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[Anonymous No.20093287]

Please recommend me some cutting edge recently published philosophy books.

[Anonymous No.20093288]

Wish I could buy I'm still reading all the classics

[Anonymous No.20093292]

>>20093287
>recently published philosophy books.
Cringe. Just wait until I'm published, there's nothing worth reading thus far.

[Anonymous No.20093306]

>>20093292
What's your philosophy

[Anonymous No.20093310]

>>20093287
Go back to r.eddit. Philosophy isnt technology. Theres no progress. Its just various metaphysical perspectives. Who knows which one(s) is right if there are any that are.

[Anonymous No.20093319]

>>20093310
So recommend me some interesting new perspectives

[Anonymous No.20093321]

>>20093319
Start with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.20093329]

>>20093321
We truly are in the dark age of philosophy rn aren't we? crazy...

[Anonymous No.20093332]

>>20093329
Yes. The last person with any decent insights was heidegger but really the last true philosopher was Nietzche.

[Anonymous No.20093352]

>>20093310
Answer the guy!

[Anonymous No.20093834]

>>20093287
Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation by Byung Chul-Han and In The Swarm
Human, Forever by Poulos
After God, Peter Sloterdijk and his Bubbles series

David Bentley Hart, Zizek, and Lyotard are all living people with sizeable readership and influence for varying levels of deservedness.

[Anonymous No.20093847]

>>20093834
Michael Sandel's Meritocracy is a good read but not astounding. Nussbaum and Habermas are also living but I haven't read anything from them.

[Anonymous No.20093880]

>>20093287
Jordan Peterson rules for life

[Anonymous No.20093885]

Bronze Age Mindset

SUBMIT

[Anonymous No.20093935]

A Spirit of Trust - Robert Brandom

This is one of the recent books that is actually making waves within academic philosophy.

[Anonymous No.20094135]

>>20093834
>>20093847
>>20093935
Thank you

[Anonymous No.20094622]

[Anonymous No.20094644]

>>20094622
Careful this will piss off the Heideggerians.

Giorgio Agamben (start with Homo Sacer) is a contemporary mind id recommend

[Anonymous No.20094648]

>>20093310
Kant made progress in my opinion.

The realization that what I see is representation is a pretty big development. Though really it was Berkeley who first wrote about it.

I think it's apodictic that what I see is representation but I guess it could just be Kant's opinion. I don't really see how he could be wrong maybe Nietsczhe's criticism about the thing-in-itself is a good example of how he could be wrong? But the world is still my representation.even if there's no thing-in-itself. It just means there's appearance without any reality.

So yes, I think Kant made some progress. Please tell me if I'm wrong.

[Anonymous No.20095169]

I would have to agree with >>20093935.
There seems to be a strong trend right now in reading German Idealism (mainly Kant & Hegel) & Aristotle and developing ideas from (re)interpreting their major & minor works.

The University of Chicago seems to be having a lot of interesting work being published in that vein (see: Irad Kimhi's "Thinking & Being" and Robert Pippin's "Hegel's Realm of Shadows"). I read Kimhi's book and it was at times really interesting & really dry, but if you're interested in current metaphysics, that could be a good place to look.

Also, looking into major philosophers from "the Pittsburgh school" might be a nice look into semi-recent work in metaphysics, at least in the west.

[Anonymous No.20095410]

>Seeking new perspectives in philosophy after Parmenides
>Seeking new perspectives in philosophy after Hume
>Seeking new perspectives in philosophy after Wittgenstein
>Seeking new perspectives in philosophy after Sellars
>...
>having any level of education in the basic epistemological problems expounded in the western tradition and still having an interest in or believing that it's possible for anyone to make "progress" or advance "new perspectives" of any value in any field of philosophy
Why? The single most thoroughly and repeatedly illustrated fact in the history of the western philosophical tradition philosophy is that philosophy is a dead end, for defeatingly strong reasons that occur at every level from the most fundamental initial assumptions to the higher level distinction problems. Western philosophy is a rite of passage used by mystery schools to teach their initiates clean thinking skills. Actually looking to it for answers or "progress" to/on any substantial questions is completely missing the point. Everything post Plato is satire. Aristotle was a joke that flew over you head.

[Anonymous No.20095467]

theres alot of "philosophy as psychology" now.
like when you think about it.
and according to evolutionary psychs
and with that id be circular in reasoning.
but philosophy is really the first cope of civilization

[Anonymous No.20096362]

>>20095410
>Western philosophy is a rite of passage used by mystery schools to teach their initiates clean thinking skills.
I agree with you anon. Whats the next step after philosophy?

[Anonymous No.20096378]

This board needs a book request general so we don't see five of these threads a day

[Anonymous No.20096636]

>>20093287
did you read that black incels manifesto last month? I thought his passage on "goldheads" quite illuminary

[Anonymous No.20096907]

>>20096362
The basic lesson of philosophy is that you can't know anything by reason alone. From there you have options - decide you don't care about knowing things or decide you believe in something like gnosis (the ability to know things directly, without the intermediary of reason - if you accept this you can build back a system of reason based on axioms you take as direct gnostic insights if you want to) and go about developing your ability for gnostic insight. In other words, become an artist, meditator, mystic seeker basically. Pursue those things that you perceive to have value in themselves.

[Anonymous No.20097681]

>>20094644
why? isn't heidegger object-oriented enough already?