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What are the 10 essential books anyone should read?

>> No.14419439

Just read the bible 10 times

>> No.14419480

Plato: Dialogues
Aristotle: Physics
Aristotle: Metaphysics
Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel: Science of Logic
Feuerbach: The Essence of Christianity
Marx & Engels: The German Ideology
Marx: Capital

>> No.14419484

>>14419480
ok now that is officially the cringiest thing ive ever read. you do know we have a thread for this kind of stuff?

>> No.14419822

Tell me about this pic

>> No.14419842

>>14419484
For the ten essential books anyone should read? Yeah, this is the thread.

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>>14419428
Ted Kaczynski "Industrial Society And Its Future"
Jacques Ellul "Technological Society"
Martin Heidegger "Question Concerning Technology"
Lewis Mumford "The Myth Of The Machine"
Neil Postman "Technopolis"
Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"
Murray Bookchin "The Ecology Of Freedom"
Jean Jacques Rousseau "Discourse on Inequality"
Karl Marx "Capital"
Emile Durkheim "Division Of Labour In Society"

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>why yes I’ve never read capital but it is essential and everybody should read it
great thread

>> No.14420050

>>14419988
>Jean Jacques Rousseau "Discourse on Inequality"
Just so everyone can see how wrong he was in that one and we can confidently disregard any ideology that came from that work, I assume.

>> No.14420075

>>14419988
You are a closet luddite. Don't work and focus on your art but unironically.

>> No.14420081

>>14420050
>Just so everyone can see how wrong he was in that one and we can confidently disregard any ideology that came from that work,

ye, that's why I put "Capital" on the list

>> No.14420452

>>14419988
Is Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man worth reading?

>> No.14420459

>>14420452
absolutely, McLuhan was based. consider suplementing this with Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"

>> No.14420562

A Farewell to Arms
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas
The Aeneid
Moby Dick
Meditations
The Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Beyond Good And Evil
The Lord Of The Rings


They should be read in that order.

>> No.14420579

I rather have people read different things

>> No.14420589

Plato

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>>14419428
There are no essential books. Just read what you want. Most of the people who read books don't even understand them.

>> No.14420638

>>14419480
>>14419988
The two opposite sides of the nu-/lit/ spectrum. Sadly, literature discussion here is dead and mods won't delete the off topic posting of philosophy and politics.

>> No.14420692

My diary desu

>> No.14420821

>>14420562
Why is conspiracy essential

Very forgettable book

>> No.14420838

>>14420821
The point of the list and why it should be read in order is to foster the psychological and intellectual growth of the moral heroes journey. Conspiracy could really be replaced with whatever antinatalist, doomer determinist narrative you like. I was just trying to come up with something quick on my lunch break.

>> No.14420851

>>14420638
literature is anything that's written with letters, kys

>> No.14421356

>>14419428
where is the location in the pic?

>> No.14421446

>>14420075
I wouldn’t say he’s in the closet about it.

>> No.14421836

>>14419988
BASTE? YO BASTE?

>> No.14421861

>>14420851
Absolutely false. This board used to be good, and it’s been completely lost to pseudo intellectual phil posters who don’t even bother to actually explain the positions of their “favorite authors”. Instead we have a cringe worthy echo chamber where people try to establish the superiority of the handful of philosophers they have read based on polemics, without understanding their opponents position, or really their own.

I fucking hate philosophy. Fuck you.

My ten books:
Complete Samuel Johnson
Complete John Keats
Illiad
Oddysey
Pale king
Arabian nights
Nine stories, jd salinger
Master and margarita
The iceman cometh

>> No.14421927

>>14421861
>My ten books:
>Complete Samuel Johnson
>Complete John Keats
>Illiad
>Oddysey
>Pale king
>Arabian nights
>Nine stories, jd salinger
>Master and margarita
>The iceman cometh
Now that's some uniquely valued choices I can respect because of your own personal desire.

>> No.14422043

>>14420851
>written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
>lasting artistic merit
Infinite Jest isn't even considered literature. A large percentage of the threads that are actually about fiction are about postmodernism.
>>14421861
I looked through the whole catalog (150 posts) and these are the only vaguely literature related posts I've found.
>My girlfriend bought be a Tolkien book, can you guys please tell me what it's about? I don't know how to use Google.
>Is this a good chart for the greeks?
>Favourite mythological texts: What's your favorite mythological narrative, /lit/? (This thread could be good depending on whether not this post has been derailed by Guenon and DFW spam yet)
>Brothers Karamazov/ dostoyevsky thread Just making this to ask why the elder bowed to everyone after they argued? I’m too dumb to get what was being implied Pic unrelated (Another anon who doesn't know how to use Google)
>Post your favorite passage from Paradise Lost
>What do you guys think of Yeats?
> I want to read the Illiad, Metamorphoses, Medea, Bacchae in English or German. Are there gold standard translations?
The literature discussion here is terrible. The only time literature is ever mentioned is "any recs?"

>> No.14422087

>>14419428
none of them
essential books is a meme
just read what you're curious about

>> No.14422124

>>14422043
>The literature discussion here is terrible.
This may be the /lit/ board but it's still 4chan

>> No.14422203

the whole western canon
the whole eastern canon
aboriginal folk tales
neanderthal cave paintings
the hidden god-text

>> No.14422231

>>14419428
Textbooks of the following
Physics
Geometry
Calculus
Chemistry
Biology
World History
Materials and manufacturing
Psychology
Anatomy
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell

>> No.14422422

>>14419988
Kaczynski's a fucking retard

>> No.14422423

>>14419428
Lonesome Dove

>> No.14422428

>>14422231
Get out of here you fucking robot. This thread's for constructs with soul

>> No.14422459

>>14420562

Based list

>> No.14422461

>>14420050
still brilliant

>> No.14423221

>>14419428

The Bible
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Metamorphoses
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Hamlet

Want to include Goethe’s Faust, Heart of Darkness, The Waste Land and The Brothers Karamazov but idk what to cut.