/lit/ - Literature

>>9327692

diplomacy I

>>9327694

diplomacy II

>>9327699

diplomacy III

>>9327701

eastern religion/western esotericism/grimoires

>>9327704

western spirituality/christianity/aspects of conversion

>>9327710

rise of populism I

>>9327715

rise of populism II

>>9327717

rise of populism III

>>9327720

rise of populism IV

>>9327727

rise of populism V

>>9327730

rise of populism VI

You're doing the lord's work.
Godspeed, Op.

>>9327735

rise of populism VII

>>9327746

rise of populism VIII

>>9327750

rise of populism IX

>>9327752

the ancients I

>>9327755

the ancients II

>>9327761

the ancients III

>>9327766

the ancients IV

>>9327770

the ancients V

>>9327774

the ancients VI

>>9327776

the ancients VII/Art

>>9327779

william james/ john dewey/ pragmatism/ art

>>9327782

habermas/ kierkegaard/ arendt/ peirce/ james

>>9327692
Yes, yes, but where are the Lamborghinis? Where are the hollywood hills??

>>9327790

foucault

>>9327795

sartre/ zizek/ thoreau/ descartes/ mcintrye/ virilio/ saint simon/ hayek/ de certeu/ levinas/ paine/ bergson/ hirschman/ nozick/ koselleck

>>9327809

random theory/ de beauvoir/ casserir/ oaskeshott/ art

>>9327817

art

>>9327827

schmitt/ gadamer/ tocqueville/ russell/ austin/ whitehead/ davidson/ kripke/analytic philosophy

>>9327832

frege/ carnap/ ryle/ blanchot/ searle/ random theory/analytics

>>9327836

parsons/ honneth/ williams

>>9327842

kant

>>9327850

hume/ fichte/ german romantics

>>9327865

hegel/ german idealism

>>9327868

ricouer/ mill/ cavell

>>9327874

lefebvre/ spinoza/ cavell

>>9327888

utopia/dystopia I

>>9327904

utopia/dystopia II

you're a good man

>>9327907

utopia/dystopia III

>>9327913

laitin/ collingwood/ reichenbach/ gandhi and non-violence/ maimonides

>>9327925

de man/ laclau/ adorno/ simmel

>>9327933

aquinas

>>9327939

derrida

>>9327945

shklar/ leibniz/ alinsky/ postmodern theory

>>9327692
What do you recommend for understanding power and strategy?

>>9327963

deleuze/ guattari/ baudrillard

>>9327968
If it helps: I've been a bit naive and have only recently become conscious of it.

>>9327972

shils/ locke/ montesquieu/ lacan

>>9327968

oh, my friend, you are in for a treat...

just wait several more posts ;)

>>9327979

barthes/ kenneth burke/ martin jay/ fanon/

>>9327692

>not voting for Trump

Wtf Rapture? I'm disappointed in you senpai.

>>9327981

appiah/ sen/ english enlightenment thinkers

>>9327985

english enlightenment thinkers/ berkeley/ royce/ bruno

>>9327983

you do you, boo

>>9327989

nussbaum/ scheler/ augustine

>>9327794
>>9327692

>>9327992

smith

>>9327998
>>9327968

machiavelli I

>>9327997

i actually weirdly look like that guy

>>9328000
>>9327968

machiavelli II

>>9328003

machiavelli III/ guicciardini/ padua/ critical theory I

>>9328000
Post Lambo.
Post Hollywood Hills.

>>9328009

anarchism/ socialism/ lenin/ trotsky/ kropotkin/ bookchin

>>9328014

marx/ marxism I

>>9328016

marx/ marxism II/ althusser/ lucaks

>>9328011
He said that he hasn't read all these in the OP. Are you this fucking insecure?

>>9328022

art

>>9327692
>american political institutions can no longer carry the burden of societal norms
What did you mean by this?

>>9328025
Just bought another Lamborghini. Need it to store more books in.

>>9327692
I dont know if you have any of these but here a list of stuff i’ve been struggling to find lately.
I would be incredible if you could dropbox any of these.


Jean-Francois Revel’s - Last Exit to Utopia,How Democracies Perish,The Totalitarian Temptation.(or anything else except Anti-Americanism which I own)

Writers and Politics - Conor Cruise O'Brien

Robert Jay Lifton’s The Nazi Doctors

Orlando Furioso – The Sir John Harington translation . (which should be public domain but I cant find it anywhere) or the Barbara Reynolds translation would also be great.

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

>>9327692
God bless you, OP. This collection is amazing. I'd love to stand in it and smell the unread words, the uncracked spines, and think of how many evenings overprivileged undergrads spent chasing stinky New England quim.

Choosing a book to scan will take some perusing. Is one to choose dollars per word? Or what is most interesting? Or least /lit/ meme-y? Decision, decisions...

>>9328026

art

>>9328095

nietzsche

>>9328029

i would simply argue that our formal democratic institutions--the executive and legislative in particular--no longer serve the public good.

>>9328045

i've ordered all these and will scan when they arrive. i will create a thread with the dropbox at a later date.

