/lit/ - Literature

>>16351453

Do philosophers even still exist? Camus' generation is basically the last I hear of when people talk about "philosophers". Unless you count richard Dawkins or Jordan Peterson as philosophers

>>16351453
>Notable ideas: Absurdism
hurrr durrr

>>16351466
>Camus' generation is basically the last I hear of when people talk about "philosophers"
those weren't even philosophers, just french socialites, and those stopped existing when burger culture btfo'd forever french culture into irrelevance

>>16351471
true
analytic philosophy in english now owns all

>>16351476
>analytic philosophy
not a thing either, those were just loser university professors leeching off science's success

>>16351453
What's with the Camus hate? Are you triggered that people enjoy an author you were forced to read in 9th grade?

>>16351471
The latter still exist, just as terrible media personalities that are friends with, or sleep with the wives of, French presidents, usually propound some neoliberal humanism.

>>16351466
Ever heard of all those scary postmodernists?

>>16351453
>Augustine
What?

>>16351488
Incorrect
Everything that science has ever achieved has been built on English-language philosophy.
Any honest scientist will admit this

>>16351496
they don't have any international influence though, except maybe this meme guy

>>16351496
>Ever heard of all those scary postmodernists?
they are not philosophers anymore though, now it's called activist or Community Organizer

>>16351466
Zizek, for better or worse.

>>16351570
he is more of a meme communist than a meme philosopher, would be unknown without his gimmick

>>16351570
The guy is a total retard, most people don't even know the what or why to any of his pseudry

>>16351640
his funny doe

>>16351453
those are the most normie influences

>>16352031
Yup

>>16351466
icycalm, but you'll get no brownie points anywhere for reading him, so most people don't. He is, however, a genuine philosopher.

>>16352319
>that shit take on video games
yeah, i'm thinking he's cringe

>>16352322
He has no shit takes, only shit readers.