/lit/ - Literature

>>19392092
>Aletheia, disclosure regarded as the opening of presence, is not yet truth. Is aletheia then less than truth? Or is it more because it first grants truth as adequatio and certitudo, because there can be no presence and presenting outside of the realm of the opening?
How am I supposed to know? Is this one of those Hegelian contradictions where they're both right?

>>18089310
Why does he have a Wagner bust in his room? I understand why he would like him, but why specifically a bust of Wagner and nobody else?

https://archive.org/details/keith-woods-whats-on-my-bookshelf

How did Greek poetry have more of a musical rhythm than other language's poetry?

>>17764762
How does this have anything to do with Cruise sacrificing his daughter?

Why does James Joyce appear when I search up "Shrill Whistles"?

>Wagner called Kundry's baptism "the finest thing I have ever done"
Was he right?

>Wagner called Kundry's baptism "the fines thing I have ever done"
Was he right?

>>16390812
So did life continue at the end of the ring(as many say), or did the leitmotif merely imply the redemption of all the Gods and existence itself?

>https://youtu.be/_5zNH6R1zsE?t=675

>>16265440
So it's a book club, or are we reading together on stream?

Why is it that so few philosophers have been able to create a poetic complexity and meaning in their work like Plato?


We had a thread yesterday about the Phaedrus and its greater plot, linguistic and syntactical meaning, as with Parmenides, and which we concluded is likely to be found in the rest of his dialogues to some similar degree of complexity.

I can only think of a handful such as Kierkegaard, and then Aristotle was said to have written a few in Plato's style, but judging from the rest of his works and how he does philosophy in them I doubt they were quite the same as Plato's. Kant does not, Fichte does not, Hegel does not, Nietzsche barely does, and Heidegger not at all. Is it something to do with the burst of knowledge which first occurs historically, and is formalised in such an encompassing way, or is it that Plato was perhaps on the cusp of the end of the famous Greek examples of that, with the presocratics, such as Heraclitus being obviously the most famous, and it was taken for granted within the context of Plato's clarity and condensing of a vast array of subjects in each work, because of them being dialogues with the stated characteristics in contrast to a poem of Parmenides or Heraclitus a treatise. The work taken as the "message" of the dialogue itself, and that is detracting from as Plato says in the Phaedrus, that the dialogue is alive, and has a life of its own. And that of course very often, as an example, the true meaning of the first part of the dialogue is only understand when going back after the second, and following the multiple casings of thought that are there.

>>16032966
Yes. Or perhaps it just gives you the tools of thought, in which case I found myself to grow smarter, but another may not.

>Farewell, well. Anon.

>>15962672
His face, why must he be smug when he is wrong?

>Homer
>Hesiod
>Aeschylus
>Ovid
>Virgil
>Nibelungenlied
>Wolfram
>Dante
>Shakespeare
>Cervantes
>Goethe
>Tolstoy
>Joyce

What do you choose?

>>15866666
>>15866751
Fuck, I didn't evens see them. Is no one noticing this??

>>15615989
>everything after the first three

>Butler, Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles or Lombardo
Which is the best translation???

Let's finally settle it.

Have atheists authors ever made generally better books than Christian authors?

What is calculus?

How many people on this board are Larouchites