Books that could cause a existential crisis?

[Anonymous No.12598431]

I'm so bored of everything. Recommenced me books that could cause an existential crisis. I want to feel alive again.

[Anonymous No.12598445]

>>12598431
The Tartar Steppe

[Anonymous No.12598447]

>>12598431
Saint Augustines Confessions.

[Anonymous No.12598484]

Sickness Unto Death

[Anonymous No.12598519]

>>12598431

[Anonymous No.12598527]

>>12598431
The Naussea

[Anonymous No.12598534]

>>12598519
I don't know about existential crisis, really, but when reading Anti-Tech Revolution I was given great pause by the strength of his argument for pessimism about Man's ability to direct his own affairs. Kind of fucked me up.

[Anonymous No.12598670]

>>12598519
I'm afraiad to take the tedpill tbhfam.

[Anonymous No.12598681]

>>12598431

[Anonymous No.12598686]

try taking the managing your stress and life better so that you don't end up with clinical depression pill.

[Anonymous No.12598689]

>>12598681
oops wrong pic

[Anonymous No.12598780]

>>12598534
Genetic engineering is the only way.

[Anonymous No.12598799]

Society of the Spectacle.
Basically, nothing is human anymore, everything is commodity, we're choosing the garbage disposal machine at all times.

[Anonymous No.12598818]

Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.12598829]

Reading On Certainty by Wittgenstein hit me kind of hard. Pretty surreal to think that even skepticism is meaningless. I'm a brainlet just getting into philosophy tho, so take this recommendation with a grain of salt

[Anonymous No.12599182]

>>12598670
Man, if you are banking on humanity being able to save itself from being the mere victim of the brute force of historical and material determinism, his ideas are pretty disconcerting. I'm not going to say I've given up hope (I am too stupid for that) but his critique always sits in the back of my mind.

[Anonymous No.12599197]

>>12598780
As if whatever ways we reengineer life won't be the mere consequence of deterministic forces beyond our control...

[Anonymous No.12599220]

>>12598431
The jail section in The Stanger

[Anonymous No.12599327]

>>12598829
Read The Gospel in Brief by Tolstoy if u liked On Certainty

[Anonymous No.12599338]

>>12599197
vague

[Anonymous No.12599341]

>>12598431
The Bible

[Anonymous No.12599350]

waiting for Godot

[Anonymous No.12599358]

>>12598431
Why can't we get it to think? We can train it to do anything else: read, talk, sit, listen, type, analyse abstract signs according to precise and diverse models of logic. Why can't we get it to think?

[Anonymous No.12599369]

>>12599341
The decline of awareness of the existence and evil actions of demons has caused sin to flourish in modern society. The devil is real, and he is walking all over Earth.

[Anonymous No.12599374]

>>12599358
Are u referring to women or minorities?

[Anonymous No.12599775]

>>12598519
Who

[Anonymous No.12599807]

>>12598431
The Same Sea, Amos Oz

[Anonymous No.12599922]

>>12598431
Beyond good and evil -Niche
Archetypes of the collective unconscious -Jung

[Anonymous No.12600048]

>>12598447
Way too comfy to cause existential crisis.
>>12598484
This solves crises, it doesn't start them. Fear and Trembling is the crisis-starter.
>>12598519
Better, but it's more existential crisis at the societal level and not the individual.
>>12599220
Not at all, Meursault in jail is the same as OP, just bored. Plus, the dialogue with the priest is the weakest part of the book by far.
>>12599922
BG&E might do it if the death of God really gets through to OP, but it's too optimistic on the whole to really do psychological damage.
>>12598431
You want Fear and Trembling if you want to confront existential doubt, The Trial if you want an allegory of existential unease that's also quite funny, and The Dead if you're willing to loosen your existential criterion a bit and just feel alive again (for two pages or so, after which you die again, but much worse this time).

