It's Sunday.

[Anonymous No.20728080]

What book are you reading?

[Anonymous No.20728119]

>>20728080
Im writing a report on Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back and reading Samuel Webers Legend of Freud

[Anonymous No.20728131]

>>20728119
i bought a dennett on an audible sale. calling it midwit would be generous. maybe this guy published some important papers or something, but his pop books suck.

[Anonymous No.20728142]

>>20728119
Sounds pretty interesting anon, are you doing a degree in neuroscience or something?

[Anonymous No.20728162]

>>20728142
Nah, it's for some University magazine
>>20728131
I regret choosing that book because I didn't enjoy it, but now its too late

[Anonymous No.20728197]

>>20728080
I'm not reading anything.

[Anonymous No.20728201]

>>20728080
Topology via Logic by Steve Vickers

[Anonymous No.20728208]

>>20728080
Macbeth

[Anonymous No.20728213]

Annals of the Former World

[Anonymous No.20728215]

>>20728080
Louis Bouyer, The Meaning of Sacred Scripture

[Anonymous No.20728217]

>>20728080
None. I'm supposed to be doing work, but I got sidetracked with shitposting.

[Anonymous No.20728248]

I’ve got 20 pages left in the book I’m reading now. Then I have to decide between Under the Volcano and Look Homeward, Angel.

[Anonymous No.20728327]

>>20728080
Fancy Goods by Paul Morand

[Anonymous No.20728334]

>>20728080
"Contos fantásticos do século XIX escolhidos por Italo Calvino"

[Anonymous No.20728336]

>>20728119
>report
Holy high school, anon

[Anonymous No.20728344]

>>20728334
In english, macaco.

[Anonymous No.20728360]

>>20728344
That's the title of the book, you inbred

[Anonymous No.20728361]

>>20728334
>calvino
Into the trash

[Anonymous No.20728369]

The first part of ISOLT. Fucking Swann, so cucked.

[Anonymous No.20728382]

>>20728080
Book of Numbers
Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus were all pretty good but I'm getting filtered hard right now. It's just so uninteresting.

[Anonymous No.20728384]

Being & Time...
its ok but i already had most of these thoughts while reading kant. only reason for me to like this would be some sort of convoluted version of spectator sport, where i would derive some joy from someone else vindicating my own thoughts, but i dont experience that.

[Anonymous No.20728393]

>>20728080

[Anonymous No.20728403]

>>20728080
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal

[Anonymous No.20728405]

>>20728382
it's basically a history book, yeah. just keep going.
out of curiosity, are you trying to do it cover to cover? i could suggest an order, if you'd like.

[Anonymous No.20728454]

>>20728405
>out of curiosity, are you trying to do it cover to cover?
I'm a Christian who has read most of the New Testament and a few books from the Old Testament but I've never read the entire Bible so I've decided to read the entire book from beginning to end.

[Anonymous No.20728463]

100 pages in, comfy as fuck. may be better than journey

[Anonymous No.20728471]

>>20728463
i dropped it at the gay boarding school part not because i'm opposed to gay boarding schools but because it was boring, not sure if that was after a 100 pages but it could be.

[Anonymous No.20728484]

Considering dropping Savage Detectives because it's really boring

[Anonymous No.20728486]

>>20728080

[Anonymous No.20728490]

>>20728454
oh, nice enough. i was going to suggest the NT before the OT.
checked out the Bible thread yet? a few trolls here and there but it's quite nice.
also, any little questions you might have of what you read?

[Anonymous No.20728543]

>>20728201
Looks nice. Do you have previous experience with locale theory? I've never had anyone explain it to me but would be very interested.

>>20728334
Baseado. Os contos são brasileiros ou europeus?

>>20728369
>>20728403
Dîtes-moi ce que vous en pensez après.

>>20728384
What is it about, anon? I didn't know Heidegger's work was so related to Kant that you could literally just read Kant and think up Being and Time. Do you think Heidegger is still a worthy read anyway?

