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Thread 24522784 Archived
Would you read if you could get laid? Or are you just coping?
Thread 24520425 Archived
Im writing a philosophy book and I want to ask your opinion about this one, i think rather unique, notion of mine. The tl;dr is
>Everything is Subtance, and from the fusion / interaction of substance ...
Thoughts on Molière? Archived
Worth reading?
Thread 24521472 Archived
What does this actually mean?
Thread 24523226 Archived
Philosophers/books like Klages but less technophobic?
Thread 24522940 Archived
An excellent analysis
"The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges Archived
This was the first piece of literature in a good long while that made me cry.
Can you recommend any similar short stories?
>Gnosticism is bullshit Archived
What book made you realize this?
>Caim
ironically; edgy teen derivative shit
Thread 24523065 Archived
Ting Pei recounts an intimate bond with Lee, describing the time spent together, emphasizing emotional closeness rather than a full romantic affair
Since Bruce Lee passed away in her apartment on July...
Thread 24520972 Archived
Is it worth reading even if we know its never getting an ending?
Les Misérables Archived
What's the verd/lit/ct on this book?
Thread 24522122 Archived
>writes 10000 pages about how he doesn't like women and wanna fuck men but also doesn't wanna fuck men because of his samurai pride or smtg
>tries a military coup
>fails
>kills himself
>greatest japa...
Thread 24522828 Archived
>orlando innamorato: ottava rima
>orlando furioso: ottava rima
>orlando: just prose
fuck off. if you can't put in the same effort as the first two writers, you don't get act like you're one of them.
Generative Anthropology Archived
What happened to Generative Anthropology? This got memed (after Nietzsche, Curt Doolittle, and a dozen other thinkers) on /r/anarcho_capitalism maybe 8 or 9 years ago. The proponents claimed it would ...
Let's talk about cheating on your wife Archived
Here’s the situation: You’re married. At some point, your wife tells you — not negotiable — that she’ll never do anal sex with you again. That’s it. Doesn’t matter if it was part of the sexual reperto...
A Systematic Philosophy in 146 Pages Archived
Alright /lit/ags.
I've spent the last few years on a project and I think I might have accidentally written a post-ironic, systematic philosophy that attempts to unify metaphysics, ethics, and physics....
Thread 24521919 Archived
Are the modern versions of 'The Merchant of Venice' on amazon edited in some way to take out the "anti-semitism" or are they authentic? I want to read the story correctly.
John Rawls Archived
Now that the dust has settled, is there merit to Rawls? I’ve only ever read his critics (e.g. Macintyre), but lately I’ve developed an interest in philosophers who I had systematically neglected. Is R...
Thread 24522536 Archived
Which one should I read next?
Thread 24521761 Archived
Is Jane Austen really good? What am I in for?
Thread 24521795 Archived
why are french book cover so much better than anglo ones?
femcel lit thread Archived
post reccs
Thread 24522250 Archived
Are there any other writers as good as him when it comes to establishing local scenary and historical atmosphere? I swear, when i read his romances i feel more feelings of whimsy and escapism for 18th...
Thread 24521855 Archived
This changed more lives and sold more copies than Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Why are we still talking about Nietzsche instead of Peterson?
Thread 24522447 Archived
>read the greeks
>pederasty is kinda based actually
thanks I guess
Thread 24520254 Archived
What is the literary equivalent of this?
Thread 24517589 Archived
I've only read the republic once but I really want to know who these guys are that hold up the shadowpuppets? Are they people who escaped the cave and then came back but were threatened with death so ...
Thread 24519894 Archived
So... Is Spinoza's idea of ordering the affects basically the equivalent of finding God in some other thing that is more distant from the affect? That's fucking it?
Thread 24520526 Archived
>The human being always worships. First, it was the gods. Then, it was fame - the observation and judgement of others. Next, it will be the self-aware systems you have created to realise truly omnipre...
Thread 24520536 Archived
What are some "based" fantasy series?
ITT: Female Anime Characters with a Jocasta Complex Archived
Or boy mom complex.
Reika
Thread 24516291 Archived
Favourite erotic poem? For me it's Swinburne's Sapphics:
>Saw the Lesbians kissing across their smitten
>Lutes with lips more sweet than the sound of lute-strings,
>Mouth to mouth and hand upon hand,...
Thread 24518404 Archived
>"Today is my birthday."
