/lit/ - Literature

Deleuze unironically

Dianetics

Eragon

>>12239406
that depends on what you believe in now. where are you politically/philosophically/religiously, OP?

>>12239415
>tfw I no longer believe in science because of Deleuze and Hume
>tfw I no longer believe in time becuase of Deleuze
Postmodernism is a hell of a drug

>>12239426
I am a practicing Christian that does not believe in the literal interpretation of any scripture. I believe in free will, free markets, strong states, I favor continental philosophy, I am admittedly quite misogynistic, and am an egoist. My favorite philosophers are Heidegger and Augustine

>>12239441
and my favorite writers are Nabokov and Dostoyevsky

>>12239445
change that to Tolstoy and you sound like an enlightened chap (read Ivan Ilych)

>>12239441
read neetchan and delooze

>>12239435
read Heiddegger my man

>>12239469
Ty, will order it today

>>12239491
What is the essential Deleuze?

>>12239406
Anyone that has read sein und zeit has confirmed that it actually changes the way you think and that everything afterward is different

Haven’t read it myself though cos I’m not a fuckin dweeb

>>12239541
his essential books are his nietzsche book, difference and repetition, the logic of sense, and the capitalism and schizofrenia series.

>>12239548
OP here, it does, please read it. Certainly in my top 5 all time.

>>12239441
You know of this handsome fellow?

>>12239441
>I am a Christian but apply none of the principles of Christianity in my life
Based and redpilled

>>12239417
Absolutely untrue. RLH was low IQ, painfully. It won't change anything.

>>12239441
These are all contradictory beliefs.

>>12239570
Essential Kierkegaard? Any prerequisites?

>>12239601
How so? Also one of zizek's arguments in the sublime object ideology is that the infinite contradictoriness of our ideologies is an inescapable maxim

>>12239570
Spreading the word of the true knight of faith, good lad.

Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose more well known for his weirdass arthouse movies. While it may look like another retarded self-help-via-crystals book it's actually a series of interviews with Jodorowsky about his life growing up, his artistic process and his philosophies. It made me really re-evaluate the purpose of art as a whole and opened my mind to the idea of the crafting of art itself being an artistic/spiritual process (ie it's not enough to just write a book and call it art, the very process of writing the book can be made into an artistic performance that deeply affects the author). It made me look at art in a very new and expanded way.

It's also just a fun read because Jodorowsky is a fucking madman and goes into detail about all the weird fucking pranks (or 'Poetic Acts' as he would call them) he would pull on people with his friends, including walking through strangers' houses to see how far he could go in a straight line through his hometown, or cutting the arm off a dead body in a morgue and holding it in his coat like it was his own arm and shaking peoples' hands with it to see if they reacted.

>>12239435
Explain

>>12239603
I’m reading ‘Fear and Trembling’ right now. I have to say that I can agree with a lot of what this guy says and I think he’s gonna cure any existential crisis I might have.
>>12239613
Thanks anon. I think I’ll read ‘The Sickness unto Death’ next.

>>12239406
not a book but a story i read at the start of the year that made me able to read anything
>https://pastebin.com/EdeaWwTa

>>12239612
Just because you're aware that it is not possible to have a complete, unclouded, understanding does not mean you're doing anyone any favors by continuing to argue in bad faith.

>>12239421
Novelizations of the Bionicle comics

>>12239441
>free markets
if you're genuinely looking for something to change the way you think, read Capital.

>>12239441
cringe

>>12239406
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald.

Radically changed me for a good three years, every time I read it. Still read it at least once a week. Only takes about twenty minutes. Just read it out loud in your head, and see where it goes. Sometimes it's a glorification of being happy. Sometimes it's about trying to learn and expand your horizons. Sometimes it's a mournful meditation on the meaninglessness of life. Sometimes it's aspirational, and asking you to reach out for love and kindness. It's a good way to think about yourself, by thinking about something else and seeing where those thoughts go.

>>12239406
Race and culture from Claude Levi-Strauss. It's short and easy but definitely worth it.