>>9328098

elkin/ walzer/ sandel/ durkheim/ agmben/ schopenhauer

>>9328100

rousseau/ french revolution theory/ robin

>>9328105

leopardi/ mayer/ quine/ burke/ michelet

>>9328108

comte/ nancy/ merleau-ponty/ vico/ popper

>>9328110

berlin/ the french revolution

>>9328112

goffman/ performance theory/ heidegger/ oxford philosophies/ bataille/ strauss/ celan

>>9328116

hobbes/ lichtenburg/ bourdieu/ husserl/ wittgenstein/ anscombe

>>9328117

assorted anthropology/theory

>>9327692
Amazing. How long did it take you to acquire all these books? I hope some day I own something similar.

>>9328121

assorted theory

>>9328120

thanks--i'm 27, began collecting around 18, so 9 years or so?

>>9328124

economic theory/ studies in charisma/ weber/ nationalism I

>>9328126

nationalism II/ rhetoric

>>9328128
>>9328045

russia/ fascism I

nazi doctors will be scanned in by friday.

>>9328129

fascism II

>>9328098
Can you expand on this? Do you mean they still represent the public and the public simply fails to have interests that are in their own good or that the institutions no longer represent the people. Have the institutions failed or the public. In either case how and why?
If the people have failed should our institutions be adjusted to accommodate that failure or should we try to fix the people. If the institutions have failed how can they be fixed?

Are the political projects of resistance and liberation the public against the government or the individual against the public? As a student of history is there a similar period of history you would compare this one too? if so what acts of resistance and liberation from that era are in the same vein you have in mind?

>>9328124
I am currently 21 but I have a decent collection of good titles going. Thanks for posting this thread. I will continue buying as I see these titles.

>>9328130

aesthetics and politics


>>9328133

man, there is a lot to say here. ill drop a couple points--but im a little tired, and will respond in full tomorrow. i would say: it is both a failure of representation (see hannah pitkin; jan muller; eric voegelin) as well as a failure of the public. as far as representation goes, there are two aspects to this: 1. the operative ratio of representation set down by the founders; madison thought that anything about 1:30,000 would fail to adequately represent collective interests--we are now reaching 1:750,000. 2. the representatives themselves are no longer responsive to their constituencies in meaningful ways. compare today's party politics to the political machineries of the early 20th century--ima too tired to elaborate so ima just link you to a blogpost of mine to cover the rest (see point 3): https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/03/02/on-the-2016-presidential-election-explaning-the-failure-of-the-left/

>>9327692
Good to see you again familia, do you still have all those math textbooks?

>>9328149
>>9327968

war/strategy I

>>9328133

as far as the public goes, i would say the following: it seems to me that there are three primary forms of the "public" in democratic politics.

1. publics that form in response to extraneous stimuli (John Dewey's model--whether these publics are formed as effective responses or not, as pragmatic or not, doesnt concern me here, however--only that people collectivize around actual crises/events)

2. publics that form in response to pseudo-stimuli and false events (anti-vaccinators, for instance), or publics which are formed on bases other than reality, such as charisma or "fake news"

3. publics in potentia that fail to form in response to actual extraneous stimuli (I am here thinking of Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918--Crosby examines the "cultural amnesia" and lack of direct response to what was obviously a devastating crisis, and I think that his analysis is sound)

i no longer think the public operates in line with 1, but now vacillates between 2 and 3, at least in the current state of american populism that we find ourselves

>>9328161
>>9327968

war/strategy II

>>9328156

i do! will post tomorrow if you like

>>9327968
>>9328166

war/strategy III

>>9327968
>>9328169

war/strategy IV

>>9327968
>>9328171

war/strategy V

>>9327968
>>9328174

war/strategy VI

>>9328178
>>9327968

war/strategy VII

>>9328181
>>9327968

war/strategy VIII

>>9327968

applied business strategy/marketing/PR I

>>9327968
>>9328201

applied business strategy/marketing/PR II

>>9328206

applied economic theory

that's all for tonight--very tired. will post the rest (american history, european history, literature/poetry, aesthetics, and assorted political theory) tomorrow.

goodnight!

>>9328098

>i've ordered all these and will scan when they arrive. i will create a thread with the dropbox at a later date.

Wow, that’s incredible, im overwhelmed.
If you except contributions i could scan some of my own rare books, mostly poetry and essays, and host them somewhere.

>>9328226
Brilliant work, also what made you decide to build this collection? Looking forward to more.

>>9328226
Looking forward to the literature/poetry sections!

>>9328226
My God, even though there's been many thank you's in this thread already; you're great.

Gonna add to the thanks mate, you've added a lot of interesting books to my reading list.

>>9328250
not him but can you please scan and post some poetry? just one or two of your favourites, preferably rarer ones !!

>>9327692
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha


also i go to a better school than you

>>9327809
>>9327817
>Sartre
>Beauvoir

Why no Camus? Why does no one ever have Camus? He is so much better than Sartre.

>>9327692
what are you gonna do with all that knowledge? Seriously, are you just driven by curiosity and thirst for knowledge or do you plan on doing something?

Are there ebooks and pdfs hidden inside these yuge images or what?

