/lit/ - Literature

Kojeve is garbage, he barely even read the Phenomenology.

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>>21713313
>fell for the guns germs and reddit meme

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>>21713313
Grim

>>21713083
Can anyone please explain phenomenology to me? I honestly don't get it.

>>21713716
Phenomenology is an approach to philosophy which investigates objects of experience (known as phenomena) only to the extent that they manifest themselves in our consciousness, without making any assumptions about their nature as independent things.

If we adopt a scientific attitude to experience, laying aside every single assumption that we have (even including the assumption that an external world exists outside of us), then we can start philosophy with a clean slate, free of all assumptions. This approach is called phenomenology.

Here's an example.
>Science aspires to certainty about the world.
>But science is empirical: it depends upon experience.
>Experience is subject to assumption and biases.
>So experience itself is not science.

Also, I'm pulling everything out of my ass. This was all taken from the philosophy book. I don't understand it at all either.

>>21713320
>Making assumptions about books based on other people's opinions instead of reading it yourself and coming to your own conclusions

Looking to get beck into reading. Any suggestions?

>>21713844
Put away or sell any video games you aren't playing right now you free up space

I have a bigger to read pile but this is currently what I'm planning on reading next. Naked Lunch will be a reread for a graduate seminar I'm taking online in Cold War literature

>>21713844
drop the vidya and move beyond pop politics/culture wars. go to the root. nietzche, dostoyevsky, bronze age pervert, might is right, evola, etc.

>>21713878
how do american beat authors from the 60s relate to the cold war?

>>21713878
interesting

>>21713779
Anon, without any offense to you. How does this make any sense? That's just some nice words. They don't really mean anything.

>>21713083
My current "to read" stack. I've started and gotten about 1/3rd of the way through growth of the soil, I am enjoying it a lot.

>>21713890
Always wanted to know this.

>>21713890
Just venturing from the other books we've read so far (time out of joint by PKD, Gellhorns the Face of War) its thematics. Burroughs was obsessed with the notion of institutional control and bureaucracy; furthermore, his treatment of disease and addiction in his novels cam be seen as representative of a cold war binary mentality, you're either with us or against us; clean or addicted.
Not to mention that he was one of the first agents of counter culture in a period of American history which encouraged conformity of thought. He has the same paranoia as PKD, emblematic of the era's counterculture.
My professor made an interesting point in his video lecture though: what is paranoia if not cultivating a form of close reading? What is literary analysis if not cultivating a cold war mentality, seeing connections everywhere, digging for deeper meaning.

>>21713922
If anyone's interested here's the reading list:
Unit 1:
PKD - Time out of Joint
Martha Gellhorn - Face of War
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Unit 2:
Michael Herr - Dispatches
Yusuf Komunyakaa - Dien Cai Dau
Terry Wallace - Bloods: an Oral History of the Vietnam War
Unit 3:
Joan Didion - Democracy
Hector Tobar - The Tattooed Soldier
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

>>21713922
i get all this but that book in particular (naked lunch) holds none of the themes you're describing. it's an art brut project without any of the culture critique/exploration of his other works.

>>21713083
>americans, posting your 5 books: the thread
shamefur dispray desu

>>21713083
I guess it’s an imaginary stack at this point but I have some books coming in the mail soon. They are
>Henry James-The Sacred Fount, and The Wings of the Dove Library of America
>Fathers and Crows- Vollman
>Democracy in America- Tocqueville

>>21713083
I would but it's a bunch of poetry books and /lit/ hates poetry

>>21713950
I'd disagree so far; the first Benway chapter outlines the relationship between disease, control, and conformity. Benway is, in Burroughs own words, is a "manipulator and Coordinator of symbol systems". The idea of the interzone is a big goof on the idea of the cold war. There's more to it than you think

>>21713904
That's my favorite book.

>>21714011
academia is hilarious because anything can be justified. enjoy your cold war book from a guy who died before the cold war started.

>>21714025
He died in 1997. Cold war started far before that. Are you fucking retarded?

>>21714025
>enjoy your cold war book from a guy who died before the cold war started
>Burroughs died August 2, 1997, in Lawrence, Kansas, from complications of a heart attack he had suffered the previous day
It's always a treat when we have a parallel universe anon ITT

>>21713904
no offense but.. pseud

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>>21714093
it was a joke about anachronism

>>21713142
Reading =\= understanding
>>21713083
Those look unread. Good.

>>21713083
What does /lit/ think of drake's stack?

>>21713880
>nietzche, dostoyevsky, bronze age pervert, might is right, evola
One of these things is not like the others

>>21714352
dostoyevsky is a stretch, i agree. inverted underground man was my thought process.

>>21713880
I hate how Nietzsche, and to a lesser extent Dostoyevsky, has become associated with losers

>>21714368
t.femme demasculated man

single mother?

>>21713083
Yesterday's purchases

>>21713880
Bait

>>21714614
Is that it?

>>21714614
Ive been feeling the itch to get into shakespeare recently. Im not sure of the right way to go about it though. I still have left over resentment from studying it in school. Merchant of Venice and Othello. I love Rome though so maybe Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus & Julius Caesar. How did you get into it anon?

>>21713904
Read my first Hemmingway recently, TOMATS, was surprised how much i enjoyed it. Dont often find American authors like Hemmingway in my country. Id like to read more and thats a nice edition of The Sun Also Rises. Thoughts on Hemmingway?

>>21716105
I got that edition in a library sale, I haven't read it yet nor have I read any Hemingway yet but I also just found a copy of "garden of Eden" in a "little library" free book box.

>>21714021
It's very good so far, my favorite book is Moby Dick, but this may be a close second.

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>>21713313
Do you guys even read those books?

Some of my favorite novels that I want to reread soon with a Plutarch here and there

>>21713313
>alemán sin esfuerzo
>sin esfuerzo
Now that's a proper book for Spaniards

>>21716625
Lonesome Dove. Simple as

purchased today from the goodwill store

>>21713826
I read it and it was reddit

>>21716574
No. Do you?

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>>21713953
hehe

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ive read 1, 2 and 4 since i posted it

>>21716020
I'm a big fan of Melville and Moby-Dick is heavily influenced by the tragedies. I'm also a big Joyce fan and Hamlet is relevant for studies of Portrait and Ulysses.

To be sure, I'm not embarking on a systematic Shakespeare study at this point. These were the cheapest oxford editions at the bookstore I visited on Saturday and also the ones I'm most likely to read. Don't know much about Titus Andronicus but the cover is cool and I appreciated the first page