/lit/ - Literature

>>5861829
Much better than someone who refuses to engage with the actual problem
>we must imagine he is happy
What a crock of shit.

As a warrior.

>>5861829
that doesn't mean anything brother

Transcendentalist, life is much better

>>5861829
This.

/absurdist/ here
Loving my self-justified hedonism

>>5861831
problem?

Spinozism is where it's at, Absurdism is a joke.

>person self-proclaiming him/herself with a little label
>hey guise I'm this, I'm that

Very easy way to spot a retard with no idea what he's talking about.

Is there a philosophical point of view not based in faith of something?

>>5861944
Check my dubs

That's the real philosophy

>>5861829
camus is salinger for the 20's. i expected more from /lit/

>>5861966
Wanna tussle son

/lit/ loves Salinger

>>5861829
>how do you even function?
I don't, I'm on 4chan.

>>5861966
>>5861977

Nice dubs

Existential crises are usually self-obsessed misreadings of reality.

A simple thought experiment: imagine existing on Earth without any other people; everything is the same but there are no people.

Now imagine yourself not existing and everything else being the same.

This simple juxtaposition should be enough to indicate that human life is essentially a social phenomenon.

Now recall that there are other humans in the world who would flourish from your love and who have love to give to you- love in its fullest sense, gratuitous, disinterested and so forth.

The ethical demands of the act of loving humans present enough problems with such urgency that abstract investigations into self-meaning become distant and uninteresting.

QUESTION

Do I get Sandra Smith's translation of The Stranger or is this board too Schopenhauerian to recommend me to do so

>>5862017

op here I completely agree

>>5862017
>love in its fullest sense, gratuitous, disinterested and so forth.

teenager pls, love isnt charity

>>5862106
Technically charity- that is, caritas- is a form of love.

>>5862029
It's the translation I read, and if you google it there are a lot of articles saying it's a good translation. However for a book like The Stranger any translation should be fine (Gilbert, Ward).

Camus was such a filthy happy-go-lucky pied noir faggot. Utterly un-French.

>>5862243
I thought it was in the French national character to enjoy life. Aren't the Germans typically the dour ones?

>>5861829
absurdism is pretty passe' actually. 1940 is long gone bud.

>>5862253
The French like pleasure but they hate fun.

Whats the difference between absurdism and existensialism?

>>5862395
> The three schools of thought diverge from there. Existentialism has generally advocated the individual's construction of his or her own meaning in life as well as the free will of the individual. Nihilism, on the contrary, contends that "it is futile to seek or to affirm meaning where none can be found."[8] Absurdism, in Camus's formulation, hesitantly allows the possibility for some meaning or value in life, but is neither as certain as existentialism is about the value of one's own constructed meaning nor as nihilism is about the total inability to create meaning. Camus's absurdism also devalues or outright rejects free will, encouraging merely that the individual live defiantly and authentically in spite of the psychological tension of the Absurd.[9]

>>5862395
One is about imagining yourself happy and football and the Mediterranean, the other is about horrifying freedom and brooding and Paris.

>>5862395
Here, this is a pithy and reductive look.

>identifying with a single artistic movement

>>5862486
>not going full futurist

>>5862497
>1914
>Not embracing full facism

>>5862533
>not recklessly embracing both with a shivering passion

>>5861977
i pictured him more pokerfaced

>>5862541
>sounds like you're the type of person i want to form a tribe with

>>5862421
>Yes
>Yes + god
>I dunno
>No

>>5862541
>"Bizarre cookbook from which you cannot cook."

Modern life is rubbish.

>>5862635
You can soon. Maybe you can try futurist cuisine in the mean time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_meals

>>5862571
>tfw you interrupt your day of VR assisted drone bombing enemies of the state for a vat grown okapi steak and a few amphetinis with your friends

>>5861966
Salinger cloistered himself like a retard because of too much media attention.

Camus was poor from the start and understood hardship, loved his mother, never stopped fighting against oppression, was against the whole Communist Regime in Russia even though all the other existentialists like Sartre were circlejerking over it and claiming that it was the way to go, and finally died in a blaze of glory.

I'm 22 and im an absurdist.
Wat do ?

>>5863512

A) Kill yourself

B) Accept it

>tfw I'm a rhino

it's pretty good

>>5863523
What would you recommend me to read first ?

>>5863534
how do you post with your big feet

>>5863581

yes i am definitely an absurdist as i think everything is just ridiculous and therefore meaingless

>>5863605
kek