/lit/ - Literature

If time, space, and causality, as well as psychological, logical, and mathematical explanations of reality, are all subjective, then what's left?

>get drunk
>write a drunken pamphlet on why i hate niggers
>"edit it sober"

What philosophy classes have you taken? What were the best and the worst?

>>9718424
whilst schoppi brought us the concept of negative pessimism and set the course for nietzsche

Does anyone have an archive of the Genius page for The Waste Land? It was a great resource - as good as any secondary literature on the poem I've seen - but now it's only "hosted" on the goddawful bartleby site that is horribly unreadable. It's a fucking crime.

>>8446406

You don't. Go in the right direction instead. The true heir to Kant.

>>8404321

>2016
>Reading Hegel
>Mfw

Just get the Oxford 'Very Short Introduction' if you REALLY need to read Hegel, for whatever reason.

>Hegel

You picked the wrong heir-to-Kant.

>>8278126

>Caring about the rabble enough to give them the time of day

>MAN CAN DO WHAT HE WILLS, BUT HE CANNOT WILL WHAT HE WILLS

>>8209005

The argument you will encounter will usually be to the effect of:

>"People have always said that things are getting worse!"

And the funny thing is that in a way, those 'people' are entirely correct.

Our universe/plane of existence is one in which entropy is inbuilt, and it is therefore not unreasonable to postulate that this necessary decline will present itself even in Human affairs.

As Schopenhauer said, perhaps the Bible's only redeeming argument is that this is a fallen world, occupied by fallen beings.

For a man that was so obsessed with aesthetics, how did he reconcile the thoughts of opposing eroticism and sexuality with his views on art?

Who does /lit/ follow on twitter?

I recently found out how great of an underutilized resource it can be. Follow interesting people and you get a steady stream of material they wrote or found worth reading, plus when a noteworthy enough piece comes along, you're sure to see it. Who do you all follow? The NYRB, columnists, authors?

>3000 words on metaethics due tomorrow

>I've got nothing

Why do I always do this to myself /lit/? I feel like a predisposition to not work and stay up the night before is somehow very connected to this board or its culture. All the burnt out academics.

What've you got?

Where should i start with schopenhauer? I was assuming Will and Representation but i would like /lit/'s opinion.

help, /lit/, I need cool mononymic pseudonyms

reasonably obscure historical references on first priority, but anything interesting will do

>>6894838
It's swung back to be pro-assad (or rather anti-anti-assad) on account of the Islamic State. Regardless of some popular whims, the amount of original content and precise updates are bar none the best I've seen in any crowd-sourced journalism.

What can we do to further elitist exclusionism in /lit/?

This community is yet too tolerant of the common cry of curs.

Has /lit/ ever produced anything of actual literary work? A poem or a story that wouldn't be out of place in a journal or a class environment?


Not Tundra or Poems I wrote in Notepad shite

I suppose anything of quality would just be published independently by a /lit/erati, I know a few here are published.

>>6482002
Does this really need to be spelled out? When people like Kristol and Horowitz rejected their revolutionary socialism, they rejected it largely wholesale (expect, arguably, with regards to things like universalist foreign policy being adopted by ex-trotskyist neocons). When Fascist ex-socialists discarded their far-left influences, they intentionally kept and held in esteem concepts like industrial alienation, class struggle, unity in a state, revolutionary mass-action, etc, but rejected the socialist solution to these problems with their implicit anti-nationalism, egalitarianism, and collectivist internationalism. The difference between rejecting revolution in favor of orthodox conservatism and rejecting it in favor of fascism is one of rejecting the problems raised by the radical left as solvable on the first hand, and disagreeing with how to solve it on the second. Fascism is a right wing ideology, but it had heavy, considerable influences from the state socialist tradition.

>The petit bourgeois Social Democrat and the trade union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

>at uni
>talking to grill bout inane shit
>conversation gets to books as being a "reader" is mentioned
>ask what kind of books she reads
>"oh, mostly scifi"
>get pretty excited because scifi was my in entry point to literature and I'd recently discovered Ted Chiang. Expecting like Stranger in a Strange Land or maybe Atwood
>"Like dystopias"
>oh no, Ishiguro please salvage this
>"Have you read Divergent? Its better than the hunger games" << actual words
>visible look of abject disgust (4chan has made me a bad person)
>she notices, aware I know she noticed
>quickly changes subject like the liberal you're sharing a car ride with said something without thinking when rap came on the radio
>rest of the conversation has this awkward air about it and descends into half-sincere goodbyes
>we both know what just happened

why have you made me an asshole /lit/

Outside the SEP, what should I know/read before delving into World as Will and Representation?

>>3577311
I would agree with your plan of reading, but i would switch up the bio to first place. And i would recommend an "intro" to his philosophy. And there's a great one for that Friedrich Coplestone wrote "Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism", don't judge Coplestones work on his life, he is a very visceral when it comes to his philosophical writing.

The need for the bio would be to differentiate his thoughs from his feeling. He was a bitter, bitter man, and sometimes that reflected (notably on Fichte, Schelling and Hegel). So thats why i would recommend that. Also he has a work called "About myself" that was supposedly destroyed and saved, remade and restored along the way. I cannot say how authentic it is, but it would be a great asset to your comprehension.