/lit/ - Literature

>>10139907

Not to appreciate it or learn something, but if you're doing a scholarly analysis, sure. I'm not the person generally answering your questions, just a passer-by with a love for K-Rock.

>>10139928

Uh-huh. I think, Kierkegaard is actually an indispensable view on the nature of our reality, from a philosophical, theological, and a literary perspective. You seem to promote math and science as an alternative to Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard, near at the opening of Works of Love says:

"If it were true, as conceited shrewdness, proud of not being deceived, thinks, that we should believe nothing that we cannot see by means of our physical eyes, then we first and foremost ought to give up believing in love."

This is one of the corner-stones of existential thought, as well of years of neurocognitive research. The mechanic of a chemical, here oxytocin, may affect but does not define. The mechanic of our perception and that which perceive are mathematical, but the underpinnings of our mind have thus far refused to comply.

>See Skinner's Behaviorist view + Operant Conditioning vs. Chomsky. Yes, Chomsky is meme tier. This argument is essentially why Chomsky became a meme. He removed Skinner's Behaviorist balls.

>>9966376

A large number of words does not indicate a large meaning. The most powerful ideas are usually those expressed most simply. Perhaps not best for literary analysis, but discounting it totally is immoderate and misguided.

Pic related is a sample of her work, I chuckled sensibly.

>>9915520

Lost. No idea who Woods is, but nothing can make you hate a person more on an intellectual level than reading them. I would do this to the Transcendentalists if I could save up enough spit.

>>6461389

>Reading that vile thing more than once.

You do understand that Kierkegaard created that character for us to hate? Understand and on some level admire, but ultimately hate?

>>6461407

Worse.

Bro, if you have to read the good word in public, read Fear and Trembling or Works of Love. Or you could have just tole her

"Either/Or, it's a rather short book about an exploration of faith. The author is a favorite of mine. Are ou reading anything yourself?"

She isn't but she'll mention something she's finished or a book related to your own. Be less of the underground man.

>>6435701

Oh, so THIS is how scientology got started.

>>6390394

I can't believe I saved it, but here it is.

Dostoyevsky, Hemingway and Kierkegaard are my top three.

>tfw knight of faith aspirant

I don't get it.