>>9327692
one of the biggest pseuds on /lit/ right now

Godspeed you!

>>9327692
thanks

Thanks Andy

>>9328212

theories of the crowd/assorted theory


>>9329206

ill post my lit collection later today/tonight. ill scan whatever poetry you would like.

>>9329289

patience, friend. camus comes on the horizon...

>>9329347

thank you for asking.

this is going to sound like a lie, but it's true: i'm the world's youngest survivor of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (a particular form of pancreatic cancer). while i am currently cured, their is a massive rate of recurrence--if it comes back, i have exhausted all curative options, and it will certainly kill me.

at this point, my desire is singular and simple: to spend the rest of my days working to build the necessary multilateral international network capable of consolidating resources/data in an effort to once and for all rid this world of cancer.

please note that this is not merely a silly pipe-dream, an immature reaction of someone who experienced a disease and thus wants to get rid of it. no; what drives me is the fact that it is not nature that stands in our way, but man. we have had the power to end strife on a mass level since at least the 17th century. here is R. H. Tawney on the subject:

"Mankind it seems, hates nothing so much as its own prosperity. Menaced with an accession of riches which would lighten its toil, it makes haste to redouble its labours, and to pour away the perilous stuff, which might deprive of plausibility the complaint that it is poor. Applied to the arts of peace, the new resources commanded by Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century might have done something to exorcise the spectres of pestilence and famine, and to raise the material fabric of civilization to undreamed-of heights. Its rulers, secular and ecclesiastical alike, thought otherwise. WHEN PESTILENCE AND FAMINE WERE CEASING TO BE NECESSITIES IMPOSED BY NATURE THEY RE-ESTABLISHED THEM BY POLITICAL ART." (Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, pp. 85-85; New York, NY: Verson, 2015)

i swear to you, either it will die, or i--there is no room between. nietzsche obviously thinks it is the choice of an enemy that helps define the self; i chose death. what more can i say? i cut my loss at the tideline; it caved from the waves as they passed by...

ily bby girl

>>9329553

assorted theory

>>9329559

assorted theory

You didn't read any of those books.
No one is impressed or thinks you're smart.
You will die alone.

>>9329560

assorted theory

>>9329565

assorted theory

>>9329562

why don't we start over, yeah? find a friend rather than an enemy? my name is william. what's yours?

>>9329572

assorted theory

>>9329579

assorted theory

>>9329581

assorted theory

>>9329584

assorted theory

>>9328054
(you)

>>9329590

assorted theory

>>9329572
I just don't understand what leads to behavior like this.
Why someone would be this insecure and want people to perceive them as being "intellectual."

Like even if you managed to speed read through one of those shelves, you're still not comprehending all of the info in the books.
You might think you are, but I hate to break it to you, you're not.

The only way I would believe you read more than 0.001% of these books would be if you were like 80 now and started this collection when you were 20.

>>9327809
where to start with de certeu? I'm particularly interested in everyday resistance i.e detournement.

>>9329592

assorted theory

>>9329593
He said in the OP that he mostly uses them for reference.

>>9329562
Projection at its finest dudes got cancer sitting in the basement of a library and y'all can't just let em have one W

>>9328016
I'm interested in Bordiga but I know he gets a bit crazy in his late work. Do you have any idea where the a good cut-off is for his books?

>>9327692
>full Proust
>all that Alice Munro
My guy.

>>9329600

assorted theory

>>9329593

what are you talking about? i've probably read about 10-15%; no more. but i have committed to reading a lot--i teach courses in political theory and american history at the university level. your claims don't really make sense, and i'll be the first to admit that the vast majority of my collection is for reference--an essay here, a chapter there, etc.

to be honest, i think you're strawmanning me a little. but that's neither here nor there--again, let's drop the whole "i'm intellectual/ you arent" thing--i'm honestly just someone who wants to share what i have. if have any desire to read any of it, please just let me know.

until then, like i said: my name is william. what's your name? what do you do with your time on this world?

>>9329598

the practice of everyday life! also, lefebvre's critique of everyday life, and goffman's the presentation of the self in every day life--can i scan any/all in for you??

>>9329624

assorted theory

>>9329598

but in terms of every day resistance, def. check out these books>>9328130

especiallythe vaclav havel, the captive mind, tony judt's book, otto friedrich's before the deluge, and ordinary men

>>9329637

assorted theory

>>9329646

assorted theory

>>9329624
I'm sorry. You seem like a nice guy.
I just assumed you read all these books because that's usually what people on here would claim.

Is there anything specific you are referencing or researching?
If you already mentioned it in the thread and I didn't see it, I'm sorry.

>>9329650

assorted theory

>>9329654

assorted theory

>>9329652

no, no, i understand. no worries at all--water under the bridge...

what do you study/what are you interested in? is there anything yet i can add to your collection?

>>9329662

assorted theory

>>9327795
What the fuck

>>9329654
>>9329662
>>9329664
none of these books look they've ever been opened.

do you even read?

>>9329662
What are some good books about political concepts that can actually be applied to every day life and dealings with people?

Not necessarily Macchiavelli, but maybe things similar.

I'm probably not explaining what I want right, but that's what you have to work with.

