/lit/ - Literature

>>13716031

Those are some really nice pants.

>>10963160
>recommend reading him mostly as an introduction to other thinkers

I love him for introducing me to so much. Not just other thinkers either, but also interesting primary sources.

I've found little tidbits like these invaluable.

>If you’re concerned about international law, it helps to know something about the subject. I recommend the text that was the standard summary of international law for the 18th and 19th centuries, Vattel’s Law of Nations.

or

>The great unknown classic of the period is Edgar Lee Masters’ biography of Lincoln, written in the ’30s, Lincoln the Man. Masters was from Illinois and knew many people who’d known Lincoln. Imagine if a country’s leading poet wrote a biography of its founding revolutionary hero, it wasn’t a positive biography, it was almost banned, and 80 years later basically no one has read the book.