/lit/ - Literature

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living
Student
>>favorite poet
Keats
>>favorite philosopher
Aristotle
>>favorite novelist
Fowles
>>favorite historian
Thucydides
>>favorite playwright
Aeschylus

>>21058164
>data entry
>Ezra Pound
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Philip K Dick
>Marc Bloch
>don't really have one

1. failed artist, retired
2. Spenser
3. Voltaire
4. Stendhal
5. Thucydides
6. Oneill The Iceman Cometh.

>>21058181
>Voltaire
Gross

>>21058184
>says the guy who's into jewish historians

>>21058164
I exchange the illusion of the capacity to supply labour power for the illusion of the capacity to reproduce my circumstances of being. I do this by cramming huge packages into tight slots.
Mayakovsky
Lakatos
Zola
Sheila Fitzpatrick or Vlad Andrle
Dario Fo

>>21058195
>pseud the post

>>21058187
Well I like his approach. Von Ranke I've found to be too dry

>>21058202
All instances are inauthentic relations, as there is no authentic being. The self is the relation that relates the self to itself.

>>21058219

Musician
Pope or Auden or Milton or John Wilmot or Whitman
Haven't read enough
Nabokov
Procopius
Idk

>what do you do for a living
NEET, formerly biglaw corporate lawyer
>favorite poet
The only poetry I have read since high school was Whitman, so he takes the crown by default.
>favorite philosopher
Hard to decide. I'm a midwit though, so Kant is easy for me to not only digest but explicate succinctly for others. I think that's more valuable than a philosopher who challenges your reading comprehension.
>favorite novelist
I don't really read novels. I'll say Yu Hua because 《活着》was the first book I enjoyed reading in a foreign language when I was into language learning.
>favorite historian
Hannah Arendt (Jew, I know)
>favorite playwright
Does Opera count? Gluck.

>>21058221
Post your dark academia list and your claim that your freshly proletarianised "profession" is somehow better than my labour.

>>21058249
There's nothing wrong with your job, the problem is with your pseudery

>>21058246
>Hannah Arendt (Jew, I know)
Not a historian.

>>what do you do for a living
Electronics engineer
>>favorite poet
Baudelaire
>>favorite philosopher
Leibniz
>>favorite novelist
Balzac
>>favorite historian
Tacitus
>>favorite playwright
Racine

>>21058231
Procopius; a good choice

>>21058164
>what do you do for a living
Musicologist
>favorite poet
Bertold Brecht
>favorite philosopher
Deleuze
>favorite novelist
Roberto Bolano
>favorite historian
It’s a compendium, but the Ratio Book by Clarence Barlowe is great and also covers some historical topic
>favorite playwright
If opera counts it’s definitely Hartmann, otherwise I’d say Goethe

>>21058231
What instrument do you play? I've dabbled in guitar, bass and keys for 20 plus odd years

>>21058283
>Leibniz
Where to I start with him? Seems like he just has a bunch of essays.

>>21058313
A bunch as in writing 100.000 pages and half of it is unedited 300 years after his death.
The best to start with are the Discourse on Metaphysics, the Theodicee and the New Essays on Human Understanding.
Unfortunately he never wrote a single unified magnum opus. The closest are the monadology and principles of nature and grace (two short compendiums of some of his main themes and propositions).

>>21058324
And who are his main influences that one should be familiar with beforehand? Whom does he refer to the most?

>>21058164
I started actually reading pretty much this year, so I don't really have a lot of options to choose from, but:

Medschool
Pessoa
Parmenides
Dostoevsky
Herodotus (the only one I've actually read though)
Shakespeare

>>21058379
It's not the worst start bro

>what do you do for a living
I manage my father's shop
>favorite poet
Eminescu
>favorite philosopher
Maiorescu
>favorite novelist
Slavici
>favorite historian
Iorga
>favorite playwright
Caragiale

What can I say, I love my country.

>>21058339
He's a critical pupil of Descartes. Afraid he's quit eclectic and read all ancient and medieval philosophers available, some Aquinas and Suarez in there, lots of Plato too. He also grew along his contemporaries he corresponded with like Bossuet, Malebranche, etc.

>>21058164
>IT integrations
>don't care enough to have favorites
>don't care enough to have favorites
>don't care enough to have favorites
>don't care enough to have favorites
>don't care enough to have favorites
Sorry man i just came here because it was on the frontpage. I don't even read books.

>>21058434
You browse the front page?

>>21058164
>what do you do for a living
Teach classes at university.
>favorite poet
Tom Kristensen
>favorite philosopher
Heidegger
>favorite novelist
Hamsun
>favorite historian
Too much of a pleb for actual historians, only ever cared about autistic hermeneutical questions in historiography. Favorite here is Gadamer, and he is enough of a historian of ideas to probably mog the shit out of most actual historians.
>favorite playwright
Shakespeare

>>21058246
>The only poetry I have read since high school was Whitman
>I don't really read novels.
>Does Opera count?
/lit/ - literature

>>21058386
Yes, it is, actually
>>21058471
Sad

>>21058481
The posturing has taken a dip in quality. It used to be creative and quite enjoyable but this shit doesn't even pass the Turing test.

