/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10708893]

The pseud is strong in this one...

[Anonymous No.10708906]

>>10708893
Dudes not fooling anyone with the Leibniz..

[Anonymous No.10708917]

Kuntbot

[Anonymous No.10708919]

>>10708893
there's a strong chance he isn't reading any of that shit and is doing this solely for social validation, but just in case he is actually reading that stuff: i wish him well. we should encourage people to try and expand their horizons.

[Anonymous No.10708935]

>>10708919
We're talking about this guy here, ffs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po

[Anonymous No.10708944]

>>10708935
that's fucking hysterical. i really like this guy now.

[Anonymous No.10709059]

>>10708935
Holy /lit/

[Anonymous No.10709212]

>>10708893
>jumping around sporadically from different philosophical works, time periods and schools of thought
That's how you know he's a pseud who doesn't care about the proper study of philosophy

[Anonymous No.10709228]

>>10708935
>German idealism
>all the Amerimutts thinks he's talking about National Socialism

[Anonymous No.10709261]

>>10708935
oh freaking God

this is golden

[Anonymous No.10709284]

BURN THE BOOKS

[Anonymous No.10709302]

>>10708893
He is doing ironically

[Anonymous No.10709324]

>>10708935
he looks like an old lady

[Anonymous No.10709331]

based kantbot working the peterson worshipping soylets of /lit/

[Anonymous No.10709338]

>>10709324
Ha, he looks like my Mom's fat lesbian friend!

[Anonymous No.10709379]

>>10708893
Deleuze and co. were mere relayers of CIA LSD Cybernetics, don't be fooled by the tired trappings of old Europe. These ideas owe much more to the times than it is commonly accepted. Gregory Bateson was a huge influence on Deleuze and Guattari and also on Stewart Brand, cyberculture and what later became silicon valley. Despite the countercultural affinities, many of these people, scientists, communalists, acid freak were basically networking with the military industrial complex. Their core ideas originate with cold war think tanks. The whole earth catalog is pretty 'rhizomatic', dontcha think?

https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Brand_Stewart_Whole_Earth_Catalog_Fall_1968.pdf

[Anonymous No.10710317]

>>10708935
i respect this man as an intellectual more than anyone i've interacted with over the internet in my years

[Anonymous No.10710318]

>>10708935
this would be embarrassing for me, but props for speaking his mind in front of all those people. I don't know wtf he was talking about lol.

[Anonymous No.10710321]

>>10709228
That's the joke

[Anonymous No.10710348]

>>10708935
>all these fucking plebbitors who don't know kantbot2k

[Anonymous No.10710352]

>>10710348
Kantbot's pathetic desire to be an e-celeb is pretty Reddit, man

[Anonymous No.10710375]

>>10710352
Can you not laugh at a clown?

[Anonymous No.10710405]

kantbot is a gem

[Anonymous No.10710430]

>>10710321
prussian autocracy isn't significantly more desirable than national socialism

[Anonymous No.10710436]

>>10708935
supreme kek

[Anonymous No.10710438]

>>10708935
Based desu.

[Anonymous No.10710453]

>>10708893
I hate Leibniz

[Anonymous No.10710483]

>>10708893
yeah i saw this, pretty cringe. someone circulated the description for his top-tier patreon reward and he used the word "esoteric" twice in it.

he makes funny posts sometimes though and i dont begrudge liking the ones that show up on my tl via retweet.

>>10710352
also this

[Anonymous No.10710499]

>>10710453
t. Voltaire

[Anonymous No.10710648]

>>10708893
Of course he's a pseud but his tweets are still fucking hilarious.

[Anonymous No.10710662]

This is his GOAT take

[Anonymous No.10710674]

Why people follow this guy is beyond me. It's clear he doesn't read the books he posts, or reads/knows philosophy. I pressed him on Aristotelian and Humean induction in relation to Kantian metaphysics one time and he blocked me. Fuck that fat fuck.

[Anonymous No.10710679]

>>10710674
yeah but to be fair you were probably being an annoying sperg

[Anonymous No.10710684]

>>10710674
>I pressed him on Aristotelian and Humean induction in relation to Kantian metaphysics one time and he blocked me

I would've blocked you too.

[Anonymous No.10710968]

>>10710674
Classic lit response "No one reads books but me!!"

[Anonymous No.10711434]

>>10708935
I LOVE this man

[Anonymous No.10711476]

>>10710674
>I pressed him on Aristotelian and Humean induction in relation to Kantian metaphysics one time
You couldn't have said "I'm a pseud" better.