>>9329637
>>9329624

I've read goffman, debord, lefebvre, bourdieu, borgmann, scheller, and i have the practice of everyday life but was told there was better de certeu.

I don't want to overload you but the captive mind sounds really interesting and in my wheelhouse. a scan would be appreciated. maybe the intro and first chapter so I can get a picture on whether to buy it or not?

>>9329711
You clearly didn't read the thread.

>>9329711
Nu, do you even read BRAH?

I read EVERYTHING about a historical event even when it is a colossal waste of time to analyze the surrounding and distant aspects of a piece of literature when I am only using it for citation or evaluation of a thesis.

BRUH MY BRAIN 2 BIG 4 U

>>9329725
nah. it was too long

>>9329731
sounds like a waste of money if you ask me.

what's the point of trying to gain status non weeb image posting site by posting a picture of your book collection then proclaim that you haven't even read half of it?

and you're trying to make me out to be the retarded one.

>>9327850
>>9327850
Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant
That very rarely stable

>>9328116
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could drink you under the table

>>9327865
David Hume could out-consume
>>9328100
Schopenhauer and
>>9327868
Hegel

>>9328117
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

>>9328098
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist

>>9327761
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

>>9327874
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

>>9327774
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

>>9327770
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle

>>9328117
Hobbes was fond of his dram

>>9327809
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

9327761
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

>>9329767
Someone might see a book that sounds interesting and will want to read it. I'm sorry you have no imagination.

>>9329767
I, too, read the thread in its entirety.

Silly OP, posting book images for status!

>>9327692
>i have not read all these books; what i own is mainly for reference. i do, however, have a nice flat-bed scanner and am willing to scan in and dropbox some of the rarer documents/texts i have.

YA WHAT A GIANT FAGGOT OP IS LOL HE DIDN'T READ BOJEK

>>9327692

i dont need you to scan any of these books. but id like to say that this is a marvellous thread and that i like you.

>>9327692
>it is my opinion that in the trumpean era that we find ourselves in, american political institutions can no longer carry the burden of societal norms
>wanting political parties and the government to enforce culture that isn't organic
>thinking that PC diversity trash is organic or that it reflects the unconcsious prejudices of every American that are immutable and totally tied to genetically programmed in-group preference
>being this much of a highly educated cucked idiot
>proving once again that a college education means little to people with an above 110 IQ and that anyone can get into Cornell if they have the right family background, ethnic identity and/or suck enough administrative cock
you should consider switching majors to something less insufferable

>>9329979
Anon you didn't have to be so rude, sure he sounds a little pompous with the whole "fuck drumpf" undertone, but just calling him a cuck when he hasn't bullied you ain't gonna help change his mind.

Also fuck off back to /pol/

>>9329347
>>9329553
I appreciate the sincerity and I hope you make breakthroughs in your research.

Thanks a bundle buddy, there's a lot here that I'd love to one day delve into! I wish I read more, I get by a lot as an English Ed major from skimming whatever we read and regurgitating what the professors want to hear, but I wish I had the motivation to actually sit and learn more. Any one particular book or author that would reignite my desire to learn and read?

>>9330014
>Also fuck off back to /pol/
>implying i'm from /pol/ and not from /leftypol/ which is down right now because of the super awesome april fools day hacker
4cuck is much more sensitive than I thought

>dude I need to preserve books and knowledge because Trump is going to start book burnings again

Is this what liberals unironically believe?

>>9330051
maybe not, but Trump is seriously anti-intellectualism.

>>9330060
He destroyed the two most powerful political dynasties in under a year and became President of the US by throwing every single rule of how to win an election out the window.
Thousands of books will be written about it.
Trump is one of the smartest men who ever lived and he's smarter than you.

>he fell for the "Trump is stupid" meme
Keep watching John Oliver.
The first mistake is underestimating your opponent.

>>9330071
Nothing said there refutes the claim that Trump is anti-intellectualism. It's just a rant about how he won an election that was largely misunderstood by media, but you can keep deluding yourself that any critique of Trump is a fake news driven attack on him and that he secretly is actually a genius who knows everything.

>>9330101

Trump just gave $20 billion to NASA's budget.
Because we actually have money to pursue things like that now because we're not a welfare state anymore.

Hillary would have given that money to Mexican rapebabies to come here illegally.
Assuming she didn't spend it on funding terrorists first.

We're probably going to Mars in Trump's second term, but even then you'll still say he's anti-intellectual because CNN told you so it must be true.

>>9330071
How in the hell could you possibly believe that Trump is one of the smartest men ever? He's a business man that knows what people want to hear and how. He knows the general public wants a show, and he made that out of his campaign and run, but the man is a dolt.

>>9327692
Any Thomas Babington Macaulay works? Nice collection, how is it organized? Do you have a catalogue?

>>9330115
>Trump's second term

Oh god my sides please stop Anon. AUGHGHGH

>>9330115
Nasa budget has been 19-20 billion >>9330115
the last 8 years, are you actually that stupid?

>>9330119
If you can't see how Trump is a genius, then that's why you're stupid and he's the President.

>>9330125
I bet you unironically thought Hillary would win.

