/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18473433]

ITT: Post authors that you consider them to be the closest thing to a mentor. Try to be honest.

>Jordan B. Peterson
I used to listen to his lectures all of the time. He introduced me to Jung's ideas.
>Manly P. Hall
His lectures are honestly something else, full of esoteric wisdom and fanstastic knowledge, philosophy and fascinating ideas.
>Will Durant
Currently reading the story of civilization. Reading this wonderful 11 volume set made me more interested in history and philosophy than anything else I have ever encountered.
>Rene Guenon
I consider it a blessing to know about Guenon's books (pbuh).

[Anonymous No.18473530]

>>18473433
>Alan Watts
>Richard Dawkins
>Eckhart Tolle
>Sam Harris

[Anonymous No.18473553]

>>18473433
-Stephen King
-KJ Parker
-Neil Gaiman
-Garth Nix

[Anonymous No.18473567]

>>18473530
>>18473553
Sneed

[Anonymous No.18473570]

>>18473553
These are authors I read growing up. They were formative, and pointed me to better works.

[Anonymous No.18473634]

>guenonfag is a pseud
surprise

[Anonymous No.18473834]

>>18473433
Rene Guenon
Palingenius
Le Sphinx
Abd al-Wahid Yahya

[Anonymous No.18473853]

>>18473834
based

[Anonymous No.18473885]

>>18473433
William James, Bergson, Bataille, Deleuze

[Anonymous No.18473900]

>>18473433
You fell for the memes, embarrassing but cleaned-penispilled

[Anonymous No.18473905]

>>18473433
>Post authors that you consider them to be the closest thing to a mentor
fucking kek

>>18473900
this

[Anonymous No.18473938]

>>18473885
What it's like to live knowing your whole worldview was retroactively refuted?

[Anonymous No.18473961]

>>18473938
You'll have to tell me

[Anonymous No.18474035]

>globohomo puppet
>free Mason
>I don't even know
>if you read guenon drop the other three

[Anonymous No.18474043]

>>18474035
Guenon was also a freemason, retard.

[Anonymous No.18474055]

>>18473961
jesus what a takedown

[Anonymous No.18474061]

>>18474043
Early in his life until he realized it was a dead end.

[Anonymous No.18474077]

>>18473961
What did Guenon say to cause so much seething?

[Anonymous No.18474178]

>Valentin Tomberg

[Anonymous No.18474206]

>>18473433
insanely cringe collection of midwit hacks

[Anonymous No.18474222]

>>18474206
>insanely cringe collection of midwit hacks
Why is /lit/ full of pseud fedora tipping redditors?

[Anonymous No.18474462]

Platos complete works is like my great^ Grandpa speaking to me indirectly

[Anonymous No.18474469]

>>18473433
your dad should have beaten you more

[Anonymous No.18474496]

Why does Peterson make all the discord trannies seethe so much?

[Anonymous No.18476455]

>>18474222

Because 4chan is one of the most visited websites on the Internet and a lot closer to reddit than most 4channers seem comfortable admitting to themselves

[Anonymous No.18476490]

>>18476455
4chan's Alexa rank is 1042, Reddits is 19
Reddit gets around 1.7 billion unique visitors a month, 4chan 20 million

This is a factor of 100 between the two, reddit is an internet giant, one of the single most important sites, 4chan is just a popular imageboard

[Anonymous No.18476511]

>>18476490

With 20 million visitors a month. Many of whom also visit reddit. 4chan is not
>muh secret meme club
and acting like it's anything other than a cul-de-sac for the mentally unwell and edgelord high schoolers is just laughable

[Anonymous No.18476526]

>>18476511
20 million visitors is about 0.26% of the worlds population
1.7 billion is 22%, surely you get the difference here?

[Anonymous No.18476528]

>>18476455
>>18476490
Calling atheists "reddit" is just an attack on [pseudo]rationalism because they are obnoxious and ask for sources, evidence, and proofs etc. But these same asshats are all "read guenon/shankara/aquinas oh yeah im proooooving metaphysics," which is also a [pseudo]rationalism.

[Anonymous No.18476534]

>>18473433
Ernest Becker

[Anonymous No.18476544]

This chad.