[Anonymous No.10711544]

>>10710662
It's funny how all boards seem to be united by >tfw no gf
The anime boards try to replace a gf with a waifu, ponyfags have their tulpas, /fit/ tries to lift the feels away but can't, see
>>>/fit/44777111
Half the threads on /pol/ are about blacks mating with their white women, /v/ has Friday night threads to emphasize the fact that they have no gf's to go out with, etc.

[Anonymous No.10711550]

>>10708893
The sad thing is, most of you people are probably cringing at his actual book choices, but I'm cringing a level higher. At the simple fact this cunt is posting an image of the books obscure shit he's reading. It's so transparent.

[Anonymous No.10711554]

>>10708893
I hope I'll be able to meet him one day so I can snap his fat neck.

[Anonymous No.10711802]

When are we going to have a major /lit/ figure that isn't a cringe-y retard?

[Anonymous No.10711820]

>>10709338
How good of a friend is she anon? ;)

[Anonymous No.10711846]

>>10708935
4-D Chess

[Anonymous No.10711971]

>>10708935
>how old are you?
>I'm eternal
Every fucking time

[Anonymous No.10711981]

>>10708935
/our guy/ spreading the truth to the plebs

[Anonymous No.10711982]

>>10708944
>>10709059
>>10709228
>>10709261
>>10709324
>>10710317
>>10710318
>>10710348
>>10710436
>>10710438
>>10711434
>>10711846

Stop samefagging kantbot

[Anonymous No.10711985]

>>10711982
I think he's a pseud and a sperg but the video was funny, it would've been cringy without the editing I'm sure

[Anonymous No.10711996]

>>10708935
Red-Pill curious Jewess qt wanted that Kantbot dialectic

[Anonymous No.10711999]

>>10711985
Nah I seen it the first time, it was always funny
Dorks need to get a sense of humor

[Anonymous No.10712575]

>>10710318
He's trolling you fucktard

[Anonymous No.10712585]

>>10709379
Wew lad

[Anonymous No.10712602]

>>10708935
This level of BASED autism

[Anonymous No.10712612]

Just as a rule of thumb, you should be skeptical of anyone who feels compelled to show everyone on the internet that they read. Although I quite like Kantbot so I'll let it slide just this once.

[Anonymous No.10712661]

>>10712612
>you should be skeptical of anyone who feels compelled to show everyone on the internet that they read

Why? It's entirely possible one of his followers doesn't know a particular book he's picturing. These are usually just blanket recommendations to people. Things are changing anon. People communicate mostly via social media now. If you had a bulletin board that could be seen by 50 people at any given time, why wouldn't you post things you want others to enjoy?

Sounds like you just don't like one particular person who does this. Or you feel you're special for reading, and you belong in a super sekret klub!

You're more autistic than he, to be frank.

[Anonymous No.10712666]

>>10712612
>Although I quite like Kantbot
kys

[Anonymous No.10712667]

>>10712612
I post books I read in Instagram all the time. I'm also published, and most likely smarter than you.
It attracts the literary cuties who are also into lowkey Baphomet worship, and will let you do extremely nasty butt things with them. You just sound like a bitter fag lmao

[Anonymous No.10712700]

Why is he reading English versions?

[Anonymous No.10712716]

>>10708935
How can he be this insane yet so compelling at the same time? I know he's spouting nonsense, but fuck it. I'm sold. Donald Trump will complete the system of german idealism!

[Anonymous No.10712993]

Fuck all you niggers, do you fags even lift? I've been following kantbot since 2015.

[Anonymous No.10713010]

>>10711544
I wonder if legalizing prostitution would have prevented all of this.

[Anonymous No.10713053]

>>10712993
thats not something to be proud of

[Anonymous No.10713243]

>>10712716
It's his happiness. It looks so sincere and pure that I want to be a part of it.

[Anonymous No.10714378]

>>10708935
Has he ever explained what he meant with Trump completing the system of German idealism?

[Anonymous No.10714807]

>>10714378
but does he need to?

[Anonymous No.10714832]

>>10709212
Leibniz and Descartes were near contemporaries, very interested in the burgeoning natural sciences and the problems it posed, and were mathematical innovators

[Anonymous No.10714843]

>>10709379
i mean, really you could just read inherent vice and find pynchon already came to a similar insight.

