/lit/ - Literature

>>18159861
This is a good philosophical basis for pomo/absurdist art

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fellow philosophychads, is this book worth reading?

Why is pic related never discussed on here? Or Sartre in general?

Is Sartre's 800 page tome worth reading? I have never even attempted a philosophical work this long but I have long had an interest in existentialism.

I have read Camus, Nietzsche, and Stirner, as well as Sartre's Nausea and No-Exit. Is there still something to gain here?

posting this here not only because it is a good old-fashioned Fringe Manifesto but also because Bryce was apparently a big deal back in the NRx days, who has now resurrected himself with new and interesting things to say. now he seems to identify with trans stuff? and yet he's still NRx? i don't know what any of this means.

i haven't read this yet, although i will at some point. i actually *did* read his Neoreaction book in 2015 or thereabouts, and thought it was okay-ish, altho i was pretty much learning about all of this stuff for the first time, so there was a kind of honeymoon phase with it. you guys might get a kick out of this. there is no doubt that brooding upon Wat Is Meme can take you far afield indeed.

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>but even here capital can incorporate the superhuman, becoming its own transcendence, proposing its own mystical theology to subsume the last vestiges of humanity existing outside the capital circuit; but maybe that is the redemption of capital as well, to realize the best of us
hm

no year(s) will ever be as interesting for me philosophically or politically than 2015-2016 but there are still interesting things coming down the pipe i suspect. generally i think it's good to noodle around with ideologies and they are to some degree inescapable, but the interesting stuff tends not to get boxed in by the modal verbs Must and Should before they know what the fuck they are actually saying.

also i am enjoying reading this and finding the spot for Sartre also on the Wild Ride. when things get too crazy in the modern world it's cozy to go back and think about the good old days.

>>12656407
cheers m8, listening to that one right now. hearing PO's voice is...not what i expected.

>>12656419
German Idealism complete! well done anon. i haven't read Mitchell's translation of Job but i've also very much enjoyed reading his translation of the Gita also, and those translation of TTC are some of my favorites also.

apropos of nothing i'm going to take the Sartrepill for the rest of the day, will almost certainly be back to rant about him in a subsequent thread.

Alright /lit/

I'm about 200 pages into pic related and it's giving me quite the challenge. However, it is very enjoyable and I am able to grasp most of the key points, but I want to make sure about this: Can one of you fine scholars explain to me the difference between "Being in-itself" and "Being for-itself"?

I've tried looking online but the explanations are even more confusing than Sartres' work.

What is your opinion on this shit? I'm about 100 pages in. I am enjoying it, although it is quite dense and rather "heady." How do you view existentialism? Important or completely worthless?

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Will reading this be a waste of time?