/lit/ - Literature

>>17831274
what is your profession, friend? what is your endgame with that beautiful collection?

>>17502490
i think you are ultimately correct. i see what you are now saying. im sorry if i misunderstood you before.

>>17502502
what of schopenhauer would you include? seminar has shifted a number of times, here is the current reading lists split across two long sessions. 1st (foundations):
BURKE, EDMUND. A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE, 2008.
DEWEY, JOHN. ART AS EXPERIENCE. NEW YORK, NY: PERIGREE/BERKLEY PUBLISHING, 2005.
HEIDEGGER, MARTIN. THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER ESSAYS. NEW YORK, NY: HARPER PERENNIAL, 2013.
KANT, IMMANUEL. CRITIQUE OF THE POWER OF JUDGMENT. EDS. PAUL GUYER AND ERIC MATTHEWS. NEW YORK, NY: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000.
NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY AND THE CASE OF WAGNER. TRANS. WALTER KAUFMANN. NEW YORK, NY: VINTAGE BOOKS, 1967.
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH. ON THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. EDS. ELIZABETH M. WILKINSON AND L. A. WILLOUGHBY. NEW YORK, NY: CLARENDON/OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005.
WAGNER, RICHARD. ART AND POLITICS. TRANS. WILLIAM ASHTON ELLIS. LINCOLN, NE: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS, 1996.

and 2 (German application):
BISHOP, PAUL. GERMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE DISCOURSE OF PLATONISM: FINDING THE WAY OUT OF THE CAVE. NEW YORK, NY: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2019.
CHYTRY, JOSEF. THE AESTHETIC STATE: A QUEST IN MODERN GERMAN THOUGHT. BERKELEY, CA: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1989.
KINSER, BILL AND NEIL KLEINMAN. THE DREAM THAT WAS NO MORE A DREAM: A SEARCH FOR AESTHETIC REALITY IN GERMANY, 1890-1945. NEW YORK, NY: HARPER COLOPHON BOOKS/HARPER AND ROW, 1969.
VIERECK, PETER. METAPOLITICS: FROM WAGNER AND THE GERMAN ROMANTICS TO HITLER (EXPANDED EDITION). NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ: TRANSACTION PUBLISHERS, 2007.
WILLIAMSON, GEORGE S. THE LONGING FOR MYTH IN GERMANY: RELIGION AND AESTHETIC CULTURE FROM ROMANTICISM TO NIETZSCHE. CHICAGO, IL: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2004.
SELECTIONS FROM: GOEBBELS, JOSEPH. THE GOEBBELS DIARIES. ED. LOUIS P. LOCHNER. NEW YORK, NY: CHARTER NEW YORK, 1948.
SELECTIONS FROM: KIM, ALAN, ED. BRILL’S COMPANION TO GERMAN PLATONISM. BOSTON, MA: BRILL, 2019.

>>17502517
i most definitely will, thanks so much for the interest! i'm already planning an intensive 2 or 3 session seminar trajectory on the presocratics and am retailoring the homer seminar to specifically look at the role of immortality and the "image of the god-man" in the iliad/odyessey, but are there any classics topics you'd particularly love to parse out and dive deep into? would love any and all feedback

>>17448530
31 - m - cambridge, MA
PhD candidate; PR/advertising consultant for corporate blue chip; independently wealthy/run a private library

pretty much all i do is read and help others find what is worth reading. literature surrounds my career and daily life like a halo. i love what i do, what i study, and how it all ties together into a sustainable daily schedule/overall life.

The fundamental similarity between Platonism and Gnosticism of the West, Hinduism and Buddhism of the East, and Zoroastrianism of Persia confirms that all three strands of spirituality have descended from the same divine origin. Discuss.