[Anonymous No.10714891]

>>10714378
its a joke...

[Anonymous No.10715006]

>>10714378
Only brainlets need an explanation.

[Anonymous No.10715052]

>>10710674
You are like on of those guys who keep asking nerdy girls comic book questions so they can prove they are real geeks.

[Anonymous No.10715056]

>>10713010
fuck off liberal

[Anonymous No.10715074]

>>10711996
She's so cute and looks so mesmerized by Kantbot that I can't help it but feel a bit envious of that fat bastard.

[Anonymous No.10715080]

>>10715052
damn this is fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.10715086]

>>10708935
Holy shit, the dude is so alpha.
Worst is seeing all the ameritards thinking german idealism is nazism, what brainlets

[Anonymous No.10715093]

>>10708893
Advice on Beginning a Serious Study of Literature

Here is a post I wrote a while ago you might find interesting.

First of all, you have to read for yourself and your own interests. The only thing “great books” have in common is that they’re all great, but in terms of the worldviews and ideas they articulate, they’re incredibly diverse, reading according to a list of books other people tell you are good is a bad way to go about it, you need to develop taste and figure out what you believe is good. Taste is more than subjective though, it’s a sense for the beautiful, and you have to actively develop that sense.

No one told me what to read, I didn’t learn about any of this stuff through college or graduate school. The type of literature I talk the most about, the German literature of the 1770s-1810s, isn’t really even really taught at American colleges, it’s very poorly understood in the English speaking world and I’ve had to research it and figure it all out largely for myself.

I read and loved Goethe’s mature novels, the “Wilhelm Meister” novels and “Elective Affinities”, and one day in a used book store I found a copy of “Goethe and the Novel” by Eric Blackall and I read that, and that book extensively reconstructed Goethe’s novel reading habits throughout his life, what works were his favorites, what he had said about different novels etc. And I wanted to understand his books better so I started reading some of the Augustan English novels he seemed to talk about the most, like Goldsmith’s “The Vicar of Wakefield”.

Human knowledge is unbelievably self-reflexive, you have to develop the ability to be critical about your own knowledge if you want to develop it. You have to objectify what you know and turn it into a picture in your imagination, and when you’re able to do that you can judge that picture as if it were a painting you were in the process of creating, and figure out what you need to do still to fill in all the remaining gaps. Then when you’ve figured out that if you want to know more about, say Augustan era British literature, you can develop a reading list for yourself to teach yourself what you think you need to know.

Off the top of your head can you tell me who Horace is for example? What works he wrote and what time period he lived in? I kept seeing his name come up in works like Tom Jones but I didn’t really have much idea who he was. Turns out the “Augustan” era is called the “Augustan” era because of the influence of Golden Age Latin writers from the time of Augustus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Livy etc. And so I decided I should familiarize myself with those writers, and then I found out that Dryden had done very influential translations of Virgil and so I read his Aeneid.


https://autisticmercury.com/2014/05/04/no-25/

https://autisticmercury.com/2017/02/25/kantbots-critical-forests/

[Anonymous No.10715095]

>>10709212
see

>>10715093
You really have to put in a concerted effort over the course of years, and you have to let your own interests develop themselves. It is daunting, and it only becomes more daunting as time goes on. I’ve come to feel stupider and stupider the more I’ve read because I’ve realized just how much I actually don’t know.

Don’t expect instant results, proceed slowly, take it one book at a time. The more you read the more it all begins to fit together in your head. Part of it is just being humble about your own knowledge and your abilities and not trying to run before you can walk. I had initially ignored Kantian philosophy and at first I didn’t really think it was important to understanding Goethe’s literary works, but then I read Boyle’s “Goethe: The Poet and the Age” (Volume two specifically) and realized that I needed to take it more seriously. I was humble about it though, I knew the CPR would be way over my head and that I needed to start smaller and work my way up. So I read some secondary scholarship like Beiser’s “The Fate of Reason”, and Manfred Kuehn’s biography of Kant. From there I sat down with a much more manageable work, “The Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics”, and I sat down with a legal pad and I went through section by section writing the argument of each one out on paper in my own words. The key was I was humble, I broke down what I wanted to learn into smaller bites and I followed through with a course of study I created for myself.

For me there was a very noticeable, profound change in my entire way of thinking after about three or so years of reading, I just hit this sort of critical mass of knowledge where I suddenly exploded into intellectual self-awareness in a way that humiliated me, where it just hit me that what had passed for intelligent thought and reading comprehension when I was in college was only a shadow of the real thing.