[Anonymous No.20728553]

>>20728484
Maybe Game of Thrones is more appropriate for you? The only people who get filtered by Bolaño are fags and women who exclusively read YA

[Anonymous No.20728580]

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by PKD and Inherent Vice by Pinecone

[Anonymous No.20728589]

Carmilla. It wss gayer than I expected.

[Anonymous No.20728596]

>>20728336
Book review? Idk what its called in english

[Anonymous No.20728632]

>>20728589
Yeah, Le Fanu was into blood sucking lesbians, pretty based desu

[Anonymous No.20728641]

>>20728553
Only teenagers get this pissy when someone doesn't like what they like

[Anonymous No.20728644]

>>20728080
Very close to finish this meme book. Pokler's bits are my favorite ones.

[Anonymous No.20728695]

>>20728543
>Baseado. Os contos são brasileiros ou europeus?
European.
It's a collection of fantastic/supernatural short stories and novellas chosen by Italo Calvino for a telecine series commissioned by Rai-TV (italian broadcast network) in 1981.
The original title is "Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento".
I'll now list all the chosen short stories and novellas with the titles in the language they were written:
-Histoire du démoniaque Pascheco - Jan Potocki
-Die Zauberei im Herbst - Joseph von Eichendorff
-Der Sandmann - Ernst T A Hoffmann
-Wandering Willie's Tale - Walter Scott
-L'élixir de longue vie - Honoré de Balzac
-L'œil sans paupière - Philarète Chasles
-La main enchantée - Gérard de Nerval
-Young Master Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne
-Nos - Nikolai Gogol
-La morte amoureuse - Théophile Gautier
-La Vénus d'Ille - Prosper Mérimée
-The ghost and the bonesetter - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-The Tale-Tell Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
-Skyggen - Hans Christian Andersen
-The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens
-Son - Ivan Turgenev
-Čertogon - Nikolai Leskov
-A s'y meprendre ! - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
-Amour dure - Vernon Lee
-Chickamauga - Ambrose Bierce
-Les trous du masque - Jean Lorrain
-The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis -The friends of the friends - Henry James
-The bridge-builders - Ruyard Kipling
-The country of the blind - H G Wells

[Anonymous No.20728712]

>>20728695
*-The friends of the friends - Henry James
Woops, I messed up the formatting

[Anonymous No.20728733]

>>20728080
Probably some Max Weber, Marshall McLuhan and Leopold Von Ranke

[Anonymous No.20728739]

>>20728080
Ulysses for the read-a-long and the Canterbury Tales. Might start re-reading the Iliad, but two big books is a decent time commitment as is

[Anonymous No.20728837]

>>20728543
it's about the criticism of the assumptions underlying the traditional approaches to epistemology and traditionally assumed obviousness with regards to the concept of "being".

in trying to to get a new foundation heidegger postulates "dasein", for which being itself is essentially an issue. according to heidegger, there must be an existential analytic of perceived truth, being etc. instead of assuming them as present-at-hand entities completely separate from "what is already going on" (as opposed to "ready-to-handedness" which characterizes entities as they appear within Dasein's "care")

in this context, both naive realism but also other explanations like transcendetal idealism are specious since both of them assume that the question can be solved at all in a present-at-hand way. thus kants idea of trying to reduce the things to the representations of some subject falters because in a present-at-hand way we could not even know which part is the subject and which part the influence of some other entity. In other words, it would be on the level of naive realism but in the other direction in assuming subjectivity as something magically different in its Being from things or "reality".

If we take spatiality, for example, then for Heidegger it wouldn't be so much a category that gets worked out in a subject-object relation as it would be a mode of being-in-the-world, inextricable from other total context of involvement with it. (like "care", being whose being is an issue for itseilf, dasein's being-ahead-of-being-already-in-the-world, deseverance of distance, which is related to time etc.) In comparison, Kantian subject looks deeply problematical and primitive, starting from how such an isolated being would connect to the things it categorizes into representations and all the problems that brings along.

