/lit/ - Literature

95% of what he wrote is crap
the VALIS trilogy, Man in the High Castle--that's about all that's worth reading

>>10159923
i'm a tripfag
get it straight, queer

just read the fucking dialogue-poem
who even reads that sort of thing without having an idea of what its contexct was?
OP, you're a retard

>>10156153
being from Massachusetts myself I only found an interest in the transcendentalists after an encounter with German idealism. people take the concept of individualism to unfortunate ectremes around here without gibing proper thought to what is meant by things like self-reliance or authenticity. i mean every other 18-26-year-old in new england is a sartre fangirl who calls herself an 'exisdtentialist' or claims an interest in 'existentialism' but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has actuaally studied the contects political and philosophical from which existentialism arose.
so i understand where emerson is coming from, to be a good exemplar of this culture (dominated by cosmopolitcan Bostonians who treat Worcester County like an occupied territory separating them from their properly integrated colonies in the Western part of the state) you have to crib styles from elsewhere, because there's nothing but pretensiion at the heart of new england culture. our intellectual roots are puritan; our great writers have roots in puritanism; surely this is anomalous in the English language.
maybe i'm bullshitting, i'm tired and stoned. but it's hard not to crib someone else's style when you come from a culture like this one. though 200 years removed from emerson i feel the need to defend his honor.

>Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers...The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?...The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

i mean why are you trying to read a book that doesn't hold your attention for that long? why not find a book you actually like? and maybe books just aren't for you :(

>>10152700
for your sake, i hope this is b8

>>10152481
>Monadology
mah nigga

>>10151417
there's nothing to enlightern you about
i mean gee i wonder what it could be?
maybe hegel was influencved by spnioza?
yeah, that's it!@ it's probably that!
ffs it's literally that simple, your questgion was retarded--the answer is obcious

>>10151401
gee, i wonder

>>10149782
>at the very least SJWs come from a place of good
why would anyone believe this?
i mean /pol/ is shit too but why would you bother sticking up for a strawman?

>>10151252
what?

>>10151223
TAS is a dead formula. the dialectic hegel set out to describe is a living process at work on all levels of existence across all time and space, patterned on the eternal Idea

>>10148211
>stale, reused discussions that have happened a thousand times before. The very definition of a meme.
...but that's not what a meme is...?

>>10150323
You must have a very high opinion of yourself

i majored in philosophy and i fucking hate it
it's just that it constnantly preoccupies me
it opens new avenues of anxiety while closing off the old familiar ones

>>10150275
are you implying that, necessarily, that one feature MUST be responsible, that there cannot be multifarious factors contributing to this failure?
sentiments like the one you're expressing are overly simplistic, even moreso than the tankie position that commies can do no wrongs bcause commies are defined as pepole who know what is right and do it

why did you post this?

>>10148226
the gettier paper

>>10148321
>thesis-antithesis-synthesis
caesar confirmed for dumbass

>>10144953
zizekism-evolaism is the only viable ideology for the 21st century

i sincerely hope the op is b8

nobody uses the word 'matter' in that video, you're reading too much into this for the sake of a rtearded joke

wow people are calling my retarde dassertions out for what they are but their responses are jeven worse than my posts