/lit/ - Literature

only if they are read by sasha grey

I'm looking for an excellent chess book - I am not a beginner - I want something really good! Any ideas?

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>>1808579

perhaps you should invest your time in some serious pursuits, rather than frequenting mustache contests

Today, an entire market has been created for the manufacture of literature designed to make philosophy intelligible to your average moron, all in the spirit of the assumption that "anyone can do philosophy" provided of course that everything is put into fart-jokes and countless other idiotic colloquialisms. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have the genuinely incomprehensible and pretentious works which truly deserve the bashings that the simple-minded laymen of the world give to them. In many ways, these types of books are in fact more damaging than the "moron-friendly" ones, precisely because they create an image of philosophy that is nothing but empty verbosity. That is, they are parodies of genuine thinking.

Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" can be said to be a canonical example (even perhaps the prototype) of this latter category.

>>1586405
You just discovered why pseudo-intellectualism is "pseudo".

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Arnold Kaufmann

hey guys is this a good book

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