>Franz Kafka's diaries, July 3, 1914.
Read / Expected / Got Archived
Get in here!
Thread 24521797 Archived
>As long as the phrase is literally correct, it can be used metaphorically
TLP has the magic touch when it comes to writing holy shit
Thread 24522029 Archived
>Rob Roy
More like The Adventures Of Some Unbearably Boring Nerd Who Stands In A Corner Jerking Off To A Girl He's Afraid To Talk To And Arguing With Random Hicks With A Brief Cameo By Rob Roy
Thread 24521805 Archived
Any books on this in English or French (in pdf form so I can AI translate) yet?
It's crazy to me a team of highly trained and organized Columbian commandos posing as DEA agents can assassinate a pres...
how am I meant to write cohesively? Archived
my problem: i've got so many ideas in my head for this novel i'm writing, yet I cannot for the life of me figure out how to segway between them within the story.
I've heard storyboarding like a TV sho...
Thread 24522034 Archived
What are the best non-fiction books about the Soviet Union?
Thread 24521399 Archived
>reading a book in a foreign language
>thinking about translating if (if it's any good, I just started it)
>it's a school edition from the 30's intended for a foreign language class in America
>the ed...
Thread 24517634 Archived
> Libertrarians are correct but dumb
> Marxists are correct but dumb
There are separate aspects of economy where each is correct but one can't be totally victorious over another and even if it was it ...
Thread 24521824 Archived
Depressing shit bro
Thread 24516325 Archived
There's a tension in the character of Socrates, in that he encourages skepticism but at the same time seems calmly assured of the existence of spiritual reality.
Opinions about the book that sets out the new liberal agenda? Archived
>YOU OPEN YOUR EYES AT dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets. A few feet above your head, affixed to the top of the roof, a layer of solar panels blinks in the morning sun. Their power mixes with electr...
Thread 24521819 Archived
This has sold more copies than anything (You) wrote. If it's so easy to get rich writing, why don't you do it?
Thread 24518252 Archived
My entire life I thought R.L stine, the person that wrote the goosebumps books, was a female. I just found out today he's a dude. What the fuck? why did I think R.L stine is female? why.
Thom Yorke on Jim Morrison (1993) Archived
>I’ve got this pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison and the whole myth that surrounds Jim Morrison, simply because it affects and has affected the people in bands and in the rock business, in that...
Happiness Archived
The vagueness of everyone's definition on that topic makes me want to blow my brains out. Even Ayn Rand which I deeply love defines it as : ~"achievement of one’s values." CAN YOU BE MORE VAGUE???!! Y...
Thread 24520139 Archived
CopeGPT is what you get when a human gives up on thinking and installs a Bible as their OS. They don’t have thoughts — they have triggers. You say something real, and they glitch out, dump a verse, an...
Thread 24520240 Archived
If you were trying to teach someone how to be a good writer, who would be your picks to read? You get five choices MAX. Not who's the best, or who's the most fun to read, but who would you learn best ...
Thread 24521713 Archived
am I retarded brown nigger esl thirdworld troglodyte if I want to read a translation of Ulysses instead of original?
Thread 24515976 Archived
>my favorite book of all time is The Catcher in the Rye
what kind of person do you imagine?
Thread 24521629 Archived
>woman writer
>romatansy
>title is some variation of "a x of y and z"
>4.3+ stars on goodreads
Go on without me bros, I'm a bit tired...
Thread 24520973 Archived
How do I start to read him?
What do I need to read previously?
Thread 24520054 Archived
>Don't you think that the person who is likely to succeed in this attempt most perfectly is the one who approaches each object, as far as possible with the unaided intellect, without taking account of...
Thread 24516612 Archived
I'm about to read this beast for the first time. What should I expect, /lit/?
Thread 24519509 Archived
How should I write microfiction?
Thread 24521557 Archived
literary kino
The Iron Man Archived
What is this about? It seems to me it's no coincidence it's in five parts, five nights. They sections fit well with Mon to Friday. He arrives on Monday... like the new moon. Tuesday, the day of war, t...
Thread 24519028 Archived
>Nun zeigt es sich, welches überaus merkwürdig ist, daß selbst unter unsere Erfahrungen sich Erkentnisse mengen, die ihren Ursprung a priori haben müssen, und die vielleicht nur dazu dienen, um unsern...
