/lit/ - Literature

>author is American

what are some black people books i can read to impress an ANTIFA qt with my knowledge?

>>10665060
I'm the one who needs to read Nietzsche?! You fucking people I swear to god. Nietzsche undertook the first major effort of deconstruction (geneology) and transvaluation of morals, and also interpreted social dynamics through power. He was incredibly influential on Foucault and Derrida for reasons that should be fucking obvious if you understood either

>all these idiots ITT projecting their own fake appreciation of literature

>>10652153
>I used to think it would show me the secret to happiness
thats pretty stupid anon

>>10651628
>These accounts, such as Lyotard’s, accuse the Enlightenment, Hegelian dialectics, and Marx of constructing “metanarratives” on top of an irreducibly complex reality. Peterson shares the French post-structuralists’ fear that reason lends itself to a logic of domination.
This is such a shitty attempt... implying that intersectionality isn't an offspring of multiplicities in society and neo-marxist critique of orthodox marxism is in any way like a conservative meme individualist critiquing the entire idea of collective superstructure/hegemony or atleast the idea of them being inherently negative and worth critique or deconstruction

>dismissing a thinker based on side-show obiter dictum instead of their actual ideas

Peterson is a valuable thinker in carrying on the spirit of Jung and the phenomenologists. His ideas about religion are profound. The reason people flock to him is because he actually understands religion, and in a way that few have. He's providing a psychological/phenomenological approach to religion that overcomes our previous two options of belief in a literal sky daddy and arrogant Enlightenment dismissal as "irrational".