/lit/ - Literature

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>I started reading the first 10 pages of 'Thinking Fast and Slow' at one point. Didn't draw any connection to philosphical thinking. Is it worth looking back into it?
pretty sure that i'm that guy. i can qualify that remark: Kahneman is a smart guy and i'm a fucking nobody, but...i've never really felt so much of a connection to that book, maybe it's just not written in the register that i like or with the existential references and name-drops required to get me to take a thing seriously (read: indulge my own fabulously overwrought narcissism).

put another way, i prefer to get what i imagine to be to the same conclusions by Thinking Fast with Land and Thinking Slow with Heidegger and then kind of dwelling somewhere in between with Girard, Lacan, Hegel, whoever else. too pragmatic and i lose interest, too philosophical and i...well, i become myself, and i schizo-ramble.

it's worth looking into it if you think it is, but it's never really been one of those books that i reference as go-to/must read/run don't walk kind of things. even if in the end Kahneman probably can say everything i need to say and better, in his own way...

there is a narrow and blurry split between philosophy and psych, and i skew heavily on the philosophy side, partly because it's a story that has a kind of continuity i like, and also because has the kind of grandeur and scale i need to take things seriously, because some crucial part of me is no doubt locked into an adolescent thirst for Unironic Meaning that keeps me repeating myself ad nauseam ad infinitum and being hysterical. even if i think that in some way so is everybody else, and in the absence of scratching where things itch people are going to continue to blow themselves up hysterically...

so yeah, i can't say i have ringing endorsements for Kahneman's book, only that it might appeal to you if you are looking for psych. have you read Being and Time? D&R? Hegel? Less Than Nothing? Symbolic Exchange and Death? Passion of the Western Mind? there are other books out there which are imho way, way more fun to read.

don't read anything that is boring the fuck out of you is kind of my sense as usual. true, it may lead you into schizo-dilettantism...but i don't really worry too much about that anymore.