Book Chat Thread

flightsbooked

Sep 6, 2023

Choking

if u wanna get into philosophy my suggestion would be just to delve into whatever u want and then work from there that’s how i did it before i started going to school for it with PoS from Hegel. Otherwise starting with the greeks or the masters of suspicion (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud) is good since those 3 don’t require u to know the centuries long debates to really get them.

Other ways i suggest is reading up on whoever ur interested in on this site it’s a good resource to getting introduced to thinkers https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/

as well as reading secondary literature before u read the main guy so you can get background information on em for Kant, German Philosophy 1760 - 1860 by Terry Pinkard is good
http://home.lu.lv/~ruben/Terry%20Pinkard%20-%20German%20Philosophy,%201760%20-%201860,%20The%20Legacy%20of%20Idealism.pdf

Also some tips don’t expect to get everything about the text since there very dense and debates over them still go on about them, or hell even finish i still haven’t finished PoS after trying to raw dog it on my first attempt a year ago. Also texts as dense and long as the critique expect months to finish them and take ur time with them there is no rush to finish them

Good looks thanks for the suggestions king I'll definitely check them out and let u know what I think

Sir Swagalot

Sep 8, 2023

currently shuffling between unmasked, covenant of water, and grapes of wrath

luldxckgur

Sep 8, 2023

anyone read light bringer by pierce brown yet?

Sir Swagalot

Sep 10, 2023

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have any of y’all read small worlds by caleb azumah nelson

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

Sep 10, 2023

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Sir Swagalot

have any of y’all read small worlds by caleb azumah nelson

Nah but I read Open Water by the same author. How's that book?

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

Sep 10, 2023

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Been tearing through books this month

Sir Swagalot

Sep 10, 2023

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

Nah but I read Open Water by the same author. How's that book?

haven’t peeped it yet tbh, but everybody ik who has says it’s incredible…i gotta finish what i’m reading first cuz i got so much on my plate rn

flightsbooked

Sep 11, 2023

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CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

Been tearing through books this month

W I wish I could relate but I guess I just gotta make time

Smuchaine

Sep 11, 2023

flightsbooked

W I wish I could relate but I guess I just gotta make time

KFA 🏛️

Oct 5, 2023

Jon Fosse won the nobel prize for literature this year.
Absolutely deserved.

Such a unique writer, my favorite writer for sure

mikeythewzrd

Oct 6, 2023

Been going through the Cradle books. F***ing fantastic series.

tgdaddy

Oct 7, 2023

edited

this year:

the culture of narcissism
1984
on the road
crime and punishment (soon finished)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Prince
Art of War

the latter 2 were because they were small and important

i used to read voraciously, i know my picks are basic but im proud to have got back into this beautiful world

give me some recommendations for what to read next :)

i have siddhartha, Notes from the Underground, a bunch of ancient literature- and Nietzsche genealogy of morals, gay science and beyond good and evil

VAGABOND02

Oct 14, 2023

Reading Schopenhauer essays and aphorisms… it’s very good

I don’t take everything the guy says seriously especially since he’s huge into metaphysics but his theories are still interesting and fun to delve into and in as far as some people might say he’s depressing… I mean hey he might be but he’s still kinda spittin facts too. The truth is life is depressing and he was one of the people who wasn’t afraid to shine a light on that oft disregarded or under emphasized truth. Thank god for that.