/lit/ - Literature

The Greeks

The Culture of Critique

>>11510627
ass

It's OK. Beard seems to dismiss a lot of perfectly plausible ideas about the early Republic out of hand, i.e.
"Those fucking Toga Niggers couldn't form a real army, or create a plan to conquer their neighbors, etc."

>>11510627
Plato's Republic

oh shit, you said non-fiction....

>>11510999
What's the deal with Pinker and ass, mr. reverse Satan?

>>11510627
The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon. He's a fascinating author and I feel like his work is designed open a path from the academic to the esoteric, kinda like Evola but not an edgy shit-stirrer.

>>11511295
Nice

>>11510627
more like positivism now

>>11511142
I remember /lit/ heavily shitting on this book but I can't recall exactly why. Can yall refresh my memory please

>>11510627
Rise and fall of the third reich

>>11510627
Reading Pinker too but that book about writing coherently. Other than that is Sister Miriam Joseph's Trivium.

>>11513816
start the holocaust
THE REICH WILL RISE xD

>>11512577
You're pathetic

>>11510627
bunch of articles from Foreign Policy maganize and two essays about the Self orientalism tendencies of the japanese throught media

>>11514056
Sounds interesting. Wouldn't mind reading all of those if you could hook us all up with them later.

Nicholas Ostler - Empires of the Word

Interesting book about the history of a major languages

>>11513826
great song

>>11514023
go to bed, steve

>>11510627
The Bible

>>11514056
Seconding this >>11514151

>>11510627
my diary desu

The Black Swan

>>11510627
>The case for reason, science, humanism and progress
Kill me.

>>11510627
What could you honestly learn from a book like this?

>>11514706
Giving this a third.

>>11510627

>You say Religion I say SCIENCE!
>You say Prayer I say REASON!
>You say Objective Morality I say HUMANISM!
>You say Tradition I say PROGRESS!
>You say Scripture I scream THE WORKS OF HARRIS, PINKER, DAWKINS AND HITCHENS!

92% of teenagers have turned to fairytales and delusion. If you are part of the 8% that still use logic copy and paste this message to another 5 videos. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF LOGIC DIE!

>>11510627
Isn't that the book where he spergs about Nietzsche?

>>11516351
yepp

>>11510627

I'm reading Truth and Method, which, I assume, would totally annihilate any teleological or pseudoteleological argument that Pinker tries to put forth for enlightenment and "progress". It's highly recommendable. Even if you disagree with the overall direction of his work, his thoughts on art and the classics, as well as the value of humanist education are worthwhile, especially to anyone who is actually here because they like literature and literary classics, and not just to shitpost.

>>11516743

pic related

>>11516180
>>11514151
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/readingroom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html

>>11516743
When someone who's never been a fight tries to be intimidating...

ass

>>11516743
oh christ
the absolute state of anglo thinking

>>11516856
Dun get it.

And I never will.

>>11516743
he's not wrong tho

I read 'So you've been publicly shamed' yesterday and it enhanced my paranoia...book itself was readable and pretty ok tho
>>11514918
Was it good?

>>11516856
steven pinker = s. phincter

>>11510627
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon

>>11516856
based assposter

>>11518219
Also new article by John Gray added today

>>11516778
What's that? Thought you were reading Foreign Policy and articles about Japan? Maybe link to those?

I get my non fiction form documentarys I watch at work

>>11510627
I don't know how anyone can read Pinker unless they are rabidly politically slanted like he is. I'm still pissed I bought one of his books last year.

>>11514363

>>11516743
This is an embarrassing line but I just read his other book, How the Mind Works, and it was very good. Read it for my disso

>>11516202
>AND HITCHENS!
His pre-9/11 stuff was pretty good.

>>11516743
The hilarious thing is that all the writers he flags as fans on N. are writers that /lit/ praise.

>>11510627
Your diary, desu.

Whites should read the review below about this.

>Why does Pinker insist that European national identity must be civic, based on political values alone, without ever mentioning the ethnic state of Israel with its massive wall and regular deportation of non-Whites and non-Jewish immigrants? At the core of the Enlightenment ideal, he says, is the expectation that one should provide reasons for one’s beliefs. What are Pinker’s reasons for his selective demonization of European identitarians? There is a lot of psychological projection in Enlightenment Now. Pinker projects his own irrational feelings about protecting Jewish identity onto white identitarians, pretending he is the embodiment of Enlightenment ideals, while calling European populists “blatantly irrational” and “tribal,” but never caring to “adduce reasons” as to why populists may want to protect their culture.

https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/03/steven-pinkers-anti-enlightenment-attack-on-white-identitarians/

Another jewish gatekeeper, fraudster, and hypocrite promoting one thing for whites and another for his own tribe.

>>11519862
>>>/pol/

>>11519913
*snap*

(((Pinker)))

>>11510627
Bibliotheca by Photius, in translation and on archive, slowly going through and downloading a shitload of public domain translations of authors he mentions. Making notes of lost works.

10/10 would recommend to /lit/ weirdoes into more obscure Roman and Greek works.

>>11519862

His book about the Blank Slate was pretty good, back in 2002. It doesn't seem like he would write it now though.