It might just be that Heidegger is articulating some really deep and at heart common-sensical intuitions to a philosophical language and as an adequate response, so it's not to say "I could've written it" so much as: yes I'm agreeing with his Kant critiques and all, but like, to what end lol. Am i not just a spectator in the sport of philosophical wrestling, an autistic and sad thought if any.

[Anonymous No.20728899]

>>20728695
Some titles sound absolutely comfy. Good reading, anon. Is the collection actually multi-lingual or are they all translated?

>>20728644
Is this actually worth my time?

>>20728837
I risk sounding retarded, but I don't actually understand most of what you wrote here, anon. For example: "there must be an existential analytic of perceived truth". An analytic, as far as I know, is a proposition whose truth can be ascertained simply by looking in depth at what it means, no actual experience required. Existential, I would imagine, means that this analytic proposition has an existential quantifier in it. Perceived truth is what I don't get. Does this sentence mean that Heidegger believes there exists some analytic proposition posing the existence of something, not necessarily true, but perceived as true? Isn't this obvious from experience (though of course that's not analytic), and why would we care? I'm sorry if my questions sound dumb.

[Anonymous No.20728910]

>>20728899
>Is this actually worth my time?
You like comfiness, so maybe not.

[Anonymous No.20728920]

>>20728899
>Good reading, anon. Is the collection actually multi-lingual or are they all translated?
Thanks! They've all been delightful to read.
They are all translated to portuguese in this edition.

[Anonymous No.20728921]

>>20728543
>Dîtes-moi ce que vous en pensez après.
Great book so far, i love the (translated) prose.

[Anonymous No.20728934]

>>20728899
Well, Heidegger actually says "existential analytic of Dasein (being-there)" but since all truth happens in the total context of involvements of Dasein, I think it's fair to say that the idea of what constitutes truth must be analyzed with that in mind, as Dasein's mode of being, not just as a present-at-hand thing.

I'm currently at the point of the book where he starts to talk about the role of truth in more detail, apparently.

[Anonymous No.20728971]

>>20728080
deep storm or maybe storm deep. one of those. I'm cleaning up first, so I can properly enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.20729020]

Finally starting with Austen

[Anonymous No.20729054]

>>20728080
I'm reading Jack London's The Sea-Wolf and I'm loving Wolf Larsen and hating MC. I wish there are more books where thr antagonist appears as much as the protagonist and is better and more interesting than him.

[Anonymous No.20729055]

>>20728739
How is Canterbury Tales? Been thinking of reading it myself.

[Anonymous No.20729059]

>>20728119
The Science of Numerology

[Anonymous No.20729070]

King Lear

[Anonymous No.20729074]

>>20728080
Robert Middlekauf's The Glorious Cause and T.H. White's Arthurian works.

[Anonymous No.20729082]

Just finished Blood Meridian which felt like a pretty long read. So now I will read some shorter comfy stories such as Lovecraft, Kafka, Arthur Machen and The Old Man and the Sea.

[Anonymous No.20729092]

>>20728080
it's 10:30. i'm drinking a tall boy pacifico and will read poetry--perhaps goethe or dante or virgil

[Anonymous No.20729105]

>>20728080
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.20730037]

bump

[Anonymous No.20730065]

>>20728080
The Trial

[Anonymous No.20730391]

>>20728080
I'm reading pic related in between matches on Warzone. I'm on a bit of DFW bender, something about his annoying prose is comfy, something about an eloquent modern writer not being completely pozzed is inspiring.

I should stop playing vidya and just go at it for a bit.

[Anonymous No.20730415]

>>20728393
How is compared to Psych of the Unconscious? I love Jung but reading his work can be like pulling teeth

[Anonymous No.20730422]

>>20730415
this is my first book of his. I'm pretty well learned in the symbolism stuff so it was a really quick read for me but I can't say I'd have the same experience with other books. I also really glided over the dream bs.

[Anonymous No.20730439]

>>20728644
I love the oscillation of Slothrops misadventures, ragged bum one second yacht orgies the next.

[Anonymous No.20730456]

Just dropped Falkner's Sound and the Fury, too stressful for me. Filtered beyond belief, is the rest of his work that difficult?