[Anonymous No.18476573]

>>18476526

I'm not arguing that more people don't visit reddit, I'm saying that 4chan's constant feigned indignation about being overrun by redditors is stupid, considering this website is visited by more unique individuals per month than the entire population of the Netherlands

[Anonymous No.18476898]

>>18473433
>Bertrand Russell
Read History of Western Philosophy in 6th grade. Of course, I didn't understand much at the time but it really kindled my interest in philosophy and I kept on going back to it.
>Arthur Schopenhauer
I love the metaphysics of the World as Will and Representation (even if I don't think his arguments are that strong) and he introduced me to the Upanishads.
>Camille Paglia
Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders saved me from Foucault and all kinds of poststructuralism, which I was dabbling in at the time. She also introduced me to McLuhan, O. Brown, Fielder, and Neumann (plus Sexual Personae is an amazing book).
>Marcel Proust
Words cannot describe how much I love this man. He was my gateway into really loving literature and most things just seem like massive disappointments now.

[Anonymous No.18476923]

>James Joyce
>Kafka
>Toni Morrison
>Leslie Marmon Silko
>Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.18476943]

>>18473885
Schizo

>>18473530
Pseud if real

>>18476898
Based

>>18476923
Almost there but not quite based

[Anonymous No.18476952]

Rene Guenon (pbuh)
Julius Evola (pbuh)
Frithjof Schuon (pbuh)
Martin Lings (pbuh)

[Anonymous No.18477010]

>>18476952
Based

[Anonymous No.18477021]

None. There are authors i respect, but none i would consider a mentor.

[Anonymous No.18477023]

>>18473433
-Peterson
+Durant
>>18473530
-Dawkins
-Harris
>>18473553
-Everything
>>18473885
+James
+Bergson
>>18476898
+Proust
>>18476923
+Joyce
+Kafka
+Nietzsche
>>18476952
-Evola

[Anonymous No.18477083]

>>18473530
Bait

[Anonymous No.18477147]

>>18473834
kek

[Anonymous No.18477155]

>>18476952
based

[Anonymous No.18477168]

>>1847396
>no u
>Thinking the atheist Bataille can refute anything

[Anonymous No.18477254]

>>18473433
Guénon (pbuh)
Saint Isaac the Syrian (pbuh)

Saints are mentors because their writings are blessings. I have a lot of sweet love for both of them. I love others but in a different way, maybe not on this level.

[Anonymous No.18477270]

>>18477254
I forgot Plato

I like Shankara but I fear him, the fact he could maybe not accept me

[Anonymous No.18477275]

>>18477270
(pbut)

[Anonymous No.18477294]

>>18473885
Pure pseudery I’m afraid

[Anonymous No.18477310]

>F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.18477323]

>>18473433
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Payne
Ayn Rand
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Epicurus
David Humme
Baruch Spinoza
Hans Herman Hoppe
Murray Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises

[Anonymous No.18477371]

>>18473433
Gabor Mate

[Anonymous No.18477374]

>>18473433
Unironically

[Anonymous No.18477406]

>>18477323
>Ayn Rand
>Aristotle and not Plato

[Anonymous No.18477413]

>>18477406
That's the point, sue me.

[Anonymous No.18478007]

>>18473433
1. Jordan Peterson
2. Hamza Yusuf
3. Aristotle
4. Will durant

[Anonymous No.18478246]

>>18473433
Ahmad Fardid
Carl Schmitt
Jacques Lacan
Bertolt Brecht

[Anonymous No.18478619]

>>18473433
Sheakspeare
He nailed human nature.
Pessoa
He nailed the imaginations nature
Deluze
He tried to describe reality with words
Wittgenstein
He proved you can't describe reality with words

[Anonymous No.18478650]

>>18473433
>Guenon
>Shankara
>Lao Tzu
>Sanai
>Dostoevsky
>Cervantes

[Anonymous No.18478729]

>>18473961
BASED!

[Anonymous No.18478765]

>>18473433
Nietzsche
Bataille
Burroughs
Laozi

[Anonymous No.18479262]

J.G. Hamann
Blaise Pascal
Lev Shestov
Sextus Empiricus

[Anonymous No.18480799]

bump

[Anonymous No.18480809]

Oh God why am I trapped here. This board is shit but I always end up coming back.

[Anonymous No.18480906]

>>18480809
You're not trapped, you're bored and afraid.