Democrats are going to have a rough next 20 years.

>>9330126
What's 20 + 20?

>>9330115
So he gave NASA what their budget already has been? Got it, he clearly is not anti-intellectual then, after all he gave money to NASA, which isn't part of his job or anything.

>>9330145
Me again, would also like to say this conversation doesn't really need to continue in this thread, there's a much more important matters being done in here.

>>9330159
It's the same thing that happened to HWND, even though it was a ridiculous and artistically bankrupt endeavor, /pol/ just had to have their hands on it and ruin it, making them look as idiotic and immature as Shaia and company.

>>9330128
Trump is not a genius.

>>9330132
I thought she would win because I thought better of the people of this country, that they wouldnt be persuaded by showmanship, and blatant boasting. Trump won because he appealed to the irrational side of America. people like you who think he is a genius for some reason.

Christ, obviously all these are good quality books, but collecting has gone a little overboard here...

Have you even read 1 out of every 100? Grad students shouldn't have that many books. And where is your literature? Do you even have a soul or are you some kind of automaton librarian?

>>9330204
literature is the best of all we have by which to face the fact that We Are Going to Die (sorry op, hope the cancer stays away for good though)

better collecting books than...than anything else...

We should make a few torrents to go with these pretty pictures.

Basic - just the minimum something everyone can realistically read in a few years. (25 -100 books)

Standard - More than just the bare bones. (250-500 books)

Ultimate - everything

I have started a folder of everything I can find throw irc/torrents/libgen/other.

suggestions what should go into basic and and standard?

>>9330204
Read the thread. Anon is doing research and uses them for reference, and obviously he's read more than a few (im assuming) and if you had the choice of having all these books and a space to keep them in wouldnt you do it? I would.

>>9330194
On the day you take your Renaissance poetry degree and go out into the world for a job, you'll understand why hard working Americans supported Trump instead of the woman who promised to bring in a million Mexicans to replace you.

>>9330226
>implying you need all that for a shitty degree

>>9330228

pol pls go. I grew up in texas and fucking let however many mexicans want jobs in. I don't plan on breaking my back working a construction/landscaping job anytime soon. also their women know how to fuck and are really good looking. have you ever even spent any time talking to one?

>>9330204
You can see Infinite Jest to the bottom-left of the first picture, I'd assume that's where his literature is, unless he's using it as a New Sincerity textbook.

Honestly OP I'm more than a little jealous that someone like you is even more of an intellectual fraud than me and can afford such a library to prove it.

Kindly get fucked, I wish all the worst for you.


--- a furious Anon

would you guys stop taking some bored loser's trump b8 and ruining a great fucking thread

>>9330248
God damn, can you be any more cucked?

>please Mexicans come take our jobs
>please don't assimilate or learn English
>please increase the crime rate because you have no respect for our country's laws

It's morons like you why Trump won.
Keep up the good work. We're hoping for a bigger landslide in 2020.

>>9330252
He probably needs that for his very important degree too, all those unread spines count as research; they transmit their expertise through the air molecules which flow in the air conditioning from those pristine pages.

>>9330228
Stop projecting so hard. I have a job and pay taxes, done so for the last 7 years. I'm all for stricter border control and investing in the homeland, but Trump is still the shortbus kid that got lucky. no amount posturing from your side will change that, and you will have to live with that for the rest of your life.

>>9330269
OP is literally the image of a hyper-academic moron.
>"tfw to smart to read anything that isn't printed by university presses"

>>9330233
So I guess you didnt read the thread? OP is doing more than just his degree. Stop being a dick.

>>9327692
you just cured my addiction to buying and amassing books

thank you

>>9330262

motherfucker I work a well paid white collar job. literally a majority of the mexicans (non-native) speak at least passable english and respect the laws because they value the money they are making working their asses off to support their families back home and don't want to get deported.

the lack of tax revenue from poor illegal mexicans who just want to eat pales in comparison to the fraud of supply side economics and massive corporate welfare dished out by both parties.

stay scared quivering in your little anti-intellectual pure-blood booties you mong. venture out of the basement sometime.

This guy needs to sell all those permanently unread books and pay for some friends and a lifestyle. At a certain point it's less impressive and just autistic. There's obviously some glaring wound to his ego that he needs >this much boring stuff he himself obviously isn't interested in reading

>>9330294
Yes OP those unread books are really doing so much for you!

>>9330303

>somebody think of the poor illegal mexicans!

If they didn't want to starve and be separated from their family, maybe they should have thought of that before they jumped the border illegally.

the amount of transparent samefagging from OP itt is staggering

are you really that desperate for validation that you will samefag to defend yourself on /lit/

consider suicide, then suicide.

i will post more in a bit, but please, to all those interested in the purpose of this thread: ignore those that seek to turn this into a political argument. they have yet to find the arduous way; they know not who they are, nor what they do. pity their anger--it is only self-torturing pain.

i will say only: i am no liberal. i find the alt-left as insufferable as the alt-right. my politics fall somewhere between aristotle, aquinas and hegel: i believe thoroughly in the "moral economy"; i believe thoroughly in the hierarchical nature of social construction; i believe thoroughly in the re-evaluation of labor, as both a point of individual pride (my answer to rousseau's amour propre) and as a matter of cyclical societal advancement (locke).

please do not strawman me. just because i disagree with trump does not mean i wanted hilary. rather than attack blindly--why not start a conversation and ask?

i see what this board could be: a community of like-minded individuals committed to self-improvement. i offer my resources in an attempt to help build the mortar for that community to exist.