I can’t really tell you what you should read, it depends. I’d say pace yourself, begin with shorter and simpler works. The Ancient Greek Romances like “Daphnis and Chloe” or the “Aethiopian Romance” are great. I don’t really know specifically what you’re interested in or what you hope to learn about, do you want to study Kantian-era German literature like Goethe and Schiller? Elizabethan poetry like Shakespeare and Ben Jonson? French Neo-Classicism like Racine and Corneille? Renaissance Italian literature like Dante and Petrarch and Boccaccio? Augustan era literature like Pope and Johnson?

I will say you should teach yourself to read another language based on what period and nation you’re most interested in, and that you should read a lot of secondary-scholarship and history and biography. But beyond that, the world is sort of your oyster so to speak.

[Anonymous No.10715099]

>>10715095
hi KB how is everything?

[Anonymous No.10715121]

>>10709228
>these plumbers at a rally just don’t get it!
To be fair, they’ve already contributed more than you brainlet pseuds ever could

[Anonymous No.10715130]

I very often get people in my messages asking me to recommend them books, or suggest reading lists, but I like to think that I’m a thoughtful person, and it can be difficult when you put such constraints on yourself to give everything you try to do the attention it deserves. Reading is personal, and someone’s taste can be hard to judge without knowing them at all. Meanwhile, I’m usually talking about or recommending books on my timeline frequently enough that I sometimes take for granted that everyone is familiar with some of the books I enjoy. For the friends I’ve made here, and known for a long time, my favorite books are familiar staples of my content, and even I get tired of recommending them after a while, however much I really would like it if everyone read them.

Further complicating things is that book recommendations, in my experience, rarely stick, and everyone already has so much they want to read to begin with, they rarely make it past the first few books of Wilhelm Meister before moving on to something else. I certainly don’t fault them, it’s one of the reasons that not just reading, but scholarship, is such an enjoyable past-time, for we are, after all, the beneficiaries of the erudition of millennia and there’s never any shortage of good books to read.

Constructing a good reading list is therefore no mean feat. First of all there is the question of subject matter. What sort of literature do you, the list creator, want to highlight? The more specialized your focus the more efficiently you can exhaust all the possible introductory avenues, but by being too narrow in your selections you run the risk of excluding potential users who simply don’t share your particular hobby horse. Furthermore, how do you structure your list? As a prescribed syllabus, moving from one work to another programmatically in order to outline a specific point? Or do you go the route of providing a menu from which the curious reader is permitted to select? It can be difficult to match all the elements to one another, but at some point choices have to be made if you’re to make any progress at all in this monumental labor you have (happily) burdened yourself with.

[Anonymous No.10715131]

>>10715130
This reading list will then serve as a companion to my #NovelMindset article, as, though this topic might not arouse everyone’s interest the way it does mine, the history and theory of the novel remains central to my reading, and, as this is my list, I believe it should be reflective of what motivates me. I encourage everyone to create similar lists for themselves, as creating a reading list is an opportunity to survey the terrain you have conquered in your studies, and to judge the true extent of our own little empire of taste. Not only do you create a list of books, but it becomes a novelistic exercise in self-creation unto itself.

In addition, the books I mean to recommend utilize every manner of style and technique conceivable, and besides simply being entertaining, they offer the aspiring content creator an endless arsenal of conceits from which to draw when building the literature of tomorrow. Suffice it to say there is much to recommend the reading of novels to us, and this list, I hope, will provide some interesting and enjoyable selections for your consideration.

When one is first entering into a domain of knowledge unfamiliar to them, I believe the best approach is to expose oneself to as much material as possible. Rather than recommend long, intimidating, and difficult novels like Tristram Shandy or Gargantua and Pantagruel, what follows is a serving of more manageable reads. Some of the selections I have made can be read in a sitting or two without much difficulty. They represent a wide cross section and will provide a broad basis for the formation of critical judgment later on. This is not to mention what should obviously be the main appeal though, that they are all enjoyable works of literature in their own right, full of humor and humanity enough to sustain us in these dark and difficult times.

