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Is anyone familiar with American Book Review? I'd really love to access one of their backlog issues, they got digital issues but only on project Muse which you can only access if you're in partnered university. Like you can't even buy Access, wtf? Don't they like money or am I missing something
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Kant is also awful to read and lucid enough that secondary literature is usually sufficient for getting the gist of his arguments no idea how vital that is to Schopenhauer, but I'd do almost anything to avoid having to read Kant or Hegel
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On this topic I'm gonna be reading Heidegger soon, did he write anything short and good to put on the list besides Being and Time? e: I'll note there's a dedicated philosophy thread for questions about these authors.
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schopenhauer owns uncontrollably bc he wrote things like thisSchopenhauer posted:For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. quote:That the most perfect manifestation of the will to live represented by the human organism, with its incomparably ingenious and complicated machinery, must crumble to dust and its whole essence and all its striving be palpably given over at last to annihilation - that is nature's unambiguous declaration that all the striving of the will is essentially vain. quote:We begin in the madness of carnal desire and the transport of voluptuousness; we end in the dissolution of all our parts and the musty stench of corpses. quote:If, having taken stock of human wickedness...you feel a sense of horror at it, you should straight away turn your eyes to the misery of human existence. Then you will see that they balance on another; you will become aware of the existence of an eternal justice; that the world itself is its own universal Last Judgment, and you will begin to understand why everything that lives must atone for its existence, first by living and then by dying.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:schopenhauer owns uncontrollably bc he wrote things like this He's history's grumpiest Gus. It's funny to me to imagine him writing this stuff scowling out the window with his cat on his lap.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:schopenhauer owns uncontrollably bc he wrote things like this Badass
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quote:People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other. Fundamentally it was not Schopenhauer's head that determined his thought, but Schopenhauer's dog. It was not the head that hated Schopenhauer's world, but Schopenhauer's dog. I don't have to be demented to assert that Schopenhauer had a dog on his shoulders and not a head.
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Oct 2, 2017 20:54
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is that Thomas Bernhard? if it isn't it reads exactly like him lol.
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david crosby posted:is that Thomas Bernhard? if it isn't it reads exactly like him lol. it is
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Oct 3, 2017 03:45
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What's that bernhard bit against quotations
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Oct 3, 2017 07:39
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whats the best way to read the ramayana and mahabharata?
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fridge corn posted:whats the best way to read the ramayana and mahabharata? very carefully
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fridge corn posted:whats the best way to read the ramayana and mahabharata? start on the first page, friend
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dont even bother if you're not reading it in the original Latin
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So I am reading this book that was described to me as Faulkner with river-monsters and as the 100 Years of Solitude of Paperback Horror novels and I thought those were ridiculous statements so I found a copy and holy poo poo its actually Faulkner with river-monsters.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:So I am reading this book that was described to me as Faulkner with river-monsters and as the 100 Years of Solitude of Paperback Horror novels and I thought those were ridiculous statements so I found a copy and holy poo poo its actually Faulkner with river-monsters. Isn't that by the dude who wrote Beetlejuice? It sounds cool.
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Franchescanado posted:Isn't that by the dude who wrote Beetlejuice? yup
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Ras Het posted:very carefully ulvir posted:start on the first page, friend i was wondering if there was a preferred translation or maybe please don't troll me in this difficult time thanks
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I just finished catch 22. it was good. what should I read next?
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i heard that the Beetlejuice movie we all know was like, agressively re-written so I guess this Faulkner w/ river monsters might be weird, although it decidedly is not literature.
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fridge corn posted:i was wondering if there was a preferred translation or maybe please don't troll me in this difficult time thanks Apparently this one is the first English translation of the ramayana to use the critical edition, although i don't really know that much about sanskrit epics so this isn't an ironclad recommendation or anything: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1040.html
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Mr. Squishy posted:i heard that the Beetlejuice movie we all know was like, agressively re-written so I guess this Faulkner w/ river monsters might be weird, although it decidedly is not literature. Based on?
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the river monsters.
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Oct 4, 2017 13:33
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Mr. Squishy posted:the river monsters. seems an arbitrary boundary
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Oct 4, 2017 13:41
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Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary, as the old judge said to another.
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Oct 4, 2017 13:57
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did a couple le carre novels which were v good, and now i'm on great expectations. my first dickens ! ! its funny and enjoyable
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Mel Mudkiper posted:seems an arbitrary boundary Though it opens up a question of whether The Essex Serpent is literature.
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derp posted:did a couple le carre novels which were v good, no one le carres
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Mel Mudkiper posted:no one le carres your mom did when she came in from the cold last night
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derp posted:your mom did when she came in from the cold last night She was lonely because your mom was already with the Tinker, the Tailor, the Soldier, and the Spy
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Mel Mudkiper posted:She was lonely because your mom was already with the Tinker, the Tailor, the Soldier, and the Spy Sounds like a deadly affair
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god drat you people are unfunny
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Officer Sandvich posted:god drat you people are unfunny That's not what I'd call a delicate truth.
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Officer Sandvich posted:god drat you people are unfunny
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I'm reading Libra by Don DeLillo. I think this might be my favourite book by him. Maybe because they are real people (or "real people") and not like philosophical archetypes and so the characters and dialogue feel a lot more natural and therefore interesting? Who knows. It has been a while since I read him last, in any case. On another note, anyone have favourites for who will win the Nobel Prize this year?
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thehoodie posted:I'm reading Libra by Don DeLillo. I think this might be my favourite book by him. Maybe because they are real people (or "real people") and not like philosophical archetypes and so the characters and dialogue feel a lot more natural and therefore interesting? Who knows. It has been a while since I read him last, in any case. Oh cool, I just picked up Libra too. Always thought the way DeLillo wrote dialogue was atrocious so this makes me happy. Also, some Asian dude.
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Libra was probably my favorite DeLillo as well. I liked White Noise too, but his writing for those kid characters was awfully artificial at times. I read Underworld a long time back as well. I wasn't a huge fan of the book as a whole, but that first chapter is probably the best thing he's written.
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i will lol irl if atwood really wins as the signs seem to point
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no lols this year, just a boring dude winning the award
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At least it wasn't a Paul or a Phil
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