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5198240 No.5198240[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, it is really dangerous to read this guy ?
it can lead to depression ?

>> No.5198243

>>5198240
No, he is life-affirming pessimism.

>> No.5198260

I've read On The Height of Despaire and loved it, though had it been publisjed by someone in 2014 it would have been classed as fedora-tier autistic ranting

>> No.5198273

he is NOT life affirming pessimism

>> No.5198396

No he's not dangerous but yes he can be very depressing. I've only read some of his later works, "The Temptation to Exist", "The Trouble With Being Born" and "Drawn and Quartered." "On the Heights of Despair" was his first book so I wouldn't be surprised that it is young guy fedora ranting. The ones I read I really liked. He is sort of post-Nietzschean in that he doesn't think nihilism can be overcome and doesn't even try. Or like Camus, except that he can't imagine Sisyphus happy. He read very widely so at the works I read are chock full of references to damn near everything, from the Founding Fathers to Buddhist philosophers