Stack thread

It's Wittgenstein On Certainty, Webber Methodology of Social Sciences, Friedman Capitalism and Freedom, Lukcas Novel and Historical Reality, Habermas Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Kant Schelling Nietzsche Idea of University, Husserl Crisis of European Sciences and Transcedental Phenomenology, Huysmans La Bas,
Erasmus The Christian Ruler, Eco Problem of the Aesthetic in Aquinas

the Miller paperback is much too aesthetic to be ousted by an obscure hardcover
>not getting the Vintage edition of Nabokov's works
pleb
>an abridged version of Kapital without volume 3 and missing key footnotes
>public domain translation of Dante infamous for being bland
>random collection of Freud
jesus fucking christ dude
the UK must have shit stores
I hope you didn't order those

you can a set of 4 "essential zizek" books together for cheap

I'd definitely try to find the 3 volumes of the penguin classics version of Capital, they also have the Grundrisse, a collection of his early writings, and Verso has a 3 volume paperback edition of all his political writings
the ideal english version of his works is def the MECW
the ideal Descartes is the "The Philosophical Writings of Descartes" by Cambridge University Press in 3 volumes

the ideal Dantes are either John Singleton's 6 volume prose translation, Robert and Jean Hollander's Verse translation (in 3 books, by the Princeton Dante Project), or if you're not too interested in medieval studies yet, Ciardi or Mandelbaum's are acceptable

Adrian Johnston's "Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity" is the best overview of Zizek's work if you want to understand what he's working towards (many of Zizek's own works seem rather rambling and tangential but he's deceptively systematic), I'd recommend The Parallax View, Disparities, Absolute Recoil, and Less Than Nothing by him. They're much denser and more difficult than his "cultural studies" works but they're so much better

I'm knocking all your choices senpai but don't be too concerned, all those are OK and if you're interested in serious study you'd look for better versions of your volition anyway

Oxford classics has some ok translations, for Plato though I'd stick with Hackett

>On Certainty
>The Historical Novel
>Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
>The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
>The Damned
fantastic taste
make sure to check out "Postmetaphysical Thinking" and "Postmetaphysical Thinking 2" by Habermas, they're intended as sequels to philosophical discourse

This is just here to see what lead MacIntyre to abandon marxism and as a break from reading almost exclusively thomism (Wittgenstein included due to influence) for about a year. Hopefully I'll like it more than Adorno. Habermas was interesting in the Dialects of Secularisation with Benedict XVI, shame they didn't colaborate more.

The Bloom Tolkien is very critical. It's nice to see some balanced critical work though, usually people's responses are love/hate.

>I'm the Kapital guy
Thanks for the recommendations, I never really thought about searching for the best translations or editions of works, and I did order all of them except for Das Kapital - which I picked up in a bookstore since it was cheap. I'll usually try to go for the cheapest edition I can find, but trying to unlearn that habit. Saved myself from buying a cheap Critique of Pure Reason last night.

the only acceptable version of Kant's works are "The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant", or the recent Hackett translations of the three critiques by Pluhar
translations are extremely important
look at the active Ovid thread about someone picking up a copy of the Metamorphoses without checking the translation
its one of the worst ever published

From a few weeks ago but i wanted to contribute.

Stop using drugs

>Wasp Factory
Got me back into reading at 17. Definitely one of the best twists I've experienced, and Banks was a loveable guy.

Don't believe me?
>IainBanks.mpg
youtube.com/watch?v=-PdfXwAbP7U

The Recognitions is fantastic, just make sure to stick with it, its absolutely worth it to finish (people drop it very frequently)
Gargantua and Pantagruel isn't at all a foreboding classic and is extremely comfy and hilarious
>philosophy nerd
ok try:
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels by David Markson (3 of Markson's books collected into one volume, its not exactly "fiction" but you'll become extremely fond of Markson if you have an artistic or philosophical background)
The Name of the Rose/Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (you've probably read him already, but if not he's extremely comfy)
Grendel by John Gardner (weird existential novel told from the opposite perspective in Beowulf)
J R by William Gaddis (much harder reading than The Recognitions but my favourite work of his)
The Life of Johnson by James Boswell (extremely fun reading, johnson is 100% banter and clapbacks)
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (historical stream of consciousness work about the last hours in the life of Virgil)
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (unabridged if you can)
Bottom's Dream by Arno Schmidt ( the John E Woods translation ) (great if you're a huge fan of Finnegan's Wake, its also completely fucking massive so avoid it at all costs if you hate FW)
2666 by Robert Bolano
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann
Fragments of Lichtenberg by Pierre Senges
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
The Emigrants by W G Sebald
Vertigo by W G Sebald
your stack has pretty decent taste so I can't guess which books you've read and which you haven't

From the bottom up

>The End of the World
An Italian anthropologist trying to tackle the question of dasein/presence and its inherent "world building" through culture

>Conferences of Bremen and Freiburg
Heidegger raving about Technè and stuff

>Heidegger's Hand
Derrida on Heidegger, pretty funny and enjoyable actually

Then there are some of Gottfried Benn's narrative prose (top notch stuff, an amazing prose stylist) and the Ubu tetralogy by Alfred Jarry, which I still have to begin

I’ve been reading Lovecraft stories for a couple weeks

Got a fav? Bought The Last Door on steam when I was drunk recently but might read Lovecraft again to get into the game.

