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Did I do good? Went to Barnes and Noble and was impressed with their philosophy section.

Seneca - letters from a stoic (I loved meditations so I thought this was the next step)
Satre - existentialism is a humanism (introduction to existentialism I think)
Arthur Schopenhauer - essays and aphorisms (my favorite philosopher after reading a small introduction to him so I thought I would enjoy his work)
Albert Camus - lyrical and essays (maybe my favorite philosopher behind Schopenhauer)

Then some comedy book about philosophers sucking at love and how miserable their love life's were.

>> No.8438933
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8438933

>>8438903
>Went to Barnes and Noble and was impressed with their philosophy section.

Literally every Barnes and Noble I've been to, their philosophy section has been: those shite pop philosophy books, Kant, Kierkegaard, Plato, Nietzche and Ayn Rand.

You must live near a college campus or something.

>> No.8438946
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>>8438933
>in Finland
>biggest bookstore chain has a "psychology/philosophy" shelf
>almost everything is horrible pop phil/psych, self-help and Sun Tzu
in the middle of it all, in fitting company, I find this

>> No.8438962

>>8438946
Violence has been so far the best Zizek I've read aside from perhaps, Demanding the Impossible. It's his most accessible book.

>> No.8438969

>>8438962
It is definitely his "best" in a way. It combines a lot of what is actually important in his politics with still being one of his lighter, more fun books. It won't give you his Lacanian or Hegelian theory in full, though.

>> No.8438984

>>8438969

>It won't give you his Lacanian or Hegelian """"""theory""""" in full, though.

Thank fuck.

>> No.8439088

Bump

>> No.8439173

>>8438903
And I bet you paid 4 times what you would have paid had you ordered online.

>> No.8439197

>>8438903
>Then some comedy book about philosophers sucking at love and how miserable their love life's were.

Name of said book?

>> No.8439323

>>8439197
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Philosophers-Who-Failed-Love/dp/0061969818

>> No.8439330

Degenerate.

>> No.8439510

>>8438903
Only if you're a man

>> No.8439533

>>8438903
How's the plug?

>> No.8439543

>>8438946
suomi :DDDD