/lit/ - Literature

>>7908233
1. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/
2. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger-aesthetics/
3. https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berkeley
4. Mark Wrathal's How to Read Heidegger
5. Being and Time

>>7308617
>>7316751

Over the winter glaciers,
I see the summer glow,
And through the wild-piled snowdrift
The warm rose buds below.

>>6841452
But his philosophy is more than question everything, there are no foundations, tear it all down, don't take me completely seriously. That makes him some kind of high-caliber skeptic and critic. It is true but it is too limited. At bottom, his skepticism and criticism is a byproduct of his contempt for modernity. What he hates about modernity is its egalitarianism. He wants a new form of aristocracy. That's his project.

not telling

Lacan considered The Psychopathology of Everyday Life one of the three key texts for an understanding of the unconscious, alongside The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious.

Reading Ferdinand de Saussure would be more helpful than Jung.

This is if you want the main emphasis to be on Lacan.

Then again, why bother? The only thing I have noticed with Marxists is they tend to ignore any fact that contradicts their theory. Every war is fought because of resources, no exceptions. If a fact about a contemporary issue contradicts your theory, fuck it, ignore it, make it fit. Why bother researching the details of anything when you already have an economic theory that explains everything? You have the whole world figured out. If not, you have to read Adam Smith. Don't forget about Keynes. Don't you want to understand? Read that new book that came out a couple of years ago about Capital in the 21st Century. The list is growing and growing and if you don't keep reading and reading you will be basing your political views on too narrow of a view and you would have been better not treading into waters where you don't belong. I guess this could be said about any book but there needs to be some kind of selection process. What do you do after you discover capitalism is an evil system? You are either on the far-left and take to the streets and write pamphlets for the cause (which I'm not doing) or you cast your vote for some idiot and talk about things you don't understand with people who also don't understand. Yes, reading this would definitely be a waste of time and racking your brain on the wrong things is bad for you.

>>6160405
Attending someone you love's funeral.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple

>>5622340
Your sentimental and effeminate herd values do not resonate with someone of my caliber, someone of my sophistication. Deep emotions? The depth of my contempt for weakness is unfathomable. I hunt depression down like a lion and sink my teeth into its striped neck to savor its blood. You attempt pacify weakness with more weakness. You attempt to put a lid on a boiling pot and stand there dumbfounded when the lid comes popping off again and again. Did you learn this coping technique from mother? What will you do when the narcotics lose their effect? I say let the pot boil over. The black and white stripes of your fleeting relationships lead to an endless cycle of despair and contentment, sadness and happiness. There is no way to avoid pain. Why would you want to? Accept it. Love it. We are not here to be happy. Love the dread in your gut and the death if your stomach.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Easy to understand, short, patrician, the perfect entry point into literature.

>>5589958
"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." -H. D. Thoreau

>>5573441
1) Just now starting to get into Kierkegaard, read the beginning of Either/Or.
2) I will continue to read Nietzsche until I have read every available word he has written.
3) Secondary source: Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?
4) Around Halloween I will probably read some of E. T. A. Hoffmann's short stories.
5) I have also been reading LIFE magazine articles from the 60s.

>>5567558
What is YA?

>>5563621
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-solitaries-Kierkegaard-Schopenhauer-Nietzsche/dp/B0006QRM0O

>two World Wars put a damper on the 19th century anticipations of continual progress that had captured the hearts of thinkers such as Hegel and Marx.

Is this true? How did the optimists back then square that circle?

I am looking for good left-wing literature that is more concerned with the labor unionization and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle, rather than gay rights, abortion, gender roles, drugs, privilege checking, and other hippie crap nobody cares about.

Any suggestions?

Who are some poets influenced by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche?

What is the difference between a satirist and a poet?