#philosophical books

[amourlashai]

The Tao of Wu by RZA is such an intellectually stimulating book! I literally cannot stop highlighting because there are so many gems in it.

#the tao of wu #rza #the rza #wu tang clan #wutang #wu tang forever #philosophy #philosophical #philosophical books #quotes #hip hop #hip hop blog #hip hop beats #the wu tang mountain #the 36 chambers of Shaolin #taoism #kung fu #the lessons #knowledge #divine mathematics #12 jewels #twelve jewels #supreme mathematics #supreme alphabet #spiritual #music #spirituality #spirit #wisdom

[rimikuu]

There are no Geometry for Ocelots hashtags on tumblr, and the one on Instagram is so damn dry

LIKE- THERES LITERALLY ONLY TWO FANART PIECES FOR IT, MADE BY THE SAME PERSON???

Ya’ll are missing out on this book.

I will make it my duty to bring light to it, exub1a’s content is so underrated,,

#GeometryForOcelots #book #books #book reccs #book recommendations #exurb1a #philosophy #philosophical books #I’ll add more tags if I get ear of any

[neurodivergentminor]

" I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself "

𝐵𝓎 𝐹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓏 𝒦𝒶𝒻𝓀𝒶

𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒶𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓅𝒽𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓈

#metamorphosis #franz kafka #franz kafka quotes #exestentialism #existential books #exestential nihilist #philosophical books #philosopher #books and novels #life quote #book quote #beautiful quote

[plotsnthots]

Sometimes I want a book where it makes me think and have an existential crisis. Other times I just want the characters to get railed, you know? It’s called balance.

#smut #philosophical books #philosophical thoughts #let’s get naughty #reader thoughts #reader things

[lesewut]

The rules of etiquette by Knigge can be helpful and beneficial for the sensitive, who has struggles with earthly live under humanoids without complete eating up the own brain 🧠

The humanist Knigge (1752-1796) had analysed people's social behaviour, had dealt with the philosophical works of Kant, had translated texts by Rousseau and he also had wrote different essays on history, politics and society, before he published his pathbreaking guide in 1788 “Practical Philosophy of Social Life”

Nearly every book in Germany dealing with concepts of behaviour, etiquettes and manner are named after Knigge. But the rules aren’t just an approach for well social behaviour in company or, even more wrong, for table manners (which he personally is not defining!), there are also referred points for dealing with partner, friends, family or with yourself.

#literature #book cover #book #philosophical books #philosophy #practical philosophy #literature of enlightenment #Knigge #etiquette #well-behaviour #18th century #18th century literature #lit #cake #bookworm #guide

[booksmart1122]

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[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed) #there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone? #yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't) #the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution) #and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is) #it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

[philosophors]

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”

#sylvia plath #literature #lit #literature lover #literature quote #literature quotes #english literature #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophers #philosophy quotes #philosophy of life #quote #quotes #excerpts #excerpt #quoteoftheday #booklover #book #bookworm #books #book quotes #book quotations #the bell jar

[flowersforfrancis]

#dark academia #romanticism #philosophers #albert camus #art academia #red academia #wine #chaotic academia #books and literature #academia #classic academia #dark romantica #aesthetic #vintage academia

[beljar]

The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.

Noam Chomsky, from On Palestine, March 23, 2015

#noam chomsky #palestine #occupation #genocide #colonization #resistence #american #philosopher #human rights #palestinians #struggle #voice of palestain #palestinian resistance #free palestine #palestinian rights #scientist #books and libraries #quotation #bookblr #history #spilled ink #settler colonialism

[ruegarding]

we do not have five entire books full of percy's philosophical thoughts for rick to pull this shit. if annabeth was in character, she would be looking at this architecture and consider what she'd do different (and since she's redesigning olympus, she'd maybe also consider if she'd use any designs there). her fatal flaw is hubris and it should be a staple characteristic of hers.

#haha percy's a boy w adhd obviously he's stupid and simple and can't handle philosophical thoughts #every time i think hoo isn't *that* bad i open the books and realize my brain has edited shit for me to make it palatable #this is relevant to last post abt characterization and this annoyed me as i was rereading the chapters to double check #anyway. this is a reminder that hoo makes both percy and annabeth wildly ooc compared to pjo #annabeth does what i'm describing in pjo multiple times bc that's who she is! she sees something and thinks how she could make it better #ESPECIALLY when it's one of her interests! #annabeth chase #heroes of olympus #hoo crit #rr crit #min talks pjo

[hedgehog-moss]

Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#history of the devil and the idea #demonic #the fallen angel #books #cover books #cover art #philosophical principles #practice of evil through #dark forces #contemporary manifestations of evil #book #cover #cover book #literature #goth aesthetic #gothic aesthetic

[arsanimarum]

“I want to exist from my own force, like the sun which gives light and does not suck light.”

C. G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

#carl gustav jung #c.g. jung #liber novus #bibliophile #literature #quotes #literary #occult #the red book #carl jung #occultism #philosopher #philosophy

[alphabetcompletionist]

i wanna see one of the tumblr girlies write a post sexualizing the library of babel in their absurd way. although i guess it already exists in there

AB DEFGHI LMNOP RSTU WXYZ

21/26

#and per se and #this is language related it counts #i pull a book off the shelf at the library of babel and the first page is ascii art of my di #no i love that story. trap your characters in a strange dungeon and spend 90% of it philosophizing the nature of the dungeon

[lesewut]

Schleiermacher’s “Philosophical Ethics”Violet marbled and half-bound leather edition of 1870. Published in Berlin by J. H. von Kirchmann.

Schleiermacher- The mediator of religion and theology in German Romantic era, but proclaiming piety and secularisation • Highly influenced by his private studies of Platon’s and Kant’s philosophical system, also comparing them and their principles of reason • External living condition are defined as insignificant humane attributes (“Je höher sich der Mensch hebt, desto kleiner sieht er die Lebensverhältnisse.“) ⚠️ plus the phantasy helps to triumph over reality 😘 • The whole world is nothing but “Individuation in the identical”, we should recognise the principle of eternal development • Jean Paul noticed that Schleiermacher gave philosophy a new poetic significance.

Ways to establish a noble mind-set and healthy life (selection):

I. Commandment

Friendship and matrimony, both have their roots in love, whereas love is merging two individuals into one and friendship is not depending on the overall idea of the person/partner opposite

II. Commandment

Do not create ideals of the loved ones, just love “how she/he is” ; this is also appealing to novel heroes :’)

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Highest Goal in Life should be a complete and constant accordance of our recognitions and longings; this also means:

-> The only will should be the will to become more and more “what I am”

-> the own view of the universe is just a part of the total-view (cf. Platon’s Theory of Ideas)

-> take every sorrow and smile as a new sort of energy to improve yourself; the human-soul should become a work of art

-> religion is not the source of morals and morals are not the source of religion, but religiousness is the source of morality and morality the source of religiousness; Schleiermacher defines religiousness as the “power of soul” and “binding principle”, God has no denomination, God is defined as the highest ultimate aim: The arranging cosmic force

#literature #book cover #book #bookworm #philosophical books #philosophy #Schleiermacher #romaticism #romantic epoch #1870 #19th century #19th century literature #antiquarian book #antiquarian #bibliophile