/lit/ - Literature

>>14553300
holy fuck man, that is a lot of reading, and some of those books are fucking long.

t. read some plato and aristotle

>>14552266
i used to think nietzsche was an edgy faggot, then i read "the antichrist." what a great book.

>>14551881
true, but that's currently out of my budget :x

>>14551669
<3

>>14551662
savitri devi

>>14551627
the bottom left one? james mason, author of SIEGE. if you mean the guy above him, it's baudrillard.

>>14551412
>>14551556
they have a story feature on it now that i find pretty decent. taking courses at uni is probably the most helpful however, and is what im doing right now. i am going to skip over a german class because of what i learned from duolingo, so duo did indeed help.

>>14550983
being a chad, or should i say, VLAD

>>14551468
do you have a link to a pdf of sandberg?

>>14547958
how am i 100% sure that she watches bob's burgers and listens to the mountain goats?

>>14551281
>>14551279
the "truth behind symbols" correspond to different psychological and physical realities that got lost in the weeds. literally just read the introduction to "simulation and simulacra," it'll explain it better than i can. he actually argues that when you try to symbolize these truths, you begin to obscure them from that very moment, which is an interesting point.

nonetheless, the reason we must work with these symbols is because man has become so detached from his intuition that we require reference points.

>>14551207
"the whole picture" is just a phrase that means to see everything clearly.

>so you yourself are making a metanarrative
no; on the contrary, abolishing metanarratives and returning fully to intuition. i believe this is what nietzsche meant by the "superman." a man that who longer gets lost in metanarratives and functions solely on intuition.

>>14551232
so far, i've read "meditations on the peaks" (which is the best place to start), "metaphysics of war," some of revolt, some of "love and eros", and a bunch of various essays (in particular the ones on america.) i tried reading revolt when i was 19 (22 now). i had difficulty understanding it, but if you start with meditations then go to revolt, you should be fine. its probably also worth reading "sun and steel" by mishima after meditations, just to really hammer the point home, and it's also a short and amazing read.

>>14551254
based

>>14551162
>but the problem is that they end up confined within the same structure, they don't go beyond materialism, they return to the very problem they critique reification of metaphysics and human intuition
well put. they themselves are trapped within the metanarrative they are critiquing. this is why people like evola and guenon are extremely important in seeing the whole picture.

>>14551111
the symbols behind these religions correspond to certain truths that have been warped and forgotten. in "simulation and simulacra" by baudrillard (a french post-structuralist), he tells of how symbols get disconnected from their originally meaning and begin to take on a false new meaning. the traditionalists are there to rediscover what those meanings originally were.

>>14551087
i haven't heard of it before. i'll look into it. thanks fren.

>>14551009
>reactionary
>evola
try again please. evola's philosophy is fully compatible with post-structuralism; something that is clearly evident if you were to just read meditations on the peaks.

ie metanarratives that are founded upon a falsehood, such as liberalism, end up eliminating intuition from people's lives, as they make the populace recognize falsehoods as reality, thus the populace descends into hyper reality (as baudrillard put it) and that is the kali yuga/dark ages.

traditionalism to evola meant intuition.

>>14550915
look up the lyrics to any of his songs on "mechanical animals." he talks about hyper reality, the decay of the west, etc. manson is literally /ourguy/ and there is a high chance he read SIEGE.

>>14550918
you sir, just posted cringe

>>14550787
>tfw too autistic to know what expression that wojak is making

>>14550677
long story short, she has this concept of the lightning and the sun. using baudrillard's work, we can basically translate lightning into "the hyper real" and sun into "the real."

so, lightning is basically anything that works within the current metanarrative; whereas, sun is intuition. with this concept, she goes into detail on how this works within the cyclical view of history and what to expect in the coming years.

>>14550643
all of that is just fancy ways of saying "a return to intuition." he literally advocated mountain climbing so that people can get back in touch with their physical senses.

>>14550594
so do you want to point to something that makes him an ideologue or are you going to just spew garbage continuously?

>>14550554
>Evola was just an ideologue
how so? do you have anything to point to in assertion of that claim? in "meditations on the peaks," evola is very clear that he wants to do away with ideology.

>>14550531
you failed to post an argument.

also, both authors wished to tear down the current metanarrative and return to intuition.