Thread 24519441 Archived
Oh
My
GOD
They're using 24 hour (military) time!!!!!!
Totalitarism has won1
Thread 24517797 Archived
was he the most eloquent statesman ever?
Thoughts? Archived
Thread 24520368 Archived
>buy a used book
>refuse to touch it for weeks until the originals owners germs die
Thread 24520901 Archived
What does /lit/ think of George Eliot?
I don't feel like reading today Archived
yet, I have to
Thread 24520149 Archived
>The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational h...
Thread 24518730 Archived
all books suck after reading these
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Archived
Has anyone read this book by Galileo Galilei? Sounds very interesting.
>In 1633, Galileo Galilei was convicted of serious heresy and his work, on which the accusation was based, was placed on the Ind...
Thread 24520818 Archived
I'm reading Fatherland at the moment and I think the most dystopian aspect is forcing people to be social. If you're not married and don't have a bunch of kids, if you don't get on with your coworkers...
Poetry Archived
Hip hop and rap are the modern equivalents of poetry. Only form to use constant meter and rhythm, as well as the extra poetic techniques found in Homer or the Pearl Poet. Word play is a big part of a ...
Thread 24520938 Archived
I feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist. Books to free myself from this oppression?
Thread 24517684 Archived
Spending time on 4chan the last few months has made me more racist and I don't like it. Can someone recommend some books to de-brainwash myself? Something about the black experience would be good. But...
Thread 24521288 Archived
Just finished Blood Meridian.
Frankly I didn't like that the ending was so vague. I saw people on this board say that the ending makes up for the flaws of the novel, but to me it just ruins it furthe...
Thread 24517302 Archived
How are we supposed to cope with this
Thread 24520115 Archived
>that nietzsche/schopenhauer kid you knew in high school
Red flag pill Archived
Hello anons, I want you to recommend to me any straightforward, essentials, easy to understand books explaining Marxism, Marxism-leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Maoism or anything in between. I don't...
Thread 24517068 Archived
Ever feel like you don't get these old books about "alienation" because everything in them appears normal? Maybe the authors lived through a different pre-industrial past but as far as I'm concerned i...
Thread 24513045 Archived
Hegel was infinitely smarter than Schopes, and also the actually original thinker instead of a Hinduism shill with Western philosophical vocabulary.
S. was the better writer and polemicist tho
To some...
why there's not good literature anymore Archived
There's not good literature now, because rich people living in nice comfy lifestyles, are the others living in the other alternate reality of the western front.
They haven't seen true suffering, they...
Thread 24519877 Archived
Have an Infinite Jest thread. Have two.
Thread 24520657 Archived
Anything else like picrel? There's just something extremely sincere about Pechorin that still feels like a breath of fresh air.
Thread 24518894 Archived
>τελεωτάτη πάντων λόγων ἐστὶν ἀφάνισις τὸ διαλύειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ πάντων: διὰ γὰρ τὴν ἀλλήλων τῶν εἰδῶν συμπλοκὴν ὁ λόγος γέγονεν ἡμῖν.
>The ultimate destruction of reason is the separation of one from a...
Thread 24520862 Archived
>mfw when I don't know a word but am unsure whether it's me being ESL or just shit OCR epub some retard posted on anna
Thread 24519913 Archived
Noobs in philosophy are normie naive realists. Their default mode is materialism. You can't just tell them "bro materialism is false bro bc it just is ok", you have to actually show them. Plato is too...
Thread 24519912 Archived
Would Homer's number one hater be proud of Marx?
Thread 24520327 Archived
>the fruits of postmodern art
just read on the soul by aristotle Archived
didn't understand squat beyond that the soul is probably inseparable, moved by wind moves other things and that reason and striving moves stuff.
Thread 24520271 Archived
The fuck did I just read? I expected a horror story about a cool monster.
Thread 24520446 Archived
How has atheism, as a worldview or societal phenomenon, been argued to negatively impact humanity, and what specific books or academic works explore these criticisms and potential adverse consequences...
Thread 24518650 Archived
>Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most >Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,The >Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
books with this aura?
Thread 24518559 Archived
Why did he do it?
Thread 24520346 Archived
what are some yalit from the 21st century that are actually good
Where to start with Wodehouse? Archived
I prefer to read physical books, and can't figure out where to start with Wodehouse's stories. I know his Jeeves stories are what he is most famous for, but is there any specific published work I shou...