>>9330303
>stay scared quivering in your little anti-intellectual pure-blood booties you mong. venture out of the basement sometime.


t. academic dupe who writes in smallcaps and considers himself an intellectual

>dude knowledge is power lmao
>dude trump

Someone archive this thread, it's more pathetic than anything BookTube thread; belongs in /lit/'s hall of fame.

>>9330318

what? they jumped the border illegally because of underemployment in their own country. they are concerned with feeding their families not being separated from them. most work over here for a couple years (sending most of the money back to their family in mexico which lets be honest isn't a whole lot) and then return.

>>9330347

>most work here for a couple years and then return

My fucking sides if you actually believe that.

/lit/ truly is a gold mine of comedy.

>>9330332
What a nonsense laden post. I bet you think you're smart don't you? But you only talk by invoking authorities. You're also monolingual!

>my politics fall somewhere between aristotle, aquinas and hegel: i believe thoroughly in the "moral economy"; i believe thoroughly in the hierarchical nature of social construction; i believe thoroughly in the re-evaluation of labor, as both a point of individual pride (my answer to rousseau's amour propre) and as a matter of cyclical societal advancement (locke).

Sure thing buddy.

>>9330338

I'm not OP and not an academic. and literally who gives a shit about proper punctuation, capitalization, and syntax when writing on 4chins?

>>9330316
>pay for some friends

lel

This is the most autistic thing I've seen on here

like, why not use your university library for references?

>>9330362
>posts no opinion
>critiques
im not OP but its you retards who have ruined the internet

no one cares about your non-existent opinion bro

>>9330362

patience, brother. i know what pain lingers in you, what insecurities threaten your existence in the darker hours of the morning--i have been there, too, full of anger, full of a desire to attack.

but there is another way, and i hope to offer what i can to help you find it.

let us share in our experiences rather than denigrate each other. we both shall die one day--one not make something worthwhile in the meantime?

here is one of my favorite poems. i offer it only because it touches me every time--perhaps it may touch you as well: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48422

what are you most interested in? what is it you want from this world? help me help you achieve it.

>>9330361

some don't sure. but many men who come to work here to support their families do. have you interacted with these people at all in any setting ever?

>>9330396
don't respond to brainlets

they are only here because they can't control themselves from shitposting all day :3

and they wonder why they have no skills

>>9330374
This!

I'd like to see his amazon orders.

>>9330386
>I'm not OP but
Nobody is interested in your scholastic autism OP when you're a monolingual university pleb who can't even manage to communicate in clear English.

>>9330393
>getting defensive and playing Le wise man
Pic related mfw

>>9330409
i am not OP
>university pleb
sorry we don't all sit around and watch money we never made grow from investments brainlet

I dont know why everyone is shitting on OP. I wish I had a giant library like this one, but I would have more fiction than non-fiction.

>>9330409
>scholastic autism
>lit
kys plz

what's the square footage thus far?

>>9330318

your proletarian ancestors had some fine paperwork i assume, all müllers, millers and morettis should have been shot on sight on the off chance that at least your particular variety of dullness might have been expunged

>>9330409

what do you gain by this? why pursue strife when you could develop community?

again, i can only try and restart; but beyond this,i will not try again: my name is william. what is yours? what are you interested in knowing about?

let's take me out of the equation entirely. you're right: i'm a pleb, i've read nothing; i'm austistic; i'm a cuck; i only spend flagrantly on books so others will find in me the illusion of intelligence; i have no friends and will die alone. so be it-- i am nothing to you, nor anyone else.

but i say again: what is it that YOU want from this world?

>>9330414
Who even said anything about investments?

You've bitten on the university 'research' hook and become a massive dupe, all you have to show for it is the kind of library which should belong to your university institution inside your own home. This is as autistic as the grown men who buy antique trains to keep in their garages. What's the point of having a great library when it's simply there to make up for your dull mind and total lack of inspiration. Just look at how little fiction or foreign languages there are, you even have the obligatory unread Infinite Jest.

Nobody in the history of /lit/ has been meme'd this hard before.

>>9330426
At a certain point you learn that being able to cite plenty of authorities doesn't necessarily equate or even correlate with having anything interesting to say or think.

>>9330448
i am not OP

i like libraries
i like too look at things for extended periods of time
a library for the purpose of collection is the least plebian thing you could do by definition
you came here to shit post about someone you know nothing about - to stop him from posting ?

>>9330456
>interesting to say
it is pretty doubtful any of us have anything interesting to say - engaging or passingly clever, sure

>>9330456
Anon would do a lot better to take a walk in the wood or talk to a few people than to bury himself in this much junk. Research is good, but show this to any of your professors and I'd bet they'd be laughing at you.

