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Suggestions Anonymous Tue Jun 27 02:51:30 2017 No.9686366 [Reply] [Original]

What books would you suggest for someone trying to become a more well rounded polymath, to open the mind and expand horizons? I've always been a deep reader since I was younger but I feel a certain emptiness inside when it comes to good literature. It's been a while since something I've read really stuck with me and taught me something.

So please lit, give me your book/poetry/literature suggestions that can contribute to my thirst for knowledge

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 05:03:27 2017 No.9686727 File: 67 KB, 720x715, 1496802125093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] oh ho ho i always tell people to read the bible, and if you liked the game of thrones show the books are good too

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 05:23:46 2017 No.9686753 Hölderlin, anything else is useless.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 07:51:01 2017 No.9687036 >>9686366 Start with the greeks

Anonymous Tue Jun 27 08:14:16 2017 No.9687081

I'd say you should best look to those works created around 1900 (plus/minus a few decades). Maybe just pick your country's most notable authors of the time.

E.g. any of these author's major works will have plenty of traditional, philosopic depth: Proust, Mann, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Melville, Soseki.

Works created earlier than that, I feel, are less accessible and partly deal with topics that lost relevance when modern times came around.
Later works tend towards being less universal, or simply eschewing in-text philosophy for more effect-oriented writing.

The one modern book I'd wholeheartedly recommend is Seiobo There Below.

Anonymous Tue Jun 27 08:28:44 2017 No.9687115
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>>9686366
Umberto Eco writes books that are amazingly well researched, informative and fun to read.

Pic related is a great book if you are interested in western esotericism, his book "The Name of The Rose" is great aswell if you want to get a look into medieval monastic life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 09:58:07 2017 No.9687340 >>9686753 lel Heidegger reader detected Hölderlin is nice tho, what's your favorite work?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 10:17:24 2017 No.9687378 >>9687115 Is there a good reference guide out there for this? I don't want to be looking shit up every sentence.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 18:14:50 2017 No.9688955 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 21:44:42 2017 No.9689638 Bump for philosophy reading suggestions

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 22:51:42 2017 No.9689804 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 27 23:05:31 2017 No.9689843 >>9686366 Baby Rudin or Spivak

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