/lit/ - Literature

if i think about this too much i'll never post it, so i might as well just throw it out there and revise later.

as for the bibliography, there's just a sort of Hotel de L'existence in my head where people are coming and going and giving seminars, fighting with each other and so on. they're in a perpetual state of coming and going - it's sort of like a resort or retreat/BnB and in it i'm basically just the coffee guy, janitor and night steward.

but usually what happens is that they leave books behind, and so over time the resort has to keep expanding to make room for them, because they are prickly and like to have things their way. as such we have had to make room for some various suites for them, all kitted out with things they like, and we have added a garden, a pool, and some other things that make them happy, like an archery range. you get the idea.

anyways, the guys who reserve the most space can be sort of bracketed off into tiers. basically no matter where they are you can and should read everything these guys wrote.

[tier 1]
girard. he bought in early and he's a senior partner in the firm. the Bert Cooper of the place, if you will. the hotel was his idea and he got the money from thiel.

[tier 2]
nietzsche, heidegger and lacan. partners and required reading for most if not all discussions.

[tier 3]
hegel, land, deleuze, sloterdijk, han, and various others. junior partners who are keyed in to the issues of the day. whitehead is here at the moment. han isn't really in this tier but he's in demand atm for explaining why people are often coming and going from the hotel and why the bar always seems to be empty.

and there are a bunch of guys on a kind of permanent guest visa who come and go as they please.

>where's kant?
>or plato?
>or aristotle?
>or leibniz?
>or spinoza?
>or wittgenstein?
i told you, inner self, if i thought too much i'd never post this, so it's a rough draft.
>it's a shit draft
i know

[tier 4]
baudrillard, marx, derrida, foucault, barthes. also mcluhan, who is no doubt very displeased to be here with this bunch.

there's also a special wing for the eastern mystics and sages, as well as the stoics.

[tier 5]
confucius, laozi, the buddha, ken wilber, epictetus, marcus aurelius, heracitus, many others.

really it's not hierarchical, just sort of reflects the guys i take most of my cues from.

if you're new to the place, you can also get a copy of tarnas' passion of the western mind and barzun's from dawn to decadence, those are always there in the lobby, plus zimmerman's guide to heidegger.

of course, the whole place is under construction, and it has moved its location a couple of times. these guys are rarely all there at the same time, and usually one of them is pretty much writing the itinerary for the others when they are in residence.

it's like purgatory except, you know, more cozy.

post /lit/ dwellings.