>>21058486
>The posturing has taken a dip in quality. It used to be creative and quite enjoyable but this shit doesn't even pass the Turing test

>>21058477
Not reading novels is based

>>21058477
Does non-fiction not count as literature in your view? I don't really consume other mediums of entertainment or novels. I really just read non-fiction and post on imageboards all day.

>>21058511
What non-fiction do you read anon?

>>21058489
Holy what a big head. That kid could become a galaxy brain if he put off Twitter arguments and mutt politics aside

>>21058513
Really anything - works on philosophy (particularly the applied sort, philosophy of science, etc.), biography, political theory, religion, ecology, journalism, whatever. I would say more than anything else I read philosophy of law and legal theory. That shouldn't be too surprising given the legal background.

>what do you do for a living
College student
>favorite poet
Giacomo Leopardi
>favorite philosopher
Schopenhauer
>favorite novelist
Yukio Mishima
>favorite historian
None
>favorite playwright
None.

>>21058164
Veterinary tech
Whitman or Rilke
Nietzsche
Lawrence or Miller
Xenophon
Sophocles

>>21058164
>what do you do for a living
Student/retail worker
>favorite poet
Milton
>favorite philosopher
Plato, but only because I haven't read much of other philosophers
>favorite novelist
Herman Melville
>favorite historian
Tie between Herodotus and Thucydides. They both scratch certain itches.
>favorite playwright
Goethe

>>21058294
Why thank you.
>>21058307
Guitar, bass, drums for 14 years. Wish I was better at piano.

>what do you do for a living
IT middle manager

>favorite poet
Byron

>favorite philosopher
I'm not well versed in philosophy so probably babby's first philosopher Nietzsche

>favorite novelist
JM Coetzee

>favorite historian
Gibbons or von Ranke

>favorite playwright
Shakespeare

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living
Business
>>favorite poet
Dante
>>favorite philosopher
Nietzsche & Plato
>>favorite novelist

>>favorite historian
Tacitus
>>favorite playwright
Tennessee Williams


Any recommendations for novels? I've been largely indifferent to every novel I've ever read.

>>21059314
>Any recommendations for novels?
Well you haven't listed any novelists so what would we recommend by?

>>21059454
The other ones.

>>21059667
>you like strawberries so you may also like swimming

Engineering Manager
Philip Larkin
Thomas Hobbes
Mikhail Bulgakov
Max Hastings
Ain't got no time for that

>>21058164
Binman
Gerard Manley Hopkins
N/A
The Brontës collectively
Bede
Marlowe

>student, learning to be a teacher
>William Blake/Vergil
>Heraclitus/Lev Shestov
>don't read novels much, but I really enjoyed Gogol's Dead Souls
>Herodotus is really fun to read, but Thucydides is game changing
>Sophocles

Paid Janitor
Shelley
None
Jon Swift
Lord Eversley (George John Shaw Lefevre
Strindberg

>>21059741
>>21059937
Based jobs, good taste

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living
breathe (currently unemployed)
>>favorite poet
Pessoa
>>favorite philosopher
No clue. Havent read enough philosophy.
>>favorite novelist
Faulkner
>>favorite historian
Max Hastings
>>favorite playwright
Ibsen

>>21058164
Student
Catullus
Cicero
Cicero
Suetonius
N/A

>>what do you do for a living
Nothing.
>>favorite poet
Myself.
>>favorite philosopher
Myself.
>>favorite novelist
Myself.
>>favorite historian
Myself.
>>favorite playwright
Myself.
/thread

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living
Student while also working as librarian.
>>favorite poet
Cendrars
>>favorite philosopher
Kant
>>favorite novelist
Joyce
>>favorite historian
Hegel ;)
>>favorite playwright
Molière atm

>>21060110
Did you at least read them in Latin?

>software engineer
>Slowacki
>Hume
>Proust
>dunno
>Shakespeare i guess, or Wyspianski

>>what do you do for a living
Teacher at an all boys school
>>favorite poet
Dante
>>favorite philosopher
Richard Swinburne
>>favorite novelist
Melville
>>favorite historian
Herodotus and Ronald Syme
>>favorite playwright
Shakespeare and Gogol

>>21060250
Catullus in Latin, have translated some bits of Cicero, read the rest in English

>favorite poet
Ariana Grande
>favorite philosopher
Neil deGrasse Tyson
>favorite novelist
Michelle Obama
>favorite historian
Neil deGrasse Tyson
>favorite playwright
Trey Parker

>>21058164
>Guide in a museum
>Baudelaire
>Stirner
>Bakker
>Jacques Le Goff
>I don't know, maybe something contemporary

>>21058842
I find drums so hard to master myself

Lots of students here. Never could afford higher education, I think its a waste of time anyways

>>21059937
Neat, a fellow low rent worker like me

>>21060563
Is the museum cool?

>>21058403
Hm, yes, based

>>21058471
Good taste YES

>>21058164
>what do you do for a living
Try not to kms.
>favorite poet
Isaiah.
>favorite philosopher
Qoheleth.
>favorite novelist
Tolkien and Bunyan.
>favorite historian
Luke the Apostle.
>favorite playwright
Shakespeare.