[Anonymous No.18480925]

>>18473530

nice bait have a (you)

[Anonymous No.18480934]

[Anonymous No.18480938]

>manly pee hole

[Anonymous No.18480944]

>>18477323
2016 called they want their cringe back

[Anonymous No.18480947]

>>18474496
Why do discord trannies make you seethe so much?

[Anonymous No.18480971]

>C.S Lewis
Probably influenced my thinking more than any other other. Makes me sad I’m not Protestant anymore
>G.K Chesterton
Love this man. Feminist eternally BTFO
>Jordan Peterson
I fell for the meme, but he did teach me to clean my room and wash my penis. OP said be honest, and there is no denying to myself he had a massive influence on how I think
>Booker T Washington
Based black man. A reminder to us all that if you can do something people need and do it well, you will be respected

[Anonymous No.18481030]

>>18480934
literally who?

[Anonymous No.18481128]

>>18480944
>your political ideology expired bro
>we all larping fascists who suck Guenon's gay cock now

[Anonymous No.18481210]

>>18481030
lurk more

[Anonymous No.18481224]

>>18481128
>Guenon (pbuh)
>fascist

[Anonymous No.18481262]

>>18481224
Never said Guenon was a fascist, he's too busy being a grown man who calls himself a witch for that, but the larping fascist 15 year olds here love to ride his dick

[Anonymous No.18481465]

>>18473961
Whats funny about this is, imho, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger barely hold a candle next to Guenon. The Germans are by comparison sophists who simply repackage the ideas of others and rebrand them as their own as I see it. At least Guenon acknowledges the past and doesn't seem to think he can simply convince people what he thinks is the truth is so as the Germans do.

[Anonymous No.18481473]

>>18473433
terrible list, OP.

[Anonymous No.18481481]

>>18480934
Based

[Anonymous No.18481564]

>>18474077
Basically that the entire "progress of history" is a myth and in fact there is only degeneration as time goes on until the end. He also shows this is basically common knowledge premodernity. He also pretty clearly communicates subtle esoteric truths that probably anger people who want to use such knowledge to keep others in the dark and manipulate them.
>>18473433
Bhikkhu Bodhi for a while. Guenon. And the rest of the authentic monotheists. I.e. the Bible and the Quran. Everything is an emanation after all. Dosto and Tolstoy for fiction.
>>18478650
Nice.

[Anonymous No.18481654]

William L Pierce
Andrew Anglin

Not joking

[Anonymous No.18481753]

>>18477374
I mean, kinda based.

[Anonymous No.18481759]

>>18478619
>Pessoa
You mean Fernando Pessoa? Didn't knew he was relevant in other countries.

[Anonymous No.18481944]

>>18481465
Behold the reading comprehension of guenonfags
>The Germans are by comparison sophists who simply repackage the ideas of others and rebrand them as their own as I see it.
Oh and guenon's theosophist hodgepodge of Islam and Hinduism into "tradition" is what, exactly?
>At least Guenon acknowledges the past and doesn't seem to think he can simply convince people what he thinks is the truth
Literally what does this even mean? Guy read some old books and wrote his own book. That's every philosopher. Oh he's not trying to convince anyone of anything? Really?

[Anonymous No.18481971]

>>18481564
>Basically that the entire "progress of history" is a myth and in fact there is only degeneration as time goes on until the end. He also shows this is basically common knowledge premodernity. He also pretty clearly communicates subtle esoteric truths that probably anger people who want to use such knowledge to keep others in the dark and manipulate them
You sound like you've skimmed Guenon and were unaware of Bataille, who also wrote substantially on mysticism, and didn't approach it by claiming things were better three gorillion yugas ago as if that seething perspective was some profound and enlightening eternal truth.

[Anonymous No.18481979]

>>18481759
The Book is Disquiet is fairly popular internationally. I also think that Bloom mentions him in The Western Canon.

[Anonymous No.18482057]

>>18481944
>Oh and guenon's theosophist hodgepodge of Islam and Hinduism into "tradition" is what, exactly?
t. didn't read guenon

[Anonymous No.18482238]

>>18473433
Walt Whitman
Montaigne
Lao Tzu

[Anonymous No.18483499]

>>18473433
Mishima
Aquinas
Thoreau
???