/lit/ - Literature

>>11491710
We against liberals. Try Culture of Critique

>>11491723
Exhibit A. The /pol/lack.

Rousseau always fascinates me because I normally hate Frenchmen, especially Enlightenment-era, but he stands completely separate from them as this weird anomaly, and as a totally unique genius. There were many times reading the Discourses alone that I realised in a flash how much of whole subsequent philosophical systems resonated with a single off-hand comment he made. He was his own personal little sturm und drang, and he had a systematic mind despite himself.

>>11491723
Try reading him. I thought it was going to be Marxist horseshit but I ended up agreeing with him on many things.

>>11491765
>guy writes 100 years before marx
>its just marxist horseshit

the absolute state

>>11491788
roguepill? you mean rougepill? are you that same fag pseuding it up about requests in mandarin, just stop

>>11491765
He was part of what destroyed our white countries. Try the redpill, so you can wake up from Marxism and feminism

>>11491710
The Social Contract is mostly based, he advanced the notion that the infringement of any citizen's rights is an infringement on all citizen's rights which is a pretty damn powerful and still relevant idea

>>11491864
women and nonwhites shouldn't be recognized as citizen's in a true redpilled nation

>>11491805
>le redpill
>Being told things that affirmed my preconceived notions really opened my eyes!

>>11491805
I disagree. It's pretty clear that the industrial revolution destroyed the west culturally and spiritually.

Marxism is a symptom, not a cause. And ((( they ))) are soulless opportunists.

>>11491905
The industrial revolution was a Jewish tool to enslave the white man to Capital and get Africans and Mudslimes to Europe to take our women

>>11491912
Well I don't think they had the reigns at that point but I grant you, it does have a striking resemblance to their nature.

>>11491912
I swear to God, I can't tell what is satire in this hellhole of a website.

>>11491759
Agree... It's pretty awesome how Rousseau anticipated on ideas later developed by Kant, Marx, also more modern thinkers, and at the same time Rousseau's philosophy can be regarded as complete and perfect itself.
Many people who hate the liberal Rousseau must agree with the conservative Rousseau, etc. It's impossible to just discard every aspect of his philosophy.

>>11492028
actually didnt some literary theory mufuka write some asspained essay about how you can never till if the author is being ironic or not, i didnt read it lol but the dude talks about it in one of the yale intro to lit theory classes

>>11492028
same

>>11491876
neither should non-land owners. or non-whites. or bachelors... damn it's almost like you've started on a slippery slope of deeming who is "worthy" of rights instead of a blanket universality of basic rights...

>>11492070
requesting essay

>>11491710
I think he was wrong about the "noble savage" and state of nature, but his idea of universal rights is very relevant, though he is more collectivistic than Locke.

>>11491710
Based enlightened populist-fascism

>>11491710
Literally who

>>11492092
i think it was bahktin or jauss, i really need to download all the transcripts of that and put it one text file so can search it more easily