/lit/ - Literature

>>15427168

>>15285263
>he's the most essential writer of the last 200 years
He's not even the most important modernist writer.

>>15238060
>Analytic philosophy (the only contemporary philosophy of any real value)

>>14998564
>mfw French intellectuals
Only English "intellectuals" like that cuck Russell are more pathetic.

>>14346503
lol the uk has one the strongest and most lucrative tabloid industries in the world you clown

you don't understand Kafka at all. Maybe its because I was able to read them in their original German but he had incredible introspection and critical insight on the machinations of family, society, government and human existence. One of the greatest authors ever to write in German, on the same level as Büchner and Goethe for me.
>inb4 "hur dur goethe is retarded" don't talk to me unless you've read them in German, I literally do not give a fuck about your amerifagged opinion

>historical materialism is untrue
This is a good bait

>600 page book
>Reads like a dream.
vs.
>150 page book
>Takes fucking forever to get through

Why does this happen.

Name a more reddit philosopher

Pro tip: Can't

>people still don't realize all action and thought has Ideological framing

>life is actually good right now and if it's not it's your fault
must be why everyone's so cheery nowadays

>read Capital you fucking pseud

>Benjamin
>Deleuze
>Marx
>Bolano
>Nietzsche
>Black pill
OP confirmed for the worst reader of all time. Literally all of their philosophies are about articulating and constructing means toward human liberation and happiness.