/lit/ - Literature

>>13139399
>spook
>no respect for human life

>>13131202

Anyone here read all of Plato?

>>13067684
>Spengler
>Nazi
pic related
Even Adorno said that Spengler was only forgotten because his contemporaries couldn't deal with it

>>12998155
>anon posts 2 sentence but me only read 1 before posting

>>12993929
>mfw philosophers complain about myopic and reductive tendencies from STEMtards
>mfw philosophers then brag about their IQ's

>>12978422
what are you talking about you dumb fucking schizo i never said anything like that

>>12976559
>asserted without evidence
>durr search engines exist bro just look it up
ok this is getting good now

>>12971662
>durr you dont agree with my idea of marxism even though ive only read the sparknotes of marx therefore you aren't a marxist
this is the calibre of intellect that peterson fans have, yikes. absolutely fucking brain-dead

>>12949766
>Smerdyakov is the son of Fyodor Karamazov

Why do people use "pretentious" as an insult? Like it's bad to have aspirations or to try to be something?

>>12830950
>They call themselves marxist
>therefore they are marxist

They're unironically closer to Hitler than they are to Marx.

>why do you read fiction it's worthless

>>12694848
>anon criticizes abrahamic religion as a whole
>WOW U FUKN CHRISTIAN
This is why Jewish IQ is a lie and a meme. Get help you retarded mouthbreather.

i will take any and all literature recommendations regarding optimistic nihilism. Non fiction also welcome.

>reading for 'escapism'

>>12590638
>>12590664
>WE ARE VERY SPECIAL INTELLEKTUAL CLUB NOT YOUR PLEBBIREBBIT
>DO YOU EVEN KNOW THIS OBSCURE RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL WRITER FEODOR DOSTOMEMSKI? HAHA YOU PLEB
>NO I HAVENT READ HIM BUT IM MOST CERTAINLY GOING TO AFTER FIGURING OUT WHICH TRANSLATION IS THE WORST AND LEARNING RUSSIAN ON DUOLINGO
>HAHA UR PROBABLY AN ATHEIST DORA-FEDORA TOO YOU FUCKING PLEB FEEL THE LIGHT OF LOGOS AND BECOME A REDPILLED ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LIKE ME (((PROTESTANTS))) ARE GAY BTW
>POST YOUR SHELF RIGHT NOW I BET ITS ALL GAUDY HARDCOVERS FOR SHOW INSTEAD OF ACTUAL READ NOT LIKE ME I MAKE SURE ALL MY SPINES ARE VISIBLY VERY CREASED TO SHOW EVERYONE HOW MUCH I READ
>HAHA DAE RUPI KAUR IS LITERALLY THE WORST HOW COULD POETRY EVEN COME TO THIS PLEBSHIT I CANT BELIEVE WE LOST ARTHUR RAMBO NO I HAVENT READ HIM BUT HE WAS DEFINITELY THE BEST

>it has great worldbuilding

>>12565393

>>12535691
>quotes Orwell on language when most of Orwell's criticism on political language was aimed at his contemporary communists

>>12523816
>employed people cannot claim unemployment
truly profound

>>12516521
>towering figure on the left
>anarchist apologist for Pol Pot and other state communist regimes
Sounds like the left has some problems

>this novel is excellent, I wish Netflix would make an adaptation

>>12424223
>sexual self-repression