/lit/ - Literature

>>16229771
This is very based

>>16229771
A sort of anthology about the lives of Greek philosophers, it goes through a bunch of statements by Greeks about the philosopher in question, here is Democritus
https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472113887-ch3.pdf
I can't figure out who wrote it, I can only access the different chapters by changing the number in the URL

>>16229771
>written by a journalist
lol didnt read

>>16229771
>a jew tells us whites are bad
this hack got put in his place in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5AEOztnEag

>>16229771
Rape of Nanking made me throw up, rough read but a good read. Also enjoyed Beneath the United States

>>16229853
It's "Death by Philosophy" from Ava Chitwood. Literally just copy-pasted the first sentence of ch1 in google.

Also I recently finished book 2 of decline & fall, don't really feel like starting book 3 yet desu.

>>16229924
This is a brainlet take

The Holy Bible

>>16229987
hahahahahahah holy shit lmao haha fuck that's good lol who would ever have thought of that hahaha god damn anon good one

>>16230042
glad u agree anon

>>16229771
the new zeihan was pretty good

>>16229771
ayo whitey wuz fucking LUCKY das why de did da shit dey did....

>>16229771
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qvaxPH3ftUQ/

Currently reading Bismarck by AJP Taylor. It's a bit of a hard read, desu. Not sure that I like the prose, or Taylor's angle. Sometimes I don't get through more than 20 pages in a day.

I also found a copy of Eyck's Bismarck. Not sure if I'm going to read it right after or save it for another time.

>>16230139

Based list.

>>16229771
(((diamond)))

>>16230139
This is a real mixed bag

>>16230139
In all your reading, what single thing could you suggest that has been most insightful? Whether it's a contrarian perspective, or historical tidbit.

>>16229771
currently reading Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War by Pat Buchanan. has to be the best historical non-fiction I have read yet.

>>16230483
>what single thing could you suggest that has been most insightful?
Depends. What are you interested in? WW2? Russian Revolution/Marxism? Anthropology? Ancient history of the first civilizations?

>>16231077
>Anthropology? Ancient history of the first civilizations?
Not the other guy but am interested in these two.

>>16229771
>>16229798

absolute midwit tier

>>16231655
You can try reading the Story of Civilization by Will Durant. Its an 11 volume set that will literally gives you the entire overview of ancient history, from Sumeria, Egypt, Mesopotamia to the Greeks, Rome, Jesus Christ till the age of Napoleon. It covers the most important civilizations and cultures, its traditions, its achievements and its impact on our modern world.

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>>16231655
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>>16231843
While that definitely sounds like something I'd enjoy I'm not sure if I wanna make an eleven book commitment.
Think I might pick up the first and the tenth, though. Thanks!

>>16229771
Reading Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger right now and it's one of the most interesting books I've read so far this year.

>>16231843
Damn, he married after the reformation

>>16229771
Been reading & greatly enjoying this, is a survey-level history of the Western frontier during the 19th century, alternates between following key characters during things like the Oregon fur trade and the Mormon great migration and the Texas independence war with some light higher-level material analysis. Doesn't go deep on anything but for a survey work it's very good and helped me narrow in on some stuff I'm digging through the national archives for more detail on.

>>16231861
I did the same thing, I only chose the books that interested me and I doubt that I will ever read the entire set.
That being said If you don't want to read that you can also try reading something like pic related or try searching in goodreads for anthropology and ancient history book lists.

>>16231871
>Damn, he married after the reformation
no, he just got woke on feminism in the 60s and started giving his wife credit, they got married before the first volume came out

>>16230139
also adding to this list

>>16230139

bump

>>16229771

>>16229895
Retard filtres

>>16229771
>Concealed at the top of Figure 19.2 is our first surprise, a big shock for Eurocentric believers in the superiority of so-called Western civilization. We're taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world's great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Those religions arose among peoples speaking three closely related languages, termedSemitic languages: Aramaic (the language of Christ and the Apostles)wrong! they spoke Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, respectively. We instinctively associateSemitic peoples with the Near East. However, Greenberg determined that Semitic languages really form only one of six or more branches of a much larger language family, Afroasiatic, all of whose other branches (and other 222 surviving languages) are confined to Africa. Even theSemitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia. This suggests that Afroasiatic languages arose in Africa, and that only one branch of them spread to the Near East. Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization.

>>16229924
>>16230122
I don’t get how you guys can be so politically possessed that you think this book has a political message that whites are bad, I get that it does not fit with your le 100% ideology but seriously you’re brainlets if you deny the importance of geography in early civilization.

>>16232213
>brainlets
Might this, the very insult you used, the fact of differential intelligence, have been a factor as well?

>>16232213
>>16232145

>>16232159
Just fucking send me back 500 years, I'd rather die at 30 than see this future we are headed towards

>>16232213
>NOOOOOO NOT THE HECKING POOR UNLUCKY NIGGERINOS! ITS NOT THEIR FAULTERINO ITS JUST NATURE THAT CURSED THEM WITH LOW IQ, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION AND NO ANIMALS OR CROPS SUITABLE FOR DOMESTICATION!

>>16229771
Wikipedia, I don't trust jews

>>16231929
Montefiore is trash

>>16229924
Carnage and Culture is an interesting book, but what it and many of Diamond's critics, and Diamond himself didn't get is that they aren't refuting each other.

Hell - if I'd say that God has chosen the mighty Anglo-Saxon race to dominate the world, I can still agree with all the parts of GG&S that aren't just Diamond saying white people bad(and even some of these are still reconcilable with that belief). God has chosen Anglo-Saxons to leave Germany to an Island that had the perfect environment and everything to then dominate the world!
That is of course a very ridiculous explanation of why did history go the way it did, but it shows you how meaningless in the end Diamond's grand hot take is. You can reconcile it with racial differences in IQ, cultural superiority of the west, faustian spirit, furror... every single damn thing can work with this environmental determinism of Diamond.

Now what matters more is that Diamond got a fuckload of things wrong.
>>16232213
It literally does. Diamond raves on about "white psychologists" because IQ bad, whites being lucky, polynesians being superhero geniuses because they kill themselves all the time, somehow 20 million American Indians living in North America(real number is like 3-4 million) etc. etc.

>AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IS THAT A WHITE PERSON RIDING A ZEBRA? I'M GOING INSANE AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

In the Pursuit of Power

bump

>>16232633

He's a Jew, of course he is.

>>16229771

Just finished The Lost City of Z and it's a really great read, although I wish he would expand on some of the tangents further. For example, he mentions the Txukahamei had 6 white captives when they were first contacted in a single sentence, just saying it was "several decades later" without the exact year, etc, and he glosses over most of the search efforts and expeditions in the decades after Fawcett's disappearance.

>>16229771
i recently read guns germs and steel, the part about the development of writing was interesting. are there any books specifically focusing on that? eg. in sumeria or something

A bridge too far

>>16231929
Have this in my bookshelf. How is it?

>>16234640
trash

>>16229771
sorry i don't read pseudoscience