/lit/ - Literature

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>>12456170
the Phenomenology is less than 500 pages by the standard Miller translation.
You can do what this anon suggests and read the preface and introduction, you will actually understand more "Hegel talk", because that's as far as most people get anyways. If you really want to understand Hegel you have to read the whole thing. If you do, you'll find you have no one to discuss it with because 98% of people never read it, and of the 2% who did, 98% of them stopped at the introduction

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Parmenidian Being, absolute a = a, although nominally true is simply trivial. The absolute is Being, but pure Being is nothingness. The coming-to-be of Being from nothingness is Becoming, a whole which holds the determinate and it's negative together in transition like the seed to the plant to bud to the flower. Being and nothing only exist in immediacy, in simplicity, Becoming sublates the two into mediation.

>>12272874
first you need to understand is that being-for-itself is always being-for-another and therefore reflection into and through itself

You don't.

Anyone else instinctively glaze their eyes over at descriptive prose about scenery? I've only really noticed this bad habit recently. Anytime the author goes into colorfully describing the background of the scene I realized I instantly start skimming for when the descriptions of how "ghost-like the trees were in the darkness" end and when dialogue begins. Looking back I must've had this habit for years, since I only recently started to find this kind of setting up of a scene interesting.

How2 un-learn myself of this weird quirk?

>>12023308
this but ironically

I genuinely don't get how people can enjoy listening to metal
I'm sure there's some level of artistry there and the guys do put in effort, but fuck, I have never in my life listened to any clip of it and had any feeling except "please turn this off"

>>11520582
he wrote the phenomenology in a month, I can forgive him it. People used to care more about his Logic, but now a days we go back to PoS because even in it's rushed, labyrinthine style, it is still that radically influential to modern thought.

>>11447546

I just hope that one day after years of starting with the greeks, resuming with the romans, etc etc I can finally participate honestly in threads like this.
(I'm still on the Iliad, and according to some I may have picked up the wrong translation of it as well)

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>>11319706
fpbp

>>11066079
It's actually fun to read if you're young (14-16). It only started to lose my attention around the Galt speech. It's easy as well as plot and moralism heavy, all of which are qualities that appeal to the idealism of youth. But I don't advise reading it if you're over 16, which, if you're posting here, you ought to be, because what was once easy becomes tedious and what was once outrageous becomes a paper thin pretext for the exposition of a half-baked pseudo-philosophy.

>>10939877
/lit/ aesthetics are the epitome of pseude. Buy cheap books and read them till they fall apart.

>>10788984
Death, as we may call that unreality, is the most terrible thing, and to keep and hold fast what is dead demands the greatest force of all. Beauty, powerless and helpless, hates understanding, because the latter exacts from it what it cannot perform. But the life of mind is not one that shuns death, and keeps clear of destruction; it endures death and in death maintains its being. It only wins to its truth when it finds itself utterly torn asunder. It is this mighty power, not by being a positive which turns away from the negative, as when we say of anything it is nothing or it is false, and, being then done with it, pass off to something else: on the contrary, mind is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and dwelling with it. This dwelling beside it is the magic power that converts the negative into being. That power is just what we spoke of above as subject, which by giving determinateness a place in its substance, cancels abstract immediacy, i.e. immediacy which merely is, and, by so doing, becomes the true substance, becomes being or immediacy that does not have mediation outside it, but is this mediation itself.
>t. still reading the preface

>>10773534
Reading an extra book every month isn't a problem by my estimate.
>>10773415
OP sometimes it's even easier to find narrators you like and try to find their catalog. Scott Brick is top notch for sci-fi. A good amount of classics have a LibriVox recording, but more modern or obscure works can be rare or non-existent.

>>10607360
Nah, you're good. Name me one good writer who wasn't fucked in the head. I'll wait.

>>10525402
>your highest level of self conciousness
That's the ego, which mediates between the demands of the superego and id. It's as if you've read almost no psychoanalytic lit.
>>10525407
The product of all systematic inquiry is a representational fiction of that inquiry's object. The super-ego is not a metaphor; It is a generalized description of one psychic motivator.