/lit/ - Literature

>>19895966
They are dead men walking, animated corpses void of life and vitality.

>>10608739
>Neo-Marxist post-structuralism
>logic

gud one senpai

>>10498818
ressentiment

Who are some good anti-egalitarian writers/thinkers?

Is the Ubermensch a Mary Sue?

>>9721277
>we hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal
I'm gonna have to stop you right there Nihilist

Peterson caught it.

The corporate whores at E3 caught it.

Zizek caught it, even if he hated it.

100-something years later, and he's still lighting up our skies, as fresh and original as ever, the one-and-only, the most interesting man who ever lived and probably ever will live.

>Best
The Gay Science

>Runner Up
Beyond Good and Evil

>Most Overrated
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>Most Underrated
Untimely Meditations

>Worst
Human, All Too Human

>>9617700
forgot this faggot

>"I've seen proof, black on white, that Herr Dr. Förster has not yet severed his connection with the anti-Semitic movement...Since then I've had difficulty coming up with any of the tenderness and protectiveness I've so long felt toward you. The separation between us is thereby decided in really the most absurd way. Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world?...Now it has gone so far that I have to defend myself hand and foot against people who confuse me with these anti-Semitic canaille; after my own sister, my former sister, and after Widemann more recently have given the impetus to this most dire of all confusions. After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!"

I'm not too well-versed in philosophy, but what on earth is this supposed to convey? Is this a liberal fabrication after his death?
Is there not an argument to be made that Nietzsche would've browsed /pol/ if he were alive today?

There actually is no self.
Facts do not exist.
Free will? A silly superstition.
Valuing truth over falsehood is just a prejudice.

>>9404560
Aesthetics are our prerogative, it's what makes us human. To discard aesthetics is equal to discarding ourselves. It is truly our prime mover.

can someone remind me where in Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche posits that it's not evil/wrong to kill for money, as it is an expression of will, but it is a sign of a 'low' man, because he is so cheap that he can be 'bought'?

I can't find it. It might be in one of his other works, but I know it exists. Thanks.

>The facts are true, the news is fake.

Wow, another prediction that came true!

Hey /lit/

I just read the first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil.

All I can actually confidently say I can remember is when Nietzsche talks about thoughts, how language confuses philosophers because the sentence 'I thought' implies the thought is your own, when it is not. This tied into what he was describing earlier, when humans use falsities to help us make sense of the world, and that trying to learn what is true is not the best question for philosophers to ask(?).

The rest of it went over my head. I find when I read these kinds of things it takes reading twenty-odd pages in order to get 7 sentences that actually make sense and are interesting.

Is this normal? Am I too pleb to read philosophy?

how do i live a nietzchian lifestyle?

>all these cliche normie answers
Never change, herd.

>>8942987
yes, but

>get your ass handed to you in ww2 by nazi mega-meme
>realize you have fucked up people all over the world. it was fun while it lasted but what the fuck some of it was p. shitty
>realize nothing is left in postwar europe anyways except capitalism & sexual liberation anyways

it wasn't a fucking conspiracy against white men, it was what people were thinking. modern sjw stuff?it sucks. postwar sjw stuff? not so much

and there is a difference between those guys and academics today: all of those guys in that picture were fucking geniuses. yes even derrida. i know /lit/ hates him and he posed for photos looking like a fucking planeswalker from m:tg but it's true. the problem is that there's nothing left today to deconstruct because these faggots were so goddamn good at their jobs, which was thinking

it's the modern disciples that are the problem. and for that that's the redpill. but the french are not the problem. france is the fucking tits and there is no modern redpill without french culture that isn't ignorant redneck garbage

final point, but it's a big one. you know who every one of these guys read? fucking pic related. so before you get your knickers twisted remember who the godfather of poststructuralism is: /lit/'s own favourite guy

>>8917931
>le spooks
Awful meme, Untermensch.

How can you take this guy seriously? I can see why he appeals to precocious college teenagers, but how an adult could think good of him is beyond me.

He represents the infantile whine of modernity - for him, the world isn't as it should be, man isn't as he should be; He knew better than nature how the universe ought to be constituted, much like a petulant and particularly loquacious toddler knows better than its parent how the world works.

The great philosophies of antiquity, whether they be that of Plato, Epictetus or Zhuang Tzu, sought to understand the constitution of the universe and its nature, advocating calm acceptance of the inevitable and unavoidable, and coming to terms with the certainty of uncertainty. The world is as it is, the only way it could possibly be, and as such the way it should be.

These philosophies promised a calm and happy life, and resulted in exactly that for those who developed them. Nietzsche's philosophy promised a new overman superior to all before them, but resulted in driving him to pathetic lunacy. The teachings of Epictetus allowed people in the most horrific of conditions, such as torture in POW camps, to survive psychologically unscathed, and guided men such as Frederick the Great. What has Nietzsche's thought accomplished?

>tfw friend proudly proclaims she is a Nihilist

What he a virgin?

Why does he always look so annoyed?