/lit/ - Literature

also book recommendation thread i guess

Ah yeah, Hayek had a lot to say about that Nazi-sympathizer (or at least liberal-hater) Carl Schmitt. What a fucking sack of shit, his ideology basically equates to something along the lines of identifying with fascism, and hating democracy.

>>11538761
whats wrong about hating democracy? you sound like a douche btw

>>11538785
Shut the fuck up you virgin faggot, there’s a reason you don’t have any friends and your whole lineage was raped by guns and tanks, you are a stupid fucking retard who will never have any friends.

Also Hayek is what you want to read, if you still want to take my advice

>>11538835
no, i don´t want to read hayek, you lunatic

>>11538872
Ok fine just trying to give you advice, calm down

>>11538878
then answer my question

>>11538761
Plato was really only wrong about one thing: democracy is worse than tyranny.
Also, Hayek. lmao.

>>11538909
>rating a political philosophers views on ‘right’ or ‘not right’

You fundamentally don’t understand how political philosophy works and neither does Carl Schmitt.

Hayek is okay, but he’s the cure for this kind of shit

>>11538835
wew

>ITT: agressive brainlets 'discuss' their YouTube-level parodies of political philosophers

>>11538748
Thank you, OP, I was unaware of this, but it looks interesting.

So what is this, Primary or Secondary?

>>11539054
actually both if you will

>>11538835
wew lad

>>11538748
I love Schmitt. I will be sure to give this a look.

I took Meier's recent class on Nietzsche at UChicago and it was intense. He's so fucking German it's unbelievable. He obliterates you if you do the typically American thing of raising your hand to ask a half-baked malformed question that he already covered or that is only tangentially related to what he's saying. It's like he has the horizon of intelligibility for his discourse staked out with laser precision and if you say something that doesn't take place SQUARELY within that discourse, you might as well be throwing a pen right at his face.

Meier's perspective on Schmitt is great.

>>11538748
Good book, and Meyer's work on Schmitt is great, but his later and more recent books on Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem are much better. Though he should be tempered with Richard Velkley's work on Strauss and Heidegger, re: his take on the quarrel between philosophy and poetry.

>>11538748
Based and redpilled!

>>11539061
Whadaya mean?

>Heinrich Meier
It says on his wikipedia page that he wrote for a far-right school newspaper when he was fifteen and it seems he never grew out of it lmao

>>11539752
Lmao? That's a good thing though to be honest.

bump

Anyone here read the biography of Schmitt? Thoughts? Any good?

>>11538909
But that was the one thing Plato was absolutely right about

>>11538761
>nazi-sympathizer
xD

>>11538761
*snap*

>>11540915
I've read part of a book called "Crown Jurist of the Third Reich" It seemed fine.

>>11541087
That wasn't the one I was thinking of but I'll be sure and give it a look in the morning. If the thread is still active and alive then I'll go ahead and find the particular biography that I was thinking of. Happy chatting about Schmitt!

>>11539278
based

>>11540915
Which one? There's one by a German scholar whose name I forget and I heard it was bad and sensational and drew too many conclusions from his sexuality.

There's the Balakrishnan The Enemy which is more of an "intellectual biography" which is good but keep in mind it was written by a left-wing rapist.

Meier is really the best scholar I've encountered on Schmitt. Alain de Benoist has written some good stuff as well but Meier goes deeper.

Paul Piccone is also worth checking out. Grab whatever essays you can find by him on Schmitt or anything really. Piccone is a very insightful anti-PC disillusioned Marxist.

>>11538835
oh shit you're pathetic

>>11541211
How? I am not a Nazi-sympathizer. That would be pathetic. To put your hopes and dreams in a bunch of filthy krauts is more embarrassing than putting your faith in a bunch of suicidal gooks flying around embarrassing human existence by killing themselves just to be taught a lesson by a giant nuclear bomb on their ugly fucking civilians.

Fuck you you fucking retard

>>11541235
respect the comma

>>11541240
I’ll be honest with you, I don’t respect or use anything Japanese

>>11541235
SEETHING

>>11541246
This is me again, the one. I suppose some aspects of Japanese people are cool these days. But the military/hierchical engine needed to die, and that’s my point

>>11541251
You lose.

I’ll expand on this. >>11541246

Out of the three countries, Germany, Italy, and Japan, Germany and Italy were by far the worse offenders.

I honestly think japan was just latching onto an opportunity, militarily. But their engine was a dirty, hierchical machine, almost as steeped in social Darwinism as German culture. They needed to lose for supporting that side for sure

>>11541246
>I don’t respect or use anything Japanese
Then we all bid you farewell

>>11541258
4chan isn’t japanese

>>11541273
I said, "Good day"

>>11538835
the absolute state of reddit

>>11541204
A rapist? Citation needed.

>>11541204
Which was the German scholar one? The Balakirshnan one was the one I was thinking of because it was the only one I had heard mentioned around here until just recently. I'll give these other scholars a look though. You a Schmitt scholar yourself or what?

>>11541253
Lmao as if the US was any less cancer during WWII or that there was any "right" side of history. This is a pathetic notion

Thanks, I op, I'm a fan of Schmitt and conservatism in general. Schmitt turned me on to Donoso Cortes

>>11539296
>Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
ah, nice, i bought this one, too.

>>11541457
It was.

>>11541291
Balakrishnan got metoo'd.

>>11541429
After Meier, I am the leading Schmitt scholar in north america.

>>11541646
Do you live in Alaska?

>>11541646
Tell me more about his metooing lol?
So who are you?

>>11538835
What could the hottest latina in history have to say about politics?

>>11538909
Nah I think Plato was wrong that only music and poetry played in certain rhythms can be virtuous towards society.

>>11541783
In 2017, a number of women published allegations that Balakrishnan had committed sexual assault on multiple occasions. UC Santa Cruz launched an investigation in 2017 that was extended in May 2018.[5][6] Balakrishnan remains on paid administrative leave.

The professor, Gopal Balakrishnan, has denied the accusations, made by seven anonymous individuals whose accounts are part of a public statement circulating on the internet.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDeeo3-3SZ6IvhQa38VanjkNYyyKx4NrhBmDydS19_dEg_MO3gcQ5azKaSGve0wsaEOJO7DeiaaFyU/pub

The statement described him as someone who regularly hung out with undergraduate and graduate students in bars and at parties.

"I was introduced to GB as the ‘down’ Marxist professor," she wrote. "Students of the movement were really enamored with him, and it was a must to take his classes," she wrote. "The upsetting thing about this was that everyone knew he was creepy to women. It seemed to be tolerable to everyone because he was a Marxist and supported the student movement."


https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professor-at-UC-Santa-Cruz/241964

Really makes you think.

>>11542028
Read an article about it not too long after I read the above post. Laughable really. Glad to see it happen to such nice guys like him and Junot Diaz. ;)

>>11541646
So who is the second leading Schmitt scholar in North America?

>>11541841
Stuart Oel

>>11541204
Good fuck, thank you for telling me about Piccone

>>11542995
He's great. There's a lot of his essays on booksc. Telos Press went downhill after him.

>>11542995
What is Piccone like?

>>11538748
These men, in my country they are everything.

>>11542917
Took me a while to understand this comment.

Bump.

>>11543019
Tell me more about him?

Glad to see another Schmitt thread again.

>>11541861
Underrated (and true)

>>11548796
Kek

bumpity

>>11539278
based af

>>11552164
and also redpilled

>>11539278
yeah, thats how i remember him too

>>11553031
Any interesting stories of your time with him?

>>11551729
thanks