/lit/ - Literature

I want to become knowledgeable on political theory and political philosophy.
Where do I begin?
What are the most Important works on politics?
Which ones have you read that you actually ENJOYED the most?

>>15678673
animal farm also by Orwell is good and only about 100 pages, very easy to read. all quiet along the western front is easy to read too. i am sure someone here has a /lit/ approved chart of books for new readers
>>15678891
easy fiction like 1984 is fine for a new reader. they should start good simple books to exercise their reading habit and ability like a muscle.

Thank you based hegel anon

Thank you fren these are very good

What's the real difference between Dasein and the cogito? Aren't they both defined by their reflexivity?

What happens if you die before you achieve gnosis? Reincarnation?

could someone explain hegel for a brainlet?

all I know is that he's absurdly obtuse and complicated

Do most TERFs hate trannies because of objective morality or because they hate everything that resembles men?

Yurobros, which forest am I least likely to find people and more importantly cops in? My country is too small for me to live away from civilization

I don't wanna catch a plane to the US, SA or China just to live inawoods

>>15477068
Your turn op

PS: I think my dad loves me more than my mom

>>15468411
>quixote is satire
>one hundred years of solitude is soulless
Wow

>>15451507
>buying books

why is everyone saying "read his English works first this one is a shitty translation" when Nabokov did the translation himself with his son? It might as well have been written in English

yes but stop asking us our opinions on things not /lit/ related thanks

I liked it

Made me remember some girls I really liked, and some men I desperately tried not to be like

>>15381303
why do people who never read love to post here

>>15365157
>a woman as beautiful as her
you're exaggerating

Why is the Iliad's name 'Iliad'?

Are PUA philosophers?

Just want to say that I majored in English at an Ivy for undergrad and people on /lit/ are legitimately more knowledgeable than me and my classmates. I never met anyone who'd read Gaddis, Rulfo, Tolstoy, Pynchon, or almost any Greek plays. Thanks /lit/ for introducing me to lots of stuff my professors and fellow students never did :^)

I'm a European whose travelling to Nebraska later this year for university. What are some books to help me understand the culture, history and spirit of this state and the Great Plains in general?

>>15235008
>good for the brain

What's the best way of reading the Bible?

>>15212635
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