Could someone explain Fichte's impetus (Anstoss) to me? I know there are a few Reason enjoyers on this board.

Is there a good philosophy book on fear? I really enjoyed Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death, I'm looking for something similar on specifically fear just a dialectical journey through it, that will may...

Obviously, you don’t need to say who you are, and there’s no way to confirm anons claiming to be Stephen King shitposting, but I’m curious if the mainstream industry - tradpub, MSM journos, or lit aca...

Does anyone else notice that the weird trend of people reactionary and unnecessarily close-minded and harsh towards certain storytelling elements, tropes or concepts? One of the biggest ones that I ca...

What book is this from?

>druthers

Does Brandon Sanderson deserve the hype?

WOW WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS SO FUCKING BORING

Visual and musical artists are happy to break the mold and occasionally embarrass themselves exploring new delivery vehicles for their art. But serious authors are terrified of ridicule taking even a...

>european epic >muslim invokes "macon" and "trigavaunt"

It took me a little to adjust the bizarre world, but now that i have, i'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's of course intelligent, smart, insightful, prophetic yadda yadda but more importantly the family i...

>Nooooooo, you can't abduct young men and drug them and brainwash them to become your personal army of assassins because... you just can't, OK?!

Do you like Goethe or is he overrated? In Germany he's regarded as the greatest author who has ever written in the German language.

what the fuck

What is a Platonic Form? (Define its key characteristics: perfect, eternal, unchanging, non-physical, archetypal, single, universal).

What are some books that completely dismantle and BTFO communism?

so it has been reported that ditty was reading this in court before his verdict was read do u think that's how he got so successful?

What did I thunk?

How many Lilliputian women would it have taken to give Gulliver a blowjob?

Considering the historical track record of states attempting to implement Marxist economic and social principles, which frequently led to centrally planned inefficiencies, authoritarian governance, an...

moby d'ick

I only read because I aspire to be beautiful. Post the most sublime book you got, bros. I'm talking transcendental beauty.

Who else noticed his books are kino as hell?

Hi! I'm Taylor, an MPhil candidate and early career researcher working in the Department of English, Creative Writing, & Film. Broadly, my research engages with narrative and media ecology: My Master...

The more I read about god the more I seem to understand that language fails to capture the eternal, and only silence, utter silence, can perfectly describe him.

The best living writer. Only jealous goyim would say otherwise.

Swami T makes good videos about advaita vedanta. He has short one off lessons as well as long running lecture series that enable a deeper dive into the various concepts associated with the religion. ...

Is this book good? Is he a good writer?

>'Do you know how I managed?' Napoleon later recalled of this period of his life. 'By never entering a café or going into society; by eating dry bread, and brushing my own clothes so that they might l...

Why no love for Kipling?

How can I improve my writing skills? I want to write reviews on movies/books I've consumed or just thoughts inside my head overall but I always end up with sloppy brain dump. I don't know how to do it...

What the fuck was his problem?

The Great Hall of the People thrummed with righteous fury. Red banners, emblazoned with the sacred words of the Great Helmsman, draped the walls like flames of revolution. The air was thick with the s...

I want YOU to think about thinking.

What would it be about?

>prose in American literature has been going downhill since the 50s >prose can be evocative and lucid; using nonsensical metaphors with the excuse of evoking feelings in the reader is poor writing (An...

Are there any books which talk about symmetry and explain why it is apparently ubiquitous in nature?

I found my favorite new booktuber I don't know what she says, but I can't look away

If sacred texts are believed to be the "word of God," how do we reconcile the diverse and sometimes contradictory interpretations and narratives found within different religious scriptures?

Dante isn't like Homer, Virgil, or Milton, because his poem wasn't about heroes and wars and shit.

Post great Bizantine (V-XI centuries) literature, from between late antiquity and early middle ages

ive just discovered that lib-gen is apparently down (will it come back?) just wondering where you guys are going for ebooks these days? specifically im looking for the two books old weird america by g...

>Remains to be refuted How did he do it?

>check fantasy or scifi setting (Warcraft, Halo, Warhammer, Star Wars, Dune, etc.) >check the main story, pretty cool setting and world-building >check the past eras: ULTRA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY that ma...

It’s quite insane that the three greatest authors of all time all were products of the same era. I doubt humanity will ever see writers this great ever again.

This was genuinely incredible, didn't know the Turks had it in them.

What was his fucking problem?

Is it wrong philosophically/methodologically/ethically to read this book by a khhv virgin like me?

A stellar novel and perhaps the best written fantasy in terms of style and poetic prose.

I just can’t do ebooks. I use a remarkable and loaded a bunch on there and I keep reaching for physical books. I feel like going to technology for pen and paper is such a mistake.

Which philosopher has the best physiognomy?

Is this a bot? Every time I scroll down I bump into one of these mindless iterations. There is no way some contemporary as trivial as Peterson warrants a pseudo-general for himself on /lit/

What do you think of our literature? Do you like it?

I have created a riddle based on the Borges’ story the cult of the Phoenix. This one symbol is ubiquitous and you likely are familiar with it while not giving it much thought. This symbol is very powe...

Let m’ask you sumthin /lit/, should I get the Fagles or Peter Green translations?

SHE LIVES WITH A BROKEN MAN A CRACKED POLYSTYRENE MAN

Is he worth reading?

Who was right?

Are they /lit/?

In the 2015 movie The End of the Tour about interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace after the 1996 publication of Infinite Jest, DFW stays in the room number 1094. I find it infuriatin...