>>21058164
Warehouse worker
Whitman
Hume/ Sextus Empiricus /Socrates
don’t care
no idea
Shakespeare I guess

>what do you do for a living
permanent substitute teacher
>favorite poet
not big into poetry, stevens or gluck probably
>favorite philosopher
byung-chul han
>favorite novelist
bolano or knausgaard
>favorite historian
hobsbawm
>favorite playwright
n/a

>what do you do for a living
History Teacher
>favorite poet
Poe
>favorite philosopher
Fuck if I know. Maybe Aquinas?
>favorite novelist
Hard to say, maybe Conrad
>favorite historian
Marc Van de Mieroop has some excellent works on the Near East
>favorite playwright
Probably Shakespeare because I'm a basic bitch but also a man.

>>21058164
-advertisement
-poetry is gay
-philosophy is gay
-read a gabito book once, was alright. maybe hemingway or one from my cunt
-diodorus
-playwrights are gay

>>21058164
>work in a bookstore / fake my way through an elite physics degree
>Rainier M. Rilke
>Plotinus
>John Steinbeck
>Johann Joachim Winckelmann (art history)
>Shakespeare

>>21060937
>skepticism
Gross

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living?
student, part time at a bookstore
>>favorite poet
Sappho or Li Bai
>>favorite philosopher
Arne Naess or Nishitani
>>favorite novelist
Mishima
>>favorite historian
Klaus Mühlhahn
>>Favorite playwright
Sophocles

>>21060906
But Shakespeare's plays are not very Christian
>>21061548
Advertisement is gay

Huh people here do work in /lit/ fields

>>21058164
Veterinarian
Not there...yet
Aristippus
Dostoyevsky
None
Shakespeare

>>21058195
Germinal is one of my favourite books

>living
Jeweler
>Favorite poet
Blake probably
>favorite philosopher
Abhinavagupta or boehme
>novelist
Goethe or Balzac
>historian
Plutarch
>playwright
It’s generic to say, but Shakespeare, also like Webster and Jonson.

>>21058164
Structural engineer
Charles Bukowski
Dostoyevsky
I’m reading discworld
None
None

>>21058379
Nice list. I'll try Herodotus. Thanks for the tip.

>>21059753
Heraclitus got my interest. I'll give it a try.

>>21063049
I'll add Philippe Ariès as historian.

>>21063086
hey brandon

>>21058164

>what do you do for a living
I fix trails and remove invasive plant species
>favorite poet
tossup between ginsburg and whitman
>favorite philosopher
sheesh, Wittgenstein's an old favorite but I love what Graham Harman has been doing recently, OOO is fucking fascinating.
>favorite novelist
David Foster Wallace. People who dismiss him as cringe literally need to just read him and read him slowly, he was so so so good.
>favorite historian
lol Ken Burns, I'm a brainlet
>favorite playwright
I have no opinions on any playwrights whatsoever so Shakespeare is the only honest answer I can provide.

>>21058164
>what do you do for a living
United States Marine, Aviation Ordnanceman
>favorite poet
William Blake
>favorite philosopher
Don’t have one
>favorite novelist
Flannery O’Connor
>favorite historian
Don’t have one
>favorite playwright
William Shakespeare

>>21063238
You got the wrong guy

>>21063320
>United States Marine, Aviation Ordnanceman
What does that mean? You screw on bombs on the hardpoints on jets or what?

>>21063333
Right now I’m student status so I’m just learning, but when I hit the fleet I’m going to build the bombs we drop on foreign countries

>>21063337
Damn.
Any moral qualms?

>>21058164
>student
>hart crane
>zizek I guess
>either woolf or melville
>China mieville
>Sarah kane

>>21063072
Frater do you have essays on Aristotle that you wrote? Can you share? Also Aquinas

>>21063337
you could have skipped the gay military, studied engineering and uni and had gotten a job at lockheed martin.

>>21063353
No. He’s just going to transport the bombs to and fro the aircraft and load them.

Nightfill manager. Here in Aus nightfill is the department that replenishes stock on the shelves of retail stores and supermarkets. Pretty cruisy gig unless you're a fat retard

Robert Graves

Adorno (>inb4)

Thomas Bernhard

Can't say I have one

I've only read Shakespeare and Beckett so Shakespeare I guess

>>21058164
>Caretaker for people with sever mental disorders
>Charles Baudelaire
>Walter Benjamin
>Franz Kafka
>Diogenes Laërtius
>Sophocles

>>21058164
>>what do you do for a living
Electrical engineer
>>favorite poet
Li Bai or Du Fu
>>favorite philosopher
Spinoza
>>favorite novelist
Proust
>>favorite historian
Will Durant
>>favorite playwright
Shakespeare

>>21064045
so /lit/ janny?

>>21058164

>what do you do for a living

grill.

>favorite poet

Horace

>favorite philosopher

Can Machiavelli be considered a philosopher?


>favorite novelist

Frank Herbert

>favorite historian

None, history should be objective therefore no favourites.

>favorite playwright

Aleksander Fredro.