[Anonymous No.10715142]

>>10715131
1. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot

2. The Exemplary Novels by Cervantes

3. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus

4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

6. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

7. Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis

This should, I believe, provide you with sufficient diversion for now. As I created the list it a natural order suggested itself to me, but if any of the books I’ve described appeal to you, there are no rules to how or when they should be read. We sometimes hear of the decline of the novel, as if it is a symptom of something else going on with our culture, but I believe the causation may be in fact reversed. As later novels of the 20th century struggle to integrate their subjective-confessional components by means of an overarching architecture of narrative mitigation, they not only degrade the art form but degrade our very ability to form a coherent society. What sort of future the novel has I can’t say I know, but no matter the direction that literature takes in the future, the study of the novel will remain fundamental to understanding the emergence and functioning of our modern social consciousness.

If you would like to extend this list a bit, I would also recommend the following works:

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson

The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette

The Tales of Hoffmann

An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

Hopefully this will satisfy those in search of book recommendations for a while, and if not, there are always more books to be had, so fret not friends.

[Anonymous No.10715145]

>>10715095
Renaissance Italian literature like Dante and Petrarch and Boccaccio?

[Anonymous No.10715153]

>>10708935

[Anonymous No.10715154]

>>10715093
Fuck off Kantbot you fat dumb pseud.

[Anonymous No.10715156]

>>10715145
What is your question?

>>10715154
Kant's not a pseud, he's an exposer of pseuds. The guy is the genuine intellectual article tbhfam.

[Anonymous No.10715160]

>>10715154
>>10715156
You always know people are lying when they say they’ve read Hegel because Hegel was a fictional character from a contemporary novel written by Schelling about a philosopher driven mad by spector of lovecraftian entity called Geist. All Hegel’s philosophy is a meta-textual prank

[Anonymous No.10715170]

>>10715156
>Kant's not a pseud
He isn't on his way to gnosis if he's still drinking from the Descartes well. That much is certain. But he isn't nearly as dumb as anon are trying to claim. In fact he's far smarter than the average fare on /lit/; he just lacks an understanding of the spirit world.

[Anonymous No.10715176]

>>10715156
>Kant's not a pseud, he's an exposer of pseuds. The guy is the genuine intellectual article tbhfam.
Go away KB, you aren't fooling anyone.

[Anonymous No.10715180]

>>10715170
Popular Culture is really an elaborate hunting decoy developed by Predator type aliens who employ environmental toxins and soul crushingly designed workplace preserves as their weapon of choice. You life is a virtual hunting simulator and torture chamber. Your spirit is a trophy.

[Anonymous No.10715198]

>>10715176
“You’re a pseud, you’re a pseud, you’re a pseud, none of you are free of pseudo intellectualism,” CyberSocrates420 replied to the e-sophists on twitter dot com

[Anonymous No.10715207]

>>10715180
KB make some fucking storylines for fuck’s sake man, the TL is desolate the twatter is dying. water your garden

[Anonymous No.10715213]

>>10715198
Why are you so butthurt KB?

[Anonymous No.10715219]

>>10715207
Charles Manson was the only person mentally strong enough to resist hypnotizing effect of terrible Beatles music, break free, resist, seek to liberate others. He tried freeing Dennis Wilson but failed. Years later Wilson would drown himself after realizing Manson was right.

>this is why aliens want nothing to do with us.

Because the beatles' music is a front for a worldwide psychic sterilization and genocide? Yes, the aliens are well aware our planet has been enslaved. Very possible Manson didnt die but was teleported by them to lead the resistance in the hyper realm against ghost of John Lennon

[Anonymous No.10715226]

>>10708935
Reddit

[Anonymous No.10715242]

>>10715170
>But he isn't nearly as dumb as anon are trying to claim. In fact he's far smarter than the average fare on /lit/
Being the king of pseuds doesn't make you any less of a pseud just like being 5'9" doesn't make you any less of a manlet.

[Anonymous No.10715249]

>>10715219
>>10715207
Some of my favourites:

>‘Science’ is a literary hoax. The ‘scientific method’ was invented by Shakespeare and published under the pseudonym ‘Francis Bacon,’ who never actually existed.

>Eurasianist ideologist Aleksandr Dugin is actually an ancient djinn which Putin unlocked from a cursed heliotrope he uncovered during the KGB invasion of Afghanistan

>“Shit Hole” comes from Shetholê, an ancient Latin term used to designate outlying provincial areas, what Trump is REALLY saying is these areas are rightfully ruled by Rome and that he wouldnt dare presume to interfere with the jurisdiction of any possible successor states. Noble

>You: Salient observations, genuine insights, no irony, reference Heidegger or whatever
>3 Retweets 5 Likes
>Me, (good): Kantbot does a storyline where he’s like a beat poet or something
>1,000 Retweets 10,000 Likes
>eh, jealous cucks?

