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In Viennese bookstores, the philosophy section is right next to the mathematics, hard sciences, and other subjects that are conventionally revered by society. In america, philosophy tends to be located next to religion, spirituality, self-help, and god forbid... "metaphysics" and the occult. If the bookstore DOES have anything, it's usally the same old bullshit: a Plato reader, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Heidegger, and those horrible "philosophy for the layperson" books. This is nicely complemented with the rampancy of scientism and the stem-worship, and the celebrity of people like Neil Degrasse Tyson, Dawkins, Krauss, Sam Harris, et al.

When you tell people that you are brave enough to study philosophy at the university, they always give you the same "really?" look, and ask you what youre going to do with that degree.

At first I tried to resist it, but now I realize that it is already too late, and I am a broken man.

>> No.11010456

>vienna:small individual book stores
> America: barnes and noble

Now do you get it

>> No.11010479

>>11010408
Well what ARE you doing with it?

>> No.11010482

>>11010479
semi-coherently shitposting on /lit/ apparently

>> No.11010495

>>11010408
In my local B+N, which has a huge philosophy section, is located literally adjacent to the bathrooms on an island of its own. Often when I'm browsing the philosophy shelves, I will be accompanied by that public restroom smell of stale poop and sanitizer.

>> No.11010497

America is cultural cancer and Europe should seperate itself from the US. The US is the hegemonial power, yet can anyone name some great contemporary novelists from there? All your literature is about racism, sexism and oh-im-such-a-victim. Your superficial culture is all about entertainment and immediate satisfaction of hedonistic needs.

>> No.11010503

>>11010497
>implying European culture even exists anymore
yes please cut ties with us, and keep your "progressive" ideas out of the simpleton voters heads before we become like you

>> No.11010519

>>11010456
this; at the local bookstore where I live in America, philosophy has its own section next to anthropology, history, and linguistics. It carries everything from the classics to contemporary philosophy. Spirituality and new-age books have a very small shelf that is sequestered off adjacent to Science-fiction and Horror, and Sam Harris and Dawkins are placed among various christian evangelist self help texts.

>> No.11010590

>>11010482
semi-coherent is not something to be embarrassed by on this board

>> No.11011112

>>11010408
>2018
>wearing scents

>> No.11011493
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11011493

>>11010408
>and god forbid... "metaphysics"
Metaphysics is literally a branch of philosophy

>> No.11011510

>>11011493
laughingtraditionalists.jpg

>> No.11013330

>>11010408
>brave enough to study philosophy
more like too stupid for computer science or math

>> No.11013346

Why would you not put philosophy next to theology in your book store?