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I'm taking a year out of university.

What lit should I read in this year so when I go back I can D O M I N A T E in the classroom?

I'm thinking Freud / Lacan / Foucault / Zizek , the post-modernists

Phrased differently: What is the most relevant school of thought today?

>> No.6896647

Nietzsche and Marx

>> No.6896649

Your motivations embarrass me through my empathy for you.

>> No.6896657

>>6896647
Those too. I'm reading Hegel and other German Idealists before I move onto Das Kapital.

>>6896649
It's a small part of why everyone studies, bud. Post-Modernist thought does strongly interest me though and it's moreso that I want to get a good grade/not sit in stilted silence during seminars. I'm very anxious so a concrete thought system is important to me.

>> No.6896708

>>6896657
get into the basics of Marxist theory before getting into Capital. Make sure you've read Wage-labour and Capital and Value Price and Profit too.

>> No.6896721

>>6896644
>>6896657
Just try not to sound like a pretentious twat while discussing these things. Also, Derrida might be worth looking into, but you should go for his main works about deconstruction rather than all his poetic prose stuff (it is very interesting, but not all that helpful unless you're trying to understand what a post-modern faith might look like).

>> No.6896734

Heidegger Hegel Nietzsche Marx probably TBH be honest.

I would say Derrida > Foucault nowadays. Zizek is my boy but probably not of any real clout in a class. More like a bar philosopher still. Maybe he will flush his own work out more before he dies, although i love him and think he is great exercise for the mind.

>> No.6896773

sheldon axler - precalculus

>> No.6896785

Should I read Marx if my class is reading Death of a Salesman.
Threw some Zizek and Foucault examples in my last essay (on Wag the Dog) and did really well.
Context is baby's first ontology/epistemology.

>> No.6896797

>>6896644
Maritime sea law.
You'll need that most of all anon.
A post grad simply cannot get by without knowing the ocean and her ways.
Pop Quiz: Three flashes from the light house means?

>> No.6896799

>>6896644

look at your womens studies reading lists
and your sociology reading lists.

>> No.6896806

Studies show most people who "take a year off" rarely actually go back.

But take it from someone who's on college #4... you might be better off that way.

>> No.6896810

>>6896644
The God Delusion

>> No.6896875

>>6896806
It's classified as an "intermission" and I think those statistics might be a little different here in the UK.

Besides, I'm not taking a year off to "find myself". I am in a dire financial situation, which is the only reason they're letting me take the year off. My overdraft has hit - £1500 (~ $2500) and I've been unable to eat some days.

>> No.6896911

>>6896875
good luck to you

>> No.6896921

>>6896875
>My overdraft has hit - £1500 (~ $2500) and I've been unable to eat some days.

How did you manage that, you wally?

>> No.6897000

>>6896911
Thanks. I'm sure it'll be fine.

>>6896921
Family are well-off enough that I get the absolute minimum living-loan. Poor enough that they can't fully support me financially. We only just meet the threshold.

>> No.6897004

>>6896875
That's rough. Good luck getting through it. My mom suggested stripping to me once but that might be even more useless advice for you than it was for me.

>> No.6897041

Sorry, but continental shit has never been relevant outside of its own little bubble. Maybe if you're doing a gender studies or sociology degree you will be able to use what you gather from those charlatans, but for a real degree they will only hinder your progress.

>> No.6897047

>>6896644
>he thinks if he reads these things he'll ''dominate'' anything other than the audience in his mind, listening to him asking himself the perfect questions and answering in memorized quotes
Just don't be a cunt, and say something when you feel you can contribute to the discussion. Read on what you're studying, but only use the extra information if it's relevant to what you're discussing at the time.

>> No.6897050

>>6897047
But how else will his class know when They are Signifying the Other over the Self?

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6897073

>>6896644
stiner,ayn rand,marx,nietzsche and watch zizeks movies

>> No.6897699

>>6896644
If you want to understand and be able to implement the concepts of these people rather than just haphazardly namedrop them like your classmates and lazy tenured professors it is going to take more than a year.

>> No.6897729

>>6897041
Psychology isn't exactly small-time business.

>> No.6898776

>>6896644
Jung

>> No.6898826

>>6897073

>Stirner
>And Rand

Stirner was like Rand except not fucking retarded, so skip her

>> No.6899651

Freud/Lacan are not relevant. English departments with subgroups devoted to psychoanalysis are very rare nowadays. Zizek's most recent activity is more pop-philosophy then anything. Sublime Object of Ideology came out in 89! Foucault is always relevant.

What is relevant today? Queer theory, interdisciplinary stuff. I'm sure that you, like everyone else, put the post-structuralists on a pedestal, but those schools of thought are not widely practiced today. Your university probably has one or two professors out its entire English department that study that field.

If you want to dominate in class, you should read all of its assigned material as closely as possible and look up unassigned secondary research pertinent to the subject on your own. All across the world, students are trying to squeeze their half-baked ideas about (popular theorist) into their class discussions and it's painful every time. Don't be that guy.

>> No.6899701

>I'm taking a year out of university.
>I've been unable to eat some days.
>What lit should I read in this year so when I go back I can D O M I N A T E in the classroom?

This has to be a troll. No one could possibly be facing poverty and debt to the extent of going hungry, and still be concerned with posturing, name-dropping, and ostentatiously reading the trendiest theorists. Right?

>> No.6899704

>>6896797
only relevant answer

>> No.6899754

>>6897041
cute post

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6899821

>>6896734
>to be honest be honest

>> No.6900579

>>6897729
psychoanalysis is not psychology

>> No.6901342

>>6899701
CASUAL
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>> No.6901748

>>6899701
You underestimate how seriously I take the literary lifestyle.

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>>6897041

>> No.6902039

>>6898826
>tfw you actually quite like Atlas Shrugged but see it trashed on lit daily

>> No.6902066

>>6899701
>implying that all of my university, food, rent and bills aren't all paid by my grandmother
Must suck coming from a poor family.

>> No.6902304

>>6896644
Choose 3 or 4 authors, and master them completely.

But choose them well because there's no turning back.

>hint: at least one Greek

>> No.6902339

>>6899701
I do.

I haven't eaten anything but ramen for a week and here I am.

Just finished rereading some Hegel though. Some fascinating stuff, really. The Jena Lectures really helps you understand The Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic, don’t you think?