>Buying crypto isnt a way to make money, its a test devised by strong AI from the future who forces the price down in order to see who’s loyal and who’s not. Selling your coins is a sin against the machine god, do so at your own peril

>Smart doorknobs will sample cells when turned and incubate embryonic clones of users within, the development of which may be monitored via an app. Just transfer it the anti-aging serum machine dock when sufficently gestated and pop in a new knob (sold in convenient 5 pack)

Also his review of the new Star Wars movie was great for trolling people on /tv/

[Anonymous No.10715257]

>>10715180
worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave

[Anonymous No.10715268]

I used to feel about pop culture the way I do now about literature, I was always hungry for explanations and analysis about Star Wars etc. I used to feel about pop culture the way I do now about literature, I was always hungry for explanations and analysis about Star Wars etc. I read fan boards and watched Empire of Dreams, looking for the explanation of why these things were so great, but my curiosity remained.

After a while I began to realize that there were only a set number of production anecdotes to repeat again and again. Watch any nerdtube critic delve into Star Wars kino theory, its always the same script, Kurosawa, Flash Gordon, Joseph Cambell, the end. I picked up books about my favorite pop culture bits but always I came away feeling empty, seeing the same anecdotes in every one. Eventually I began to realize: there just wasn't that much to say, these works turned out to be exhaustible.

If you've ever felt that way, just know, there are artworks without a bottom, that have merited the study of millennia. What is the force, what do Jedis believe, what is the morality of Star Wars. Few even bother to seriously discuss these things. Empty.

Its not that artworks are filled up with meaning by their creators, and some put more in than others. Great art generates its own meaning. Its for this reason they can be described as 'inexhaustible,' they teach rules for creating meaning which we apply to connect them to things. Each era comes to a work of art with its own conceptual preoccupations, ones not necessarily shared by the creators of those things. Works of art endure who can teach us rules for thinking about whatever concepts we bring to it through the system of the book. This process becomes a microcosm for the act of rational existence, the book becomes like nature, a simulation of infinite depth. In this way great art not only entertains or moves, it trains our consciousness to organize itself with respect to the world.

The nerd moves from one theatrical release to the next, always searching for his next nostalgia high, studios gladly ramp up production. If he pauses for a moment, to reflect, what the things he thinks he loves even mean, he is confronted only with an ad for another sequel.

[Anonymous No.10715290]

>>10709212
Kantbot's advice:

If you want to take up serious reading dont treat your reading list like buffet of literary history to be sampled, pick one topic to master. Time is precious, reading Mishima, then Carlyle, then Art of War, there's no momentum there, choices must build geometrically. A reading list of 10 classics is worse than one of 10 books about same classic. Doing latter will produce lasting gains, former wont. Your reading knowledge and critical capacity must be trained and disciplined in a structured manner to build up that grey matter. Books arent checkboxes to be ticked on your erudition application, they are not so easy to exhaust, require many viewpoints to discern truly. I wouldn't expect to get a good handle on a book until studyin the author, the era, the genre, and the criticism. These perspectives interlock to create understanding, just read 1 thing in passing and it wont grow roots in your mind, you need to compost.

[Anonymous No.10715293]

>>10715242
I still think he's a very smart man. In fact I know he is. But he's the sort to regard spiritual matters through a strictly intellectual remove and won't go near the spirit world in any way that'd make these matters too "real", for want of a better phrase. He needs to consider moving toward a more daring praxis as the years go on. Whatever form that may happen to take for him, as long as it isn't intellectual alone. But that is just this anon's opinion.

[Another male No.10715296]

>>10715290
He isn't really gaining any knowledge if it comes only after studying critiques. This is shill advice.

[Anonymous No.10715301]

>>10715160
v gud post in my humble estimation

[Anonymous No.10715316]

>>10715296
It is if he's disagreeing with the critiques that argue against each other. When you read a critique you often see the author's original work being taken out of context. You have to read closely to see where that person is coming from.

[Another male No.10715331]

>>10715316
Evidence #1: Notice how he doesn't mention taking notes or forming his own position.