>>12239406
If you want a real answer:
Revolt Against The Modern World
Its probably the antithesis of anything written in the past 300 years

>>12240007
I have read lots of Marx and took a course on him with a prominent Marxist scholar in the American universities. Still believe free markets is the answer.
>>12240034
Thanks, will check out
>>12240046
Will read
>>12240062
Heard this suggestion a lot, definitely gonna have to check it out

>>12239441
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever read

>>12240326
>>12240019
>>12239681
Do any of you have actual things to say?

>>12240334
post your hog

>>12240301
>still believe in free markets
Then you should read "The Coming Corporate State" by A. Raven Thomson and The Doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini
Evola also BTFOs degenerate economics

>>12239441
OOOHHHNONONONONONONONONONONONONO

1. Plato's Republic destroyed my reductio-materialist philosophy and replaced it with an antecedent to monotheism.
2. Brothers Karamazov opened me up to God and Christianity.
3. The Bible revealed God fully to me. This is impossible unless you are ready for it. Dosto prepared me for this. The same words I read and mocked as an atheist just years before now made my soul tremble.
4. Fear and Trembling showed me the meaning of faith, in the deepest sense of the word.

>>12239441
>I am a practicing Christian.
>I am an egoist.

Pick only one.

>>12241833
and this my friends is how you meme yourself into believing complete nonsense

>>12241864
False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.

>>12239435
Go back to the Greeks.

>>12240062
>Its probably the antithesis of anything written in the past 300 years

Cringe. You people need to read more.

You'll realize that literally anything gets published now a days.

>>12239406
Saint Isidore of Seville Etymologiae

>>12240367
oh no, the chapo NPCfags are spreading

>>12239441
gross

>>12239441
And you're also an American.

>>12241833
>Fear and Trembling
unironically an incredible book

>>12239406
The Culture of Critique series

>>12241833
What's this painting?

>>12239406
>>12239441
de-robotize yourself

>>12239445
Based

>>12242274
it’s babby’s first ontology, and that’s a good thing

>>12242193
Thomas Jones (1742-1803), Landscape with Dido and Aeneas (Storm)

>>12239441
Stop pretending bud

>>12239601
The correct term is neocon/right wing-libertarian.

>>12239406
MAGA Mindset - Mike Cernovich

>>12239441
>Christian
>I do not believe in the literal interpretation of any scripture
>free markets
>strong states
>egoist

uuuuhhhh....

>>12242034
>cringe
Right back at ya pseud
What makes you think I havent read more
You most likely havent read Evola if you think I'm wrong

>>12239406
Maistre's Considerations on France

Klages' Biocentric Worldview

Samuels' You Gentiles

>>12239441
The most contradicting set of beliefs i've ever seen

>>12239646
Sickness Unto Death is GOAT

>>12239406
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck

>>12239406
Industrial Society And Its Future
Technological Slavery
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How

>>12239441
You can't just collect labels like pokemon cards you fuck.

>>12239441

>>12239637
I SPOTTED THE FAGPLEBTARD FIRST.

>>12244276
This

>>12244298
BASED POSTER

>>12241871
Like christianity?

>>12245648
Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But
the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it. It is my contention that while the best judge of Christianity is a Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian. The worst judge of all is the
man now most ready with his judgements; the ill-educated Christian turning
gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of
which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary
boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. He does not judge Christianity calmly as a Confucian would; he
does not judge it as he would judge Confucianism. He cannot by an effort of
fancy set the Catholic Church thousands of miles away in strange skies of
morning and judge it as impartially as a Chinese pagoda.

>>12244298
I chuckled aloud at this. Thanks anon.

>>12239441
You cannot serve two masters. God or technocapital. choose one or the other

>>12245378
Having to click on the image to see the title made this all the better.

>>12239406
Kant.

>>12239567
The literal first argument in Sein and Zeit is bullshit: "I can't define being," well then fuck right off matey and leave room for the big boys

>>12246006
what did he choose

>>12246185

>watches a 5 minute video of a Jordan Peterson lecture on Nietzsche

"Nietzsche pretty much ended philosophy. No doubt the greatest and last philosopher. I live my life by master morality and time is a flat circle"

GK Chesterton. I'm a pretty rationalist thinking. Reading someone who experiences the world through poetic and symbolic moments was pretty jarring.

For me; it's Peirce.

>>12239441
Read Kierkegaard and despair.

>>12248442
CHesterton is fun as hell. Even rationalist should strive to be a bit more jolly, like he was.