Working my way through the horus heresy on audible in order, I'm currently on book 25 Mark of Calth, the last one Betrayer was amazing and also one of the most disturbing Sci fi horrors I've read. Wh...

>As a beginner writer I can confirm this >Addicted to stimulants in forms of nicotine, caffeine >Can't write without a drink or some unhealthy distraction >Depressed and lifeless and unkept >Readers ...

>The average reading speed for adults is approximately 238 words per minute (wpm) when reading silently and 183 wpm when reading aloud There is no way you niggers read this fast, this is just speedrun...

There is a tremendous violent eruption approaching Hatred and light will spew out everywhere over all the earth Less than 3 days now

Were Mole and Rat gay?

Does reading more (like 4+ hours a day) have greater benefits or is there noticeable diminishing returns after a while?

Jeez, Greene, settle down

I fucking love /lit/, I can learn so much stuff from the knowledgeable gents on here.

You cannot give me a single poem that would not work better in prose. And do not get me started on the "modernist" poets, like Eliot, who seemed content to write prose and hit the return key at random...

What does /lit/ think about Baudrillard?

Is male reading crisis real? Even if you normalize by ignoring the smut?

you simian, frottological groidform.. you rapscallion... groidic enemy of the west aberration

Evil demon child.

What do you think of Gnosticism?

Do you like it?

What are some good musician biographies are actually good? Keith Richard's autobiography is incredible. It sets the standard

It was a pretty moving read, offered some perspective, was a cool look into a time long gone but was otherwise unremarkable and had no real point. Granted, this was the first memoir I've ever read - b...

Fact: This is /lit/ Up there with Lomax's 'Mr. Jelly Roll'

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...

bros be real with me, is it true?

All agree our current linguistic devices are too impotent to capture the spirit of our age. Commas are too pert, semi-colons too pompous, en and em-dashes too short, full stops too brutal; it is time ...

What is it about emotionally open and non-traditional male characters that resonates with women writers and readers?

He's back, new video on Thomas Hobbes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLHf4RF2IHo

Emily Wilson says they are. What does that mean?

I don't get Kubla Khan It's just describing an opulent acreage, then just ends

favorite novel by Sinclair Lewis?

> this first test determines whether or not you're an NPC haha I just started this book and I like it already

Books for this feel?

Still writes better than most people on this board. His novels might be page turning slop, but it keeps the publishing industry afloat. The only critics who hate him (S.T. Joshi) hate him over style a...

Will The Secret History join the canon?

Atomic Habits was good, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck was tacky millennial garbage, and the surprising recommendation I got from here, the Enchiridion by Epictetus, has been monumentally helpful...

What's the most insufferable piece of zoomie newspeak you've been exposed to?

this story was massively fucked up compared to the other goosebumps books

>lefties are... LE BAD so this is the 9000 IQ genius you were talking about?

any books (fiction or non fiction) depicting our bleak future with AI?

are there any self help books that are actually any good? or is the genre inherently slop for finance fags and therapy chicks? discuss/drop recs

>the badge of African supremacy My sides

Why isn't he mentioned in general discussions about the Nazis?

>country is 100% white >no grooming gangs raping children >women are not sluts >everyone is employed >autists like parsons get a wife and family this was considered a "dystopia" in 1948

Who's the strongest Vampire in literature?

what are some good philosophers who combine philosophy with fringe science? also general x/occult/fringe/ufo/magic thread

any good (non fiction) books about self-harm? specially about the effect it has on one's brain

best pro-tranny books?

Do you read experimental literature? What are some experimental books you've read?

>One of the most vivid poems in existence >No one mentions it here It’s simply amazing and I feel like I’m seeing the Lamia, this beautiful man-eating beast, as I read it She was a gordian shape of ...

>be Stephen King >coked out of my skull >playing Mambo No. 5 on loop >nose bleeding, fingers flying >write *Misery* in a blur of paranoia and trumpet solos >barely remember any of it >bestseller >peop...

What does the "cave" symbolize? What aspects of human existence or reality does it represent?

What is the core idea behind the Theory of Forms? Plato posits that the physical world we perceive through our senses is imperfect and constantly changing, while ultimate reality consists of eternal, ...

Muh "have faith" I think its more of a doubt actually, you doubt your rationality >know whatever is after this life is either nothing or everything >so why would any of this matter at all >it doesnt...

moby d'ick

any recs?

How do Gnostics view Pagans?

what are some books that you really really want people to read?

Honestly sounds a bit like WittGod before WittGod. Am I wrong? Im surprised to hear that I dont think Wittgenstein even read any Nietzsche

What's the most powerful Christian book you've read that isn't part of the Bible or Church Fathers' writings?

I’m trying work on my writing and finish a fucking manuscript, but frankly I can’t even do day to day tasks without getting distracted anymore. My life and brains are an oozing pile of shit, and I can...

this thread is for poetrie. one condition, if you please: if you post, write just like me. we could talk til we are dead and get nowhere fast -- instead, demonstrate that you know things: show us all ...

What to read as a socialist in 2025?

Post your waifu /a/! >posts character Post your waifu /v/! >posts character Post your waifu /tv/! >posts character Post your waifu /lit/! >posts author Is male sexuality obligate-visual or are author...

It would seem that logical for humans to hate war and only be disgusted by it, since everyone seem to know that it is evil and source of human misery. Yet, we love it, we read about it, watch it and p...

d'ick next to d'ick

im streaming the 1981 BBC audio drama, which is, by fact, the best and most accurate adaptation of LOTR. starring Michael Hordern as Gandalf and Ian Holm (later bilbo) as Frodo. it's FANTASTIC come...

"Progression fantasy" 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, We...