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I'm fascinated with the concept of the inwardly free individual - Ernst Junger's Anarch or Evola's Aristocrat of the soul. What are some works that will deepen, or challenge, my understanding of inner liberation? I'm open to more Western works, but I also suspect there are Eastern works that address the subject, though I wouldn't know where to start.

>> No.13061465
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13061465

>>13061445
Science of Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.13061489

Papini is also cool.

If you're ever interested in metaphysical freedom though, as opposed to this sort of Nietzschean psychological freedom, alchemical individualism, body-without-organs type freedom from society, etc., you should look into Berdyaev and the California personalists.

>> No.13061528

>>13061465
Hegel is a slavish philosophy of work; the sovereign response is that of Bataille.
Read Inner Experience and the Accursed Share, Vol. 3, OP

>> No.13061569

>>13061528
How is Hegel's philosophy slavish?

>> No.13061626

>>13061445
Start with the Greeks.
Then read the entirety of Western philosophy, down to modern analytic and continental philosophy.
If you want to read Eastern, read all of it. All of Indian and Chinese philosophy, and everything else.

I'm not joking anon. If this isn't part of your life goal you're not free.

>> No.13061629

in which book does Junger discuss the "Anarch"

>> No.13061681

>>13061629
Eumeswil

>> No.13061693

>>13061681
Anything I should read before it? I've only read "On the Marble Cliffs"

>> No.13061708

>>13061693
It pretty much stands on its own, but Marble Cliffs is probably the best preparation.

>> No.13062381

>>13061569
The truth of the master is in the slave; and the slave become a master remains a “repressed” slave. Such is the condition of meaning, of history of discourse, of philosophy, etc. The master is in relation to himself, and self-consciousness is constituted, only through the mediation of servile consciousness in the movement of recognition; but simultaneously through the mediation of the thing, which for the slave is initially the essentiality that he cannot immediately negate in pleasurable consumption, but can only work upon, “elaborate” (bearbeiten); which consists in inhibiting (hemmen) his desire, in delaying (aufhalten) the disappearance of the thing. To stay alive, to maintain oneself in life, to work, to defer pleasure, to limit the stakes, to have respect for death at the very moment when one looks directly at it—such is the servile condition of mastery and of the entire history it makes possible.