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17390419 No.17390419 [Reply] [Original]

This is the only book that explains our current situation and /lit/ should get on it.

>> No.17390437

that's not the culture of narcissism

>> No.17390526

>>17390437
elaborate

>> No.17390566

>>17390437
that's not TLP's blog post compendium

>> No.17390590

>it's a modern "conservative" seethes about scepticism of objective truth, ignoring that Cicero, Montaigne, Hobbes, Hume, et al. were sceptics episode

>> No.17390603

>>17390590
True, but at least they were tolerable skeptics and not, like Skepticism as a paradigm, painfully insufferable.

>> No.17390608

I am getting really tired of these meme reddit books that do nothing but state the obvious in 300 pages of filler

>> No.17391045

>>17390608
oh god it's the establishment book poster again with some more mainstream crap

>> No.17391057

>>17390419
If a book explains our situation and is also a national bestseller, then why do people continue to not understand the situation or fail to devise solutions? Obviously mainstream books cannot have explained the fundamentals of problems that currently and still exist.

>> No.17391066

read fellow teachers by rieff

>> No.17391070

The book is pretty boring, I've read it. HOWEVER you can hear him lecture on YouTube and he is supremely entertaining. Also Saul Bellow wrote a very comfy book about his friendship with him.

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>>17391045
>>17390608
Gentlemen gentlemen please
Let's put away the toys of childhood and come to love higher sources of fascist thought

>> No.17391082

>>17391070
did he do a translation of emile by rousseau? p sure my copy is trannied by allan bloom

>> No.17391224

>>17391057
Because one thing is learning and another is taking action. The same people that read are not taking action anon. Also, the people that need to read this book will never read this book.

>> No.17391232

>>17391070
It does get boring by the middle. I do wish he had spent more time on different topics

>> No.17391376

>>17390419
If you liked this you've gotta read Ravelstein, which is a novel about Allan Bloom (named Ravelstein in the book) written by his pal Saul Bellow. Though a minor work it's my favorite Bellow.