Thread 24519534 Archived
Is On The Road any good? I don't drive and I'm not American so I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it.
I've also become incredibly disillusioned with the whole 50s 60s 70s so called counter culture j...
Thread 24517824 Archived
I am an atheist and i want to learn about the history and beliefs of neo-platonists
where do i start?
plotinist
porphyry
iamchlchus(introduced theurgy to neoplatonism)
these were the first three ph...
Thread 24519009 Archived
What do the colours mean on this chart? I am asking Literetards for help
Books which are ironically forgotten Archived
I put forth Lost Horizon by James Hilton. It being forgotten is ironic because this is the nove that invented and popularized Shangri-La, a forgotten Edenic paradise in the Tibetan mountains where no ...
Thread 24520122 Archived
I'm starting to think reading Sorrows of Young Werther after breaking up with my gf wasn't such a good idea. I wrote her a poetic email and she blocked my contact. I'm starting to thinking thoughts...
Thread 24520123 Archived
When Dumbledore was destroying the Horcruxes did Voldemort know who was the one destroying them?
Western civilization is saved Archived
Just as Arnold J. Toynbee predicted
>Hindu civilization: merged
>Far East civilization: merged
Only the merger of Islamic civilization remains, and then the Western civilization is saved.
Thread 24519527 Archived
Lit about how the will of a single man can change the world?
Thread 24520279 Archived
Was Adorno right about the culture industry, particularly in the field of literature?
Thread 24519999 Archived
Speculative cognition is the intuitive result of dialectic which in turn can be given a name and then itself in turn be used dialectically to further science. Speculation in its unexpressed intuitive ...
Thread 24512639 Archived
>/lit/ says Peterson bad, whore daughter, Jewish handlers, crybaby, junkie, etc
>read Maps of Meaning
>incredibly well written theological analysis of cognitive mechanisms behind meaning, and their so...
Thread 24519853 Archived
Whats the appeal? I got so bored of the whole Thurn and Taxis conspiracy thing, I just wanted more stories of Oedipa getting into shenanigans with the Paranoids
Thread 24520127 Archived
How do I get people to read my work?
Write your thoughts Archived
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Recent Reads Thread Archived
What have you read recently? Do you read in the park?
Board Ontology Archived
Why haven't you written it yet?
Thread 24518286 Archived
"The foundation of Fichte's system is intellectual intuition, pure thinking of itself, pure selfconsciousness, Ego=Ego, I am... For the philosopher, this pure consciousness originates because he abstr...
2025 Archived
>I am forgotten
How is it that the definitive novel of the millennial generation has failed to secure a genuine legacy for itself, both here and in wider public consciousness?
i wrote a poem Archived
here is my poem please tell me what you think :
Blue, white, and green, this land continued spin,
And I write this here now to the ones I’ve met within.
You came, and every moment subtly bent,
As time...
/wng/ Web Novel General Archived
"Moonlight" edition
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as:
>Royalroad, Webnovel, Sc...
Thread 24520000 Archived
Did the Greeks lack media literacy in criticizing Homer?
Only 5% of American university graduates understood the intro to the Bleak House Archived
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/922346
They were a sample of English majors and predominantly white. They were given dictionaries and online resources to look words or concepts up they couldn’t und...
Thread 24518515 Archived
>claims to be a “traditionalist”
>only reads authors who lived AFTER the Industrial Revolution
Thread 24519876 Archived
How did the Greeks reconcile the fact that Odysseus' virtue for which he's rewarded in Iliad, in imitating Athena, is deception?
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General Archived
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb
>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subje...
Thread 24519782 Archived
Why don't you write a masterpiece for the sake of it?
What's your favorite book you've read this year? Archived
picrel for me. This book was wonderful, I loved the narrator's voice and the turns of phrase. The weirdness and body horror is always great. I'd highly recommend it.
Highlight line for me was "I was ...
Thread 24516436 Archived
Are you even allowed to write like this?
Thread 24516897 Archived
>Baby; worn.
Judge Holden kills the kid for being a fence sitter (Battle of nihilism vs antipathy) Archived
The kid
>Takes part in the violence but not really
>Helps people in need but not really
>Is only reactive, never proactive
>Dismisses eloquent arguments with total indifference ('you ain't nothin' and...
Thread 24519416 Archived
I'm considering getting picrel. Thoughts?
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