>>9330436

>yeah man fuck the system
>down with the mega banks
>420 blaze it yo
>i use words like proletariat and expunged, look how smart i am

Everything I Learned About Politics I Learned From Rage Against the Machine: The Post

I really really hope this is some litposter who found some professor's personal library and is posting it. Imagining someone reading this much non-fiction while still being a grad student is insane. What would the point even be of plowing through hundreds of political theory books and not absorbing or applying any of it?

>>9330466
>i like libraries
>i like too look at things for extended periods of time
>a library for the purpose of collection is the least plebian thing you could do by definition

>least plebeian**
I think that's actually the definition of dilettante.

>>9330484
if there were a particular topic he were pursuing - sure - but the word is meaningless without an object (of interest) for you to criticize, right?

also, your comment doesn't address or invalidate what I said, do you know the history of roman libraries?
or are we just playing invisidicks, where we both hide identity, interest, knowledge and then shake each others' dicks when we proclaim our love of capitalism's 'meritocracy' and Trump?

>>9329725
>>9329731
>>9329810

OP's insecurity for being a pseud is undeniable here.

>>9330512
More like yours is showing.

>>9330509
>do you know the history of roman libraries?

>"I'm going to build a great library, just like Alexandria..."

Holy shit, you really think your little mancave is going to preserve knowledge for posterity against the evil Trump regime? This is next level autism. Am I posting in a Ulillillia thread?

>>9330534
>my mancave
again, I'm not op

if someone posted a collection of old books I'd be lurking the thread, but i lurk many lit threads I'm sure you shitpost in a similar amount

>preserve knowledge against a regime
you think a library protects knowledge from institutional power? do you not understand mongol/barbarian tactics? so, in your desperation/thirst to tilt at a strawman ( i am op ) you are literally making shit up, and then screaming about messiah complex

kewl story, could you be more afraid of mexicans?

Hoarding like this is a mental illness and I'm surprised that you haven't been legally restrained by now.

>>9329664

american jurisprudence I

>>9330448
>>9330456
>>9330483
>>9330484

see

>>9330439

>>9330566
You type in exactly the same style as OP; have exactly the same opinions; posts with the Trip on come at exactly the time it takes for the post timer to run out.

Was ever a samefag more obvious?

>>9330572

american jurisprudence II

>>9330585

american jurisprudence III

>...a-and this is our son's room

>>9330588

political science proper I

I guess the hostility ITT was unavoidable, but it still baffles me how good intentions are met with such scorn. People really are stuck within their own narrative.

>>9330601

political science proper II

>>9330605
>Ah, woe is me, the sheeple truly are ignorant.

>>9330608

american experience I

>>9330605

all one can do is push forward. i like you.

>>9330582
>trip
>post-timer
you may be a paranoid delusional friend, but i could just guess that by your schizoid shitposting

>>9330617

american experience II

>>9330617
Good work OP im waiting on poetry and literature though
Do you speak any foreign languages or just english

>>9330623

american experience III

>>9327692
thanks, OP. But can I ask, how the hell did you afford all of this?

Say any interesting books about ancient war around?

>>9330629
Pimping his anus to his Cornell professors.

>>9330628

american experience IV

>>9330625

english is my home language; i went to catholic high school/am catholic, so i know latin; i've also lived in france (nearly fluent) and germany (very minor working knowledge). beyond that, nada. what about you?

Start over and donate it all to an actual library you mentally ill pseud

>>9327704
Well, Understanding Mysticism by Richard Woods seems interesting. Can you give us a sample?

>>9330654

american experience V

>>9330634

yessir--see my ancients sections and war/strategy sections above.

>>9330629

i worked in finance before graduate school.

>>9330669

american experience VI

>>9330667

will do. i plan on collecting all the requests and scanning them in over the next week. will produce threads specifically for the dropbox files. any other esoteric lit you want?

>>9330657
this

If any anon in this thread was friends with you and not just curious to see books they'd be having the Conversation with you.

>>9330683

american experience VII

>>9330669
Thank you anon, love studying war.

>>9330688
>American Experience VII
Jesus, just go outside and speak to some people if you want to know about the American Experience.

Books weren't made for things this autistic.

>>9327692
you beautiful bastard. I hope all your dreams come true.

>>9330688

american experience VIII

>>9330685

clearly im doing this for a different population than those consumed with unreasonable and persistent anger. while i recognize that it is that population who would benefit the most from knowledge, what can i say? the problem is socratic: how do you convince those who are unwilling to listen? you dont--you remake the world around them.

>>9330709

american experience IX

>>9330716

american experience X

>>9330729

american experience XI

>>9330743

american experience XII

>>9330709
The clearest way to benefit the public is to give this to a library.

This is so obviously a rationalisation for your hoarding mental illness. I'd like to rob a few from you; your books would then be in the hands of someone who actually reads.

>>9330747

american experience XIII


will post european history and lit/poetry later

>>9330669
damn, I should work in finance

>>9330748

you're right, i have a problem, you're better than me, etc. etc.

now, is there anything i can actually scan in for you? instead of robbing me, you do realize i'm willing to give to you freely...

do you have any poetry collections op?
thanks

>>9330791
o...just...saw your other comment...

anyway

as if kant, herman melville, or whoever else every says they read here wouldn't have had a "problem" sized personal library

lol

Has chomsky read more than every page in this room?