[Anonymous No.10715369]

>>10715331
yes he did. See:

>>10715095
>I had initially ignored Kantian philosophy and at first I didn’t really think it was important to understanding Goethe’s literary works, but then I read Boyle’s “Goethe: The Poet and the Age” (Volume two specifically) and realized that I needed to take it more seriously. I was humble about it though, I knew the CPR would be way over my head and that I needed to start smaller and work my way up. So I read some secondary scholarship like Beiser’s “The Fate of Reason”, and Manfred Kuehn’s biography of Kant. From there I sat down with a much more manageable work, “The Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics”, and I sat down with a legal pad and I went through section by section writing the argument of each one out on paper in my own words. The key was I was humble, I broke down what I wanted to learn into smaller bites and I followed through with a course of study I created for myself.
>and I sat down with a legal pad and I went through section by section writing the argument of each one out on paper in my own words. The key was I was humble, I broke down what I wanted to learn into smaller bites and I followed through with a course of study I created for myself.

How would he have known Kant was important to understanding Goethe unless he'd read that biography of Goethe?

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>>10712667
8.2/10

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>>10715074
she's mesmerized because she's a vapid roastie laughing at what she believes is a crazy person. she has no morals. forget her anon.

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>>10715290
This is excellent advice desu. Wish I could follow it.

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>/lit/
>roasting anyone

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>>10715489
Good enough. Why cuties don't laugh at me too,bros?

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>>10716003
/lit/ is like an artificial intelligence struggling to come to terms with its surroundings

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>>10716010
It's more artificial without the intelligence

[Anonymous No.10716037]

>>10716010
In so far as /lit/'s intelligence is entirely artificial.

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>>10708906
No kidding. Leibniz was thoroughly btfo by Voltaire.

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>>10710674
Because his hot takes are really witty and clever.

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>>10716038
No he wasn't. Voltaire was a fucking hack.

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>>10708906
>>10716038
>>10716064
so this is the power of /lit/ discourse
love it

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>>10716114
hi kantbot

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>>10716156
those books in the picture? he's making fun of people who read that shit

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>>10715145
brainlet thinks the renaissance started in the mid 1400's or whatever

"b-but when i play eu4...!"

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>>10715296
secondary lit is for morons

t. man with a 40 pound brain

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>>10716064
>t. German Idealist

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>>10708893
Anyone here actually read scholarly biographies like the Cambridge Leibniz? Would you say they are worth it?

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>>10708944
>there are people on /lit/ who don't know kantbot

[Anonymous No.10720992]

Why doesn’t this guy hit the gym? How can he be satisfied with his life if he’s not exercising regularly?

[Anonymous No.10721260]

newfag here, who is this person?

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>>10708935

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>>10721260

He is one of the leading lights of the esoteric right on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/KANTBOT20K

He's very good at doing online 'story-lines'.
From time to time, he will adopt a persona and develop a theme from this new vantage point. This is usually done for comedic effect, but incidental edification can also be expected.

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>>10721508
im retarded, but those seem to be standalone tweets?

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>>10721508
>leading lights of the esoteric right on Twitter.
just abandon the entire human species

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>>10721529

You will note that he has changed his named to "Professor Kantbot".

If you go back a bit, you'll see a number of tweets related to education.

Perhaps not the best example, but a taste of the semi-facetious thematic explorations he is known for.

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>>10708935
>DONALD TRUMP IS A KANTIAN
I'm dead.

[Anonymous No.10723293]

He was funny at first but tbqh his whole esoteric memeing schitck gets tiresome very quickly. He still has the occasional amusing tweet, but basically everything he's done that isn't ironic is embarrassingly awful.

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>>10713010
prostituieren is legal in most places

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>>10715056
m8 you need prostitutes to lose your virginity why wouldn't you want to do it legally and safely?

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>>10709212
>Not reading works from more recent history in order to better put into perspective the weaknesses of older thinkers that they might not have been aware of before reading them in order to save yourself the burden of 'purely historical' reading.

I mean why would you willingly go int reading Kant without any knowledge of say, Quine's criticisms?

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>>10723369

More contemporary readers often misread their predecessors. It would be wrong to start with an influential interpreter. It could very well encourage misreadings on your part.

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>>10717435
Dante is a late medieval transitional figure

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>>10708935
The thumbnail is perfect.

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>>10715121
>implying you can't read philosophy after work on and on the weekends

Thank God for my education.

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>>10716038
Fucking kill yourself, you are what is wrong with /lit/.

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>>10721273
schopenhauer hated the idealists lol also he was contemporary to hegel.