[Anonymous No.12600588]

>>12600048
>You want Fear and Trembling if you want to confront existential doubt, The Trial if you want an allegory of existential unease that's also quite funny, and The Dead if you're willing to loosen your existential criterion a bit and just feel alive again (for two pages or so, after which you die again, but much worse this time).
Thank you anon-sama.

[Anonymous No.12600657]

>>12598431
Pic related talks about the lies we tell ourselves in order to go through life without going crazy.
In some way it reminds me of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, except it's more dull and scientific, which makes it even more scary.

[Anonymous No.12601030]

>>12598431

[Anonymous No.12601071]

>>12599922
>Beyond good and evil
Makes sense
>Archetypes of the collective unconscious
That's the opposite of an existential crisis

Anyways read anything by Camus.

[Anonymous No.12601089]

I’m sick of these whining fags and women talking about their “existential crises,” the smug self-love built into this labeling of themselves as a true deep thinker and perceiver of life, “I’m going through an existential crises,” you say with a touch of irony, posting to your little internet buddies so that you can show the fucking world how goddamn deep your suffering is. Everyone is going through an “existential crises.” You are not deeper than anyone else; your suffering is not more important than anyone else’s. Stop trying to poetically reframe your lack of happiness and grow the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.12601092]

>>12601089
Shut up, cunt. Nobody gives a shit about your whinging. Go to hell.

[Anonymous No.12601096]

>>12601089
>waaaaah asking for social validation is baaaaaaad
Let people have their little fun, anon.

[Anonymous No.12601133]

>>12601089
struggling bloomer identified: good luck anon

[Anonymous No.12601811]

>>12601089
ur post is you poetically reframing your lack of happiness. a lot of anger for a guy with smol dick

[Anonymous No.12601856]

>>12601089
>meaning in life is for le intellectuals
fuck off. not everyone wants to be a fucking consuming robot. you don't need to have a billion IQ to want to be human.

[Anonymous No.12602497]

>>12601089
Oof

[Anonymous No.12602546]

>>12598431
The first part of Tolstoy's Confession

[Anonymous No.12602560]

>>12598431
Start watching Jesse Lee peterson, it's amazin'. Reading is for BETAS

[Anonymous No.12602572]

>>12599369
>The devil is real, and he is walking all over Earth.
If only it were all so simple! But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

[Anonymous No.12602576]

>>12602572
calm down bro, get back to writing about gulags

[Anonymous No.12602589]

>>12598780
Ted talks about that too you know

[Anonymous No.12602597]

>>12602576
You speak as if I somehow changed a subject.
Don't you realize that each and every one of us is living in a Gulag, and this Gulag is the body we inhabit? And who is willing, or able to, escape from their own flesh?

[Anonymous No.12603185]

>>12602597
>dude what if our minds are trapped in our bodies like a prison or something? lmao

[Anonymous No.12603874]

Atomised (Engl. title "The Elementary Particles") by Michel Houellebecq. Just finished it in four days and it left me in an absolute existential daze.

[Anonymous No.12603899]

>>12603874
There's something so subtly apocalyptic about the detached tone towards the end of novel. It's really jarring considering how consistently funny the book is throughout, its such a strong left hook

[Anonymous No.12603914]

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[Anonymous No.12603925]

>>12598431
Threw me into a crisis

[Anonymous No.12603951]

>>12601089
>grow the fuck up
A little hypocritical coming from someone who's not mature enough to ignore mild annoyances on the internet.

[Anonymous No.12603961]

>>12601071
Camus gave me a short existential crisis before I realised hes mostly a pseud and doesnt provide any satisfying solutions

[Anonymous No.12604351]

>>12602597
Christ all mighty.

Nap time m'boy, you're thinking too hard

[Anonymous No.12605321]

>>12604351
no u

[Anonymous No.12605450]

Alive? Erickson's Rubicon Beach or Tours of the Black Clock.

[Anonymous No.12605651]

>>12603925
How? It's literally an instruction manual on how to not have a crisis.