/lit/ - Literature

guns germs steel, sapiens, white fragility, the list could go on.

>>17304940
what the fuck are you on about? none of those are secondary.

>>17304935
that guy in your pic related had an interesting life. when he was a kid he was driving with some friends in a nice car and someone stuck their head out the window and he had to swerve his car and she got beheaded

he was teaching uni at Duke i think even during those lectures but then got denied tenure ostensibly due to his activism (they wouldnt tell him) and then gave up on life. he became a husk of himself and died

>>17305027
Isn't that literally what happened in that movie Hereditary

>>17304935
fucking newfags

>>17304935
This is a very good secondary source on Schopenhauer.

>>17305035
IS THAT A HECKIN MOVIE REFERENCE? LMAAAAAOOOO

>>17305035
yup. rick had a half finished autobiography when he died, and his son posted a really good and brief essay on it on his fan website. this is a passage,
>I do not remember when I realized that I was lost. I knew almost all the roads around the whole county, but I had never been on this one. I slowed the ’57 Chevy down and tried to see through the light fog and rain. Rita and Tate kept putting their heads out of the car window, yelling, and letting the rain fall on them. Up ahead I saw an ancient railroad underpass and I slowed the car a bit more. I would need to turn slightly on the dirt and gravel road to make it through. When I moved the steering wheel, the car drifted some. It could not have been more than a foot or two. The ’57 did not hit the underpass, but I knew immediately that something horrible had happened. I could hear everyone screaming in an awful, inhuman way. It felt like it was raining inside the car, a flood of sticky liquid. I turned to look and Rita’s headless body was shaking like a hideous cartoon character.
like jesus fucking CHRIST

The works of F Gardner. Like Call of the Arcade, for instance.

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>>17305099
fuck, a rick roderick autobiography sounds really good. shame it wasn't finished.

>>17305114
yep but this is what happens to intelligent uni professors. they all either kill themselves outright or disappear and go postal (both ted kaczynski & fields medalist grigori perelman taught at berkeley when they decided to peace out of public life and live in the wilderness). duke literally destroyed rick roderick's life even though by that time he had filmed one of the most famous philosophy lecture series of all time and they didnt even tell him why. modern academia lol

>>17305109
I can’t read this because I cannot strand when an author finds within himself the sheer force of tyrannical willpower to turn and acknowledge that in his being he has, at least to his knowledge, been so acute in his preparation for this his full force fact of what it is he in fact is trying his best at least to the best of his ability by great strides. showing great strengths settling in an attitude of persistent progress in order to achieve, just as stated before, applying all energy too.

>>17305149
The American south is home to the most degenerated, immoral and arrogant version of the white man ever seen.

>>17304935
>/lit/ likes to recommend reading primary sources (which is good), but doesn't talk much about secondary.
That's because they're probably pretending to read.

Some secondary sources I have read recently:

Iain Gardner, The Founder of Manichaeism: Rethinking the Life of Mani, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020.
Tamsyn Barton, Ancient Astrology, Routledge, 1994.
Jon Hoover, Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism, Brill, 2007.
Mohamed M. Yunis Ali, Medieval Islamic Pragmatics: Sunni Legal Theorists' Models of Textual Communication, Routledge, 2000.
Sophia Vasalou, Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics, Oxford Univ. Press, 2016.
Robert Gleave and Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy (eds.), Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2018.
Robert Louis Wilken, The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, 2nd ed., Yale Univ. Press, 2003.
Deepak Sarma, An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta, Routledge, 2016.
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, Vintage Books, 2011.
Matthew R. Dasti and Edwin F. Bryant (eds.), Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy, Oxford Univ. Press, 2014.
Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer (eds.), Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, De Gruyter, 2013.

>>17305027
he probably didn't get tenure because he never published anything, and if you get past his folksy style and 90s pop culture references, those lectures aren't really that rigorous. college campuses are filled with communists farther left that roderick or graeber so their claims that they were denied tenure for being leftists is weak cope.

what's the best secondary source for plato?

>>17304935
Unironically? Plutarch

I like the way he singlehandedly enrages every modern autistic historian.

>>17304965
Sapiens is secondary since he didn't do any of the research himself, he just read a lot of other people's research. It is an interesting book.

>>17306726
A Companion to Plato, ed. Hugh H. Benson, or The Oxford Handbook of Plato. For emphasis on Plato's religious thought, see Plato's Gods by Gerd van Riel.

>>17306726
plotinus

>>17306745
Secondary here mean reference to a significant text or thinker. This isn't /his/