EPTOr Immanuel is a pretty good guy even though he has the worst german sense of humor.
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Or Immanuel is a pretty good guy even though he has the worst german sense of humor. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
Also I've never read Philip K. Dick. Where do I start? | ||
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notesfromunderground
188 Posts
On October 04 2015 03:25 Nyxisto wrote: Also I've never read Philip K. Dick. Where do I start? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch UBIK Time Out of Joint | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On October 04 2015 03:19 Jerubaal wrote: Rousseau is definitely not a hack. Sarcasm ? And which Rousseau are you talking about ? | ||
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phantomfive
Korea (South)404 Posts
On October 04 2015 03:19 Jerubaal wrote: Rousseau is definitely not a hack. I almost feel like you are continuing an argument that is centuries old, and have sided with Rousseau. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On October 04 2015 19:11 phantomfive wrote: I almost feel like you are continuing an argument that is centuries old, and have sided with Rousseau. Yes, and I agree with J.J. that it's pronounced jif. | ||
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phantomfive
Korea (South)404 Posts
On October 05 2015 02:23 Jerubaal wrote: Yes, and I agree with J.J. that it's pronounced jif. It's ok man, you can respect both Voltaire and Rosseau. AFAICT, they respected each other, despite the insults. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/The-Road-to-Serfdom-First-Edition1.jpg/220px-The-Road-to-Serfdom-First-Edition1.jpg) The Road to Serfdom. A bit disappointing. He's fighting a real and dangerous ennemy - that was indeed the majority of self-called socialist at the time- but his arguments are so far too often dodgy. He for instance declares that without economic freedom there is no freedom, I am tempted to read that as a moral stance against wage labour. (Edit : he answers that at the end of chapter VII. I am then very sorry for the poor rich people who are apparently deprived of any freedom to choose). The way he sticks words onto people is also pretty funny. "They are well intentionned, but they are leading us toward nazism" is applied to so many categories that one does wonder who is not playing for nazis in Hayek minds. I mean, even people who think "laissez-faire" should have no exception are culprit of that, seriously... And the great nazi thinker, Thomas Carlyle, is that serious ? (apparently in part yes according to wikiberal...) On the other hand Thucydides and Pericles apparently are great liberal heroes... Pericles, the guy who defended the law that drastically reduced access to athenian citizenship ? Sounds like a cult of heroes, am I reading Carlyle ? And the classic socialism (on which is artificially stickied the "plannist" term with a few circonvolutions, wich is not without merit for polemic reasons at the time but is highly dubious on a theoric standpoint) hasn't been tried but it can't work and liberalism hasn't been tried either but it can work. At least he's not as dumb as all those french intellectual who were still defending Staline at the time or those who defended Mao in the late 70s... The funniest part he's that he's probably less liberal than Emmanuel Macron. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17206 Posts
![[image loading]](http://scribblepreach.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Perfect-Im-Not.jpg) | ||
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notesfromunderground
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Liebig
France738 Posts
![[image loading]](http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/750008/11869424/1303546438077/ForeverWarcover.jpg?token=Lh1maLHpV6rM%2BS%2BLX6277Hsz7zw%3D) finished it in 3 nights, pretty good read :o | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
Bought, among other things, Imaginary Magnitude by Lem. i'm sorta hoping that the GOLEM text was never fully translated into english because I want to translate it  Also, 1) im fucking deleuze sideways ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4142978ZYGL._SX268_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) 2) im wishing all of foucaults lectures were in books with covers as poppy as Society Must Be Defended because this one sucks ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tb7c9xM2L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) 3) im still fascinated by DeLillo ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512EUMJen2L._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) and 4) im gonna explain benjamins task of the translator and eco's ideal reader to some undergraduates through the magic of donald (as soon as i have read benjamin, that is) ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lUTpKsBkL._SX375_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On October 06 2015 06:38 Surth wrote: uuh. your best nickname yet! notes from the underground is the greatest text on ressentiment ever written! The Kreutzer Sonata, man | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On October 06 2015 06:07 notesfromunderground wrote: At some point I am going to have to sit down and read Hayek. Not particularly looking forward to it Yeah, that's my story. At least this one is short and repetitive. Almost done... Probably worth it though. Also read some Imre Kertesz (Kaddish...), a book about how one can live after Auschwitz, never telling the story itdelf. Pretty good. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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goody153
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![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Mistborn-_The_Well_of_Ascension_by_Brandon_Sanderson.jpg/220px-Mistborn-_The_Well_of_Ascension_by_Brandon_Sanderson.jpg) 2nd part of the Mistborn Trilogy + Show Spoiler + this is definetely better than the first book . the conclusion is interesting and i love the portrayal of governing a city under siege as well as the latest book of I am number four (2nd to the final book i hope) ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1429799057l/24488476.jpg) + Show Spoiler + ugh i have to wait for another year .. the one thing i enjoyed about this book that it's shown that Sentrakus Ra isn't invulnerable like how he was presented in the previous books and the death of the main female lead character woooo i didn't really like her she was more of an ideal flawless woman rather a character with problems probably the best out of all the books in the saga imo | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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BeStFAN
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