>>9329788
i love u dude

>>9327692
What books would you recommend for someone who has never read political theory and would like to get into it?

any recommended books on the power elite?

im fascinated by eisenhowers warning and how its manifested itself today

>>9329788
nice

>>9330810
chomsky has never read anything

>>9330926
>chomskylibrary.jpeg

>>9330801

Well, yeah, they'd have large libraries, but they are accumulated over time with an actual purpose and desire to learn the material. This library has none of that, it's so widely spread that it seems OP has no interests of his own at all, and is just consuming books to say he consumed them. Thus the dilettante criticism. You are what is wrong with academia, especially the humanities

>>9327692

How many of those books have you actually read? Not even hating, just wondering. Great library.

>>9331047
no way
the problem with humanities is they aren't applicable to, nor do they incorporate, other disciplines

>>9331112

But-but what about analytic philosophy and mathematics? Or archaeology and chemistry? Or linguistics and computer science? Or religion and neuroscience? Or geography and computer science/physics? Or politics and computer science? Or anthropology and biology?

You're an idiot.

>>9331047
Why are you so opinionated against someone who collects books instead of like...porn or flac music or whatever else? And he isn't a dilettante. He made it extremely clear he hasn't studied even a fraction of them.

This is a fucking lit board after all so why not share photos (and scans) of your obese library

>>9331169
>stem carries useful advancements in humanities
cross teams built from humanities departments are just so useful!

you cherry picking the smallest minority from the academia is meaningful discussion (almost every sci paper has 2-3 cross team techn. experts from other fields/disciplines)

>>9331169
>>9331228
again, the reason the humanities is a shithole is bastions of insane rhetoric are allowed to flourish because no one hears about them because there's so little crosstalk ( or they just aren't widely applicable to other disciplines in the first place )

>>9331228
>>9331241

You're pushing some dumb myopic rhetoric right here. Dumb fucks exist within humanities and science departments. That doesn't necessarily translate to ALL humanities departments or ALL science departments existing in this state. You're blinded by your bias dudes. Sorry to say you can't have an adult conversation about this shit because you're resorting to mud slinging.

Post any Fulke Greville or William Dunbar you have breh

>>9330683
Well, not esoteric at all (maybe it is for some), but I'm having a hard time finding this one. I really run out of resources. Thanks OP.

>>9330763

assorted theory

>>9331653

assorted theory

>>9331659

assorted theory

>>9331663

assorted theory

>>9331668

assorted theory

>>9331671

assorted theory

>>9330826

nice! glad you're interested--i promise if you pursue it, you won't be disappointed.how new are you to theory? do you have any inherent interests in terms of politics? i can recommend more detailed/custom lists with some more info

>>9331679

assorted theory

>>9331683

assorted theory

>>9331688

assorted theory

OP how much of this did you get on the cheap/used and how much dd you pay full price for?

image limit reached. continuing thread here:
>>9331714

>>9331706

good question: it's a total mix. i have access to some world-class used bookstores in my native city (washington, DC)--so i take a lot of advantage of that, but of course if there is a volume that i need/want more immediately, then i just go straight amazon.

>>9330136
Are you fucking retarded, Trump authorized 21 billion to NASA for next FY, not an additional 20 on top of what they already had. Fucking poltards.

>>9327692
OP, do you have a specialized book scanner? I just don't see how you can scan these at a reasonable rate. Have you chained a few drifters to your scanner? Perhaps you remove the spines and scan the pages with a document feeder?

>>9331679
I took a political philosophy course in undergrad where we read Hobbes and Locke. Other than that I'm completely new. as far as interests go I would like to learn more about the American political system

OP, do you happen to have anything on film?

>>9328045
have u checked libgen.io? they usually have what i need

>>9327692
What are your favorite books that you would recommend to a pleb? Also, what is your opinion on Jung and his attempt to create a new system of religious meaning and utterly failing?

either thats a college library or you collected the top 10 of each amazon nonfiction category

>>9327692
Do you hang out in temple of Zeus?

>TWENTY FUCKING SEVENTEEN
>STILL
>STILL NOT USING AN E-READER
SERIOUSLY ILL GET YOU A PAPERWHITE ON EBAY FOR 30 BUCKS, LOAD IT WITH PIRATED COPIES OF EVERY BOOK IN YOUR FUCKING LIBRARY AND AND MAIL IT TO YOUR ASS JUST STOP WASTING RESOURCES AND SPACE AND TIME AND MONEY YOU FUCKING PSEUD.

>>9333210
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Doing god's work friend.

(I'm an undergrad at Cornell doing English/Linguistics/CompSci. Good to know there are actual litizens floating around here)

>>9333189
>>9327692

Well shit I guess that makes three actually

>>9333210
I'll promise to never again buy a paperback and be wasteful if you actually buy me a paperwhite.

>>9329788
have a beer on me

I don't understand this thread. Isn't this basically like a library?