Sellars
Agamben
Berkeley
Aristotle
Habermas
Feuerbach

>Bad tier
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Emerson
Arendt
Aquinas
Hume
Pyrrhonian Skeptics
Camus
Plato
Quine
Locke
Zizek
Baudrillard
Rousseau
Bakunin
Cynics
Stoics

>Shit tier
Sartre
Russell
Land
OOO
Stirner
Lacan
Descartes
Scruton
Rand
Badiou
Rorty
Evola

Official /lit/ philosopher tier list:

>BasedGod tier
Whitehead
Ricoeur
Gadamer
Merleau-Ponty
Montaigne
Marx
Hegel


>Based tier
Foucault
William James
Deleuze
Blanchot
Levinas
Bachelard
Adorno
Benjamin
Bloch
Lukacs
Gramsci
Novalis
Schelling

>OK tier
Spinoza
Leibniz
Husserl
Bergson
Bataille
Kierkegaard
Hobbes
Voltaire
Epicureans
Fichte
Heraclitus
Augustine
Derrida
Althusser
Schopenhauer
Cioran
Pascal
Kant
Peirce
Dewey
Jameson
Lyotard
Sellars
Agamben
Berkeley
Aristotle
Habermas
Feuerbach

>Bad tier
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Emerson
Arendt
Aquinas
Hume
Pyrrhonian Skeptics
Camus
Plato
Quine
Locke
Zizek
Baudrillard
Rousseau
Bakunin
Cynics
Stoics

>Shit tier
Sartre
Russell
Land
OOO
Stirner
Lacan
Descartes
Scruton
Rand
Badiou
Rorty
Evola

>>16479162
yes

>>16466082
Because to own something is to already to have to say "yes" or "no" to the world. To own something well unfortunately involves leaning on the latter more than the former.
It's the basic, most obvious logic of gatekeeping. If you can, wouldn't you want the highest possible standard for what is your own?
I'm not someone who takes inherent joy in separating the chaff from the wheat, I just happen to really like the wheat and choke on the chaff. I'm insufferable out of indigestion.

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What happens after I read the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Arrian, Thucydides, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Herbert, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegels, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Potocki, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Hughes, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Anderson, Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Pinter, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Mo Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, de Man, Kristeva, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Arno Schmidt, Therouxs, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Moldbug, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara?

>>16088888
https://pykewater.com/pagekl

with quints, i re-offer the following newly uploaded, most-requested playlists:

charisma
crowd theory
cults - the occult
fascism/totalitarianism
fundamentalism - extremism - prophecy
hypnotism - mesmerism - possession
media politics - fake news - politics of truth
nationalism - statism
persuasion - manipulation
political experts/expertise
witchcraft - magic

enjoi!

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Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Arrian, Thucydides, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Herbert, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Potocki, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Hughes, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Cioran, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Greene, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Stein, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Anderson, Madox Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Pinter, Pound, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Calassom Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Federman, J Crowley, Vidal, Mailer, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, Coover, McCarthy, McElroy, Baldwin, Ellison, Morrison, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Mo Yan, Kosztolanyi, Miłosz, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, de Man, Kristeva, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Schmidt, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Robinson, Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

>>16028856
She said I'm a crybaby
I can't be up lately
Girl you drive me crazy,

How many of you are mainly or solely online here right now instead of reading because you are longing for social contact but are way too big 'spergs and antisocial, reclusive shut-ins to find friends in the real world or less anonymous places online?

Does anyone here have a library outside the beaten path? That is, anyone specialize/own a lot of stuff in: engineering? medicine? math? architecture?

Curious what books people collect outside humanities literature.

>>15500132
>>15500155
good example of someone who wouldn't be invited to join

what would an academic-level reading list on conservatism and neoconservatism include for you?

>>15333166
>>15334376
a second primary aspect is what i would call the reasonable over the right. literature helped develop a general appreciation for adaptability, a sensitivity toward the novel and contingent and unexpected, that has proven instrumental in my fields of work. what i mean is this: that literature has led me less to knowledge, e.g. standards/criterion of veridical judgment, and more to understanding--it's aim has always seemed to me to be the cultivation of attitudes rather than, strictly speaking, rationalisms and empiricisms. aristotle, guicciardini, machiavelli, cassirer--the whole trajectory of literature on "political prudence"--much of this can be collapsed into the sophoclean platitude that the same traits that lead to our success tend also to be the very traits that ensure our downfall--we are our own gravediggers. what vistas of self-revelation and self-creation open up if you take that lesson seriously! what struck me about literature was really how true everything was--what literature lies? there are lies in literature, for sure; but that's not what i'm after here.
through literature i came to see and appreciate the great plasticity of the world and of myself--as well as the overarching dialect that interlinked the two. to this end, it is sorta like weber's idea of the "right" kind of political attitude, or rawls' insistence on the right type of liberal agency: literature has brought me less to strict conclusions as it has opened me to the openness of the surrounding world; i know how to "keep the back door open," so to speak. i would say it is THE human "bullshit meter" but that's obviously to crudely reduce it.

>>15334408
thanks brosef, i got you, you seem alright. what do you do?

>>15333550
i've heard of him, don't know him though. his work interests you?

>>15307968
people lie all the time, its easy, fun, usually stakeless--not much cringe here.
to go out of your way to prove something so trivial, to be so blind not to see how creepy it is to imagine you underlining and comparing and looking at your screen trying to--what?--prove that YOU are right?--truly cringe here.

your inability to acknowledge how abnormal your behavior is just goes to show how indescribably too-close-to-yourself you really are. i'd guess you don't have much quality social contact, not much bringing you out of yourself.

when i was fifteen i fell in love with a same-aged girl who knew both ancient greek and latin. she liked all the same books as i did; she read all the philosophers and poets i liked, and went to a prestigious academic school: one of the most elite girls' schools in my country.

i was brutally rejected. going to the same mass as i did, she would snicker every time i passed her.

now i'm a bitter, woman-hating incel.

books for the pain of unrequited love?

Make me

Check out this large book of his philosophical writing. There is some crazy stuff in it

http://b-ok.xyz/book/828314/c54e1c

Has anyone else noticed how one's verbal fluency, both spoken and written, decreases in periods of abstinence from oral communication? I for one find quite easier to express my ideas, by writing as well as by talking, when I pick up the habit of listening to "rhetoricians" (either academic or "frivolous", monologuing or dialoguing) on Youtube, even if I'm also reading prose or poetry on a daily basis.