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Why do they do it?

>> No.15602043

>>15601996
what do you mean? your academic life doesn't need to be your WHOLE life
a job isn't a personality
a academic choice isn't a personality
a carrier isn't a personality

>> No.15602053

Tenure, bitch!!!

>> No.15602062

>>15602043
But why would you choose to study or teach something you don't even enjoy, or at least don't enjoy as much as something else, when you could choose the thing you enjoy most?

>> No.15602115

>>15602062
He didn't say he didn't enjoy Faulkner. Perhaps he liked Faulkner the most in his youth and changed his mind at age 45.

>> No.15602117

>>15601996
what a stupid cringe tweet. he probably hates faulkner at that point in his life

>> No.15602125

>>15601996
i imagine if i analyzed my favorite author's work to the point of making a career out of it and publishing books about it i would hate them too

>> No.15602131
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15602131

>>15602115
and what about this lad?

>> No.15602143

>>15602062
As you suggested, he didn't say he didn't enjoy Faulkner. He said Faulkner wasn't his favorite. Maybe Faulkner is second best. Maybe his favorite author is Raymond Chandler, but he felt Faulkner would be a better author on which to base an academic career. Maybe he likes Shakespeare better but has less interesting things to say about him. Maybe after decades of teaching Faulkner, he's grown tired of him. There's a million potential explanations. I don't think it's that odd.

>> No.15602172

>>15602062
Well, I made academic texts about authors that I like but not about my ALL TIME FAVORITE AUTHOR (till now). You don't need to make an academic life about your extremes.

>> No.15602179

>>15602131
That's his fault for studying philosophy and getting a PhD in it expecting to earn money. Should've gone STEM and studied philosophy as a hobby.

>> No.15602183

>>15602131

You should never major in philosophy in the US, unless you conform to popular areas of interest (analytic math/logic or Nietzsche, Plato Kant, etc etc)

>> No.15602197

>>15601996
Guys, today I totally asked a construction worker if construction is his favorite thing to do. He said "no."

>> No.15602209

>>15602183

Are you implying that it's possible to not conform to math/logic? That's kind of hilarious.

>> No.15602214

>>15602209

What??? I meant specializing in the analytic tradition.

>> No.15602216

Reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk

>> No.15602218

>>15602131
>biography rejected several dozen times
>doesn't start his own publishing company/ release it for free via the dot coms
>PhD in philosophy and thinks debt matters

>> No.15602227

>>15602197
Underrated.

>> No.15602236

>>15602214

Then you should have said that. Or do you also not conform to the basics of written communication?

>> No.15602278

>>15602131
It's his fault for studying one of the irrelevant, transitory philosophers. Husserl is in the same category as Fichte or Engels, one of those guys who shows up exclusively as a footnote or addendum.

>> No.15602301

>>15602236
you have autism problems

>> No.15602303

Why do millennials put a comma there?

>> No.15602305

>>15601996
My favorite book is the Commedia.

Why would I ever write about it, though? Do I have anything to say that wasn't already said by Dante himself, Dante's own son, Boccaccio, De Sanctis, Momigliano, Croce, Eco, Mandelstam, Pound, Eliot, Borges, Bloom, Steiner, and so many others?

You write a book about subjects on which you have something to say.

>> No.15602306

>>15602062
Because you can enjoy it a whole lot even if it isn't your favourite thing, or find it more interesting or appropriate to study than your first favouritest thing ever.
Fucking retards. Most of literature is boring crap, historically speaking. Last year, for example, I wrote an essay on Russian classicism. It's fucking boring, the most influential writers of the period were actually just poor imitators of Frenchmen. Yet, it's interesting to explore and learn about, to see how they were trying to create something greater, how they were discussing and criticising each other, adapting, making mistakes, etc. In the end, there appeared a Pushkin who grew up surrounded by these dull standards and which he rebelled against, and to understand Pushkin fully, it is also useful to understand that which he and his generation were against. Somebody has to study this seemingly boring stuff too. Hell, this board tells people to start with the Greeks and read Aristotle. Is Aristotle aesthetically pleasureable? Not at all - the pleasure you get while reading him is the pleasure of acquiring knowledge by itself. Similarly, there's pleasure even in the seemingly most boring fields, if the scholar is not himself boring. And Faulkner is sure as fuck not a boring field.

>>15602131
I'm pretty sure that's a shitpost, dude. Biographies of philosophers are nearly irrelevant, and on the other hand Husserl is definitely not a figure that's usually deemed irrelevant.

>> No.15602313

>>15602278
Maybe he rused himself into thinking he was onto something.
>I need to pick a philosopher to really focus on, but also someone who hasn't been written about to death
>Huh, this Husserl guy is fairly prolific and was important in his time, but nobody has really written about him the same way they have Kant
>Daddy found his meal ticket.

>> No.15602318 [DELETED] 

>>15602278
it's ok he deserves to suffer for rebelling against the analytic golden age
the oxford tradition must rule the world

>> No.15602343 [DELETED] 

>>15602313
>focusing on a philosopher like a history nerd
>not focusing on a dialogue/dialectic to maximize your argument victory points
the noncombative cuck suffers for his weakness

>> No.15602355

well maybe he was his second favorite

>> No.15602468

>>15601996
A lot of Professors will tell you not to do your dissertation on your favorite author because you will be too emotionally invested, the scholar is supposed to be clinical and “unbiased” I guess.

>> No.15602475

>>15602131
He actually made it, I was around when he was shitposting here, eventually he got a decent position at a small liberal arts college or cc.

>> No.15602478

>>15601996
because you cannot earn a living by teaching Sanderson, you idiot.

>> No.15602492

>>15602179
>>15602183
>>15602218

Newfags get out. How do you not recognize one of /lit/'s best copypastas...