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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    What are you reading?



    I am in a school mode and I had to share my pain of having to read Aristotle's Poetics. Boooooo!!!
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    Also a bunch of short essays by Orwell, which are quite good, especially &quot;Politics and the English Language.&quot; If you ever want to know how to dissect the language of propaganda, it&#39;s a really excellent essay, readily avialable on the internet.
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  • Fuuma
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 4050

    #2
    Re: What are you reading?

    Reading Le diable en tete by the sometimes unsufferableBernard-Henry Levy. Some interesting ideas though.
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    • dontbecruel
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2006
      • 494

      #3
      Re: What are you reading?



      On a similar note, Fuuma, I&#39;m reading &quot;Contingency, Irony, Solidarity&quot; by Richard Rorty.It&#39;s the second time I&#39;ve read it through but the first time I&#39;ve understood what he&#39;s talking about, I think.It&#39;s worth making the effort to read it carefully because Rorty&#39;s ideas are motivated by heartfelt disgust at cruelty and injustice.</p>

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #4
        Re: What are you reading?

        [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]

        On a similar note, Fuuma, I&#39;m reading &quot;Contingency, Irony, Solidarity&quot; by Richard Rorty.It&#39;s the second time I&#39;ve read it through but the first time I&#39;ve understood what he&#39;s talking about, I think.It&#39;s worth making the effort to read it carefully because Rorty&#39;s ideas are motivated by heartfelt disgust at cruelty and injustice.</p>

        [/quote]</p>

        Rorty is great. I read the part of the book that deals with irony, he&#39;s really smart.</p>
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        • dontbecruel
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2006
          • 494

          #5
          Re: What are you reading?



          [quote user=&quot;Faust&quot;]Rorty is great. I read the part of the book that deals with irony, he&#39;s really smart.[/quote]</p>

          Not much appreciated in England I don&#39;t think, but his books seem to be very widely read by humanities undergrads in the states. What do you study Faust?</p>

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          • Faust
            kitsch killer
            • Sep 2006
            • 37852

            #6
            Re: What are you reading?

            [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]

            [quote user=&quot;Faust&quot;]Rorty is great. I read the part of the book that deals with irony, he&#39;s really smart.[/quote]</p>

            Not much appreciated in England I don&#39;t think, but his books seem to be very widely read by humanities undergrads in the states. What do you study Faust?</p>

            [/quote]</p>

            Yes, he&#39;s a humanities hero, since he basically wrote that best philosophy is found in literature. Philosophy people really hate him for that, lol. He teaches at Stanford now. Strange that he&#39;s not appreciated in England, since he wrote extensively on continental philosophy. Well, come to think of it, maybe not so strange [:P]</p>

            I am in process of getting my Master&#39;s in Liberal Studies, concentrating in literature.</p>
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            • dontbecruel
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 494

              #7
              Re: What are you reading?



              In the UK, philosophy departments teach analytic philosophy and ignore continental thinkerswhile every other humanities department has its students writingquasi-philosophical essays on Foucault and Derrida.I imagine the same is true in the states isn&#39;t it?</p>

              I think Rorty is too sceptical about Foucault to be very popular over here. University lecturers in literature love Foucault because he allows them to imagine themselves as political without actually having to get off their arses and be kind to their fellow human beings.</p>

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #8
                Re: What are you reading?

                [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]

                In the UK, philosophy departments teach analytic philosophy and ignore continental thinkerswhile every other humanities department has its students writingquasi-philosophical essays on Foucault and Derrida.I imagine the same is true in the states isn&#39;t it?</p>

                I think Rorty is too sceptical about Foucault to be very popular over here. University lecturers in literature love Foucault because he allows them to imagine themselves as political without actually having to get off their arses and be kind to their fellow human beings.</p>

                [/quote]</p>

                It&#39;s hard to comment for me, because I haven&#39;t read Rorty extensively, but I believe you. I should&#39;ve taken Foucault class last semester, but I am too immersed in Lit. What are you studying (or is this reading for pleasure)?
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                • dontbecruel
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 494

                  #9
                  Re: What are you reading?

                  I did my first degree in English Lit but that was quite a few years ago, so I amreading for pleasure I guess. I&#39;m now back at college studying medicine (9 monthsto go). I think I read things like the Rorty to keep alive my cherished self-image as a cultured person. In reality, of course, my brain is turning to jelly.

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #10
                    Re: What are you reading?

                    Reading some W.E.B. Du Bois. Interesting to see different styles of writing in the same book.
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                    • Faust
                      kitsch killer
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 37852

                      #11
                      Re: What are you reading?

                      [quote user=&quot;new_dawn_fades&quot;]

                      for the third time The wind up bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami


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                      I did not get through it for some reason. Well, I ran out of time, my semester started, but I also kind of lost interest. I liked the Wild Sheep Chase, and Norwegian Wood, but this one for some reason did not seem as interesting.
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                      • Fuuma
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 4050

                        #12
                        Re: What are you reading?

                        Anybody read Les bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell, critics have been raving about this so much I guess I&#39;ll have to check it out, just to be able to sustain conversations. I just find stories involving gay nazis (I know I&#39;m reducing a 900 pages book to a cliche, please forgive me :) )so tired since Moravia perfectly summed up the question in The comformist.
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                        • Faust
                          kitsch killer
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 37852

                          #13
                          Re: What are you reading?



                          Fuuma, I haven&#39;t heard of that book, so I can&#39;t really comment.</p>

                          I&#39;m reading Othello. Honestly.</p>
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                          • dontbecruel
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 494

                            #14
                            Re: What are you reading?

                            I am crazy about Othello. Look at this... it is one of the most rhythmical, tense bits of writing in English:

                            Oth. Is he not honest?
                            Iago. Honest, my Lord?
                            Oth. Honest? I, Honest
                            Iago. My Lord, for ought I know
                            Oth. What do&#39;st thou thinke?
                            Iago. Thinke, my Lord?
                            Oth. Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos&#39;t me;
                            As if there were some Monster in thy thought
                            Too hideous to be shewne.

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                            • Faust
                              kitsch killer
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 37852

                              #15
                              Re: What are you reading?



                              [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]I am crazy about Othello. Look at this... it is one of the most rhythmical, tense bits of writing in English:

                              Oth. Is he not honest?
                              Iago. Honest, my Lord?
                              Oth. Honest? I, Honest
                              Iago. My Lord, for ought I know
                              Oth. What do&#39;st thou thinke?
                              Iago. Thinke, my Lord?
                              Oth. Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos&#39;t me;
                              As if there were some Monster in thy thought
                              Too hideous to be shewne.

                              [/quote]</p>

                              I did not get to that part yet, but I am enjoying it. I like it how Shakespear is all about characters.
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