Posted this in last thread, but it died soon after.

>ugly edition of dubliners
>Pornografia
>absolutely disgusting hardcover, anthony briggs translation
please destroy those first and third books (even though they're great works)

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>buying an old banged up version of the stowed factor when dally just reissued all his works
lmao

>2666
Any good? Keep seeing it and I love the cover.

Great stack.

I got it for a dollar a few months back. I had a very cute interaction with the used bookstore employee, who was excited I was buying it.

I haven't started it but I'm sure I will love it.

Did I do good?

ignore literally everything this guy said

I love My Antonia. Comfiest memories of reading this in high school. I enjoyed the experience so much I stole the school's shitty paperback instead of returning it and buying my own copy.

Well, I wouldn't trust a guy who basically shits about book editions through the whole thread.

It's simple you fool, I've read the phenomenology of the mind in middle school, heidegger being in time and sartres being and nothingness in high school, it's legit simple.

I like /tennis/

How much did that stack cost you if you don't mind my asking?

From monday morning
25 cents each

£17. Meditations and Heracles I got as buy one get one free, Symposium was £2 and Don Quixote was £8.

Pale Fire was about £4, forgot that one.

Get mad.

>Lu Hsun
It's like you want to pronounce everything incorrectly

Don't have a camera but:
>The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings
>Back On the Road by Ernesto "Che Guevara
>LSD: My Problem Child by Alfred Hofmann
>Jack's Book by various friends of Jack Kerouac
>King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
>a book on mushrooms of North America
>a funky copy of On the Road I had never seen before
Bought all these within the last couple of weeks.
pic unrelated

That's really great to hear. I've been looking forward to reading it for some time and since I finally have some vacation time coming up, I'll be able sink into it.

It's all good, I have Chinese friends to sort me out.

>old Norton criticals
my nigger

I think we would make good friends.... And good food.

ideas where to start?

you've been posting this for fucking weeks
just stop
its a shit stack and if you haven't started it after all this time you should just throw it in the trash

why so mad?

Brother Karamazov, like I said last time.

this

neck yourself

u first

why did you buy two copies of Bend, Sister?

Meditations is my favourite book, user. Expect Aurelius to become a lifelong friend once you finish it.

I get fucking PTSD from this stack. Whenever I see ''stack thread" in the catalog, I immediately see this image and text.

why does it trigger you so much? Asking for a friend.

wtf are those books even about?

I can't seem to forget that ''Collins VOCABULARY EXPANDER''

I only drink whiskey.
That is the only one ive read out of the stack. Good stuff.

>all oxford and penguin

Get better translations you stupid piece of shit

Same here man, I also see that cheeky T-Rex in my sleep

>implying anything from Hegel is worth anything

>On certainty
An excellent, I'd say it's art.

>murakami
cut off your head

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Start with "The Health Benefits of Tobacco", sounds cool. 9/10

Start with that DFW, for sure. 8/10 for DFW

Meh, too political. 6/10

Can't read that.

Is that all fantasy? 5/10

Dunno, spanish or something. 4/10

Start with Pornographia, sounds cool 7/10

What's "The Pencil"? 6.5/10

Ballsack lol 6.4/10

DFW, nice. 9/10

IJ 10/10

I hate cookbooks, just do whatever in the kitchen. 3/10

2/10 why do you need a vocab expander? sentences should be simple and go BIM BIM BIM

Wrote what it is here

>oxford
>bad

Yeah, obviously a pseud who thinks you can only buy the books that they have a limited amount of. If you're ever worried about a translation, just look at reviews.

>I hate cookbooks, just do whatever in the kitchen. 3/10
Stay mad, die mad.

I'm down for friends. Poast ur cookbooks user!

kek

uwu

The used bookstore had a brand new, english copy of this book and I decided to snatch it and read this instead of “Frogs”, which sounded a but depressive.
I had mixed, but overall positive feelings about the Republic of Wine, which I read in Hungarian.

Let me know how pornografia was, I've read Cosmos and I really enjoyed the zanyness of the story

how's Critique of Everyday Life? Its unread on my Kindle with all the other 1000 page bigboyz

only good book is campbell
the rest is garbage op altho i havent read sunscreen biohazard but i can tell a book by its cover cuz i have weponized autism

What do I read first?

Honestly this is kind of a shit stack but I haven't really had time to reorganize it with my newer purchases

I wish I was reading Wittgenstein rn tho

How to read a book of course, otherwise you won't be able to read the others

I rather like Illuminatus Trilogy, although R.A.W. isn't discussed here too much.
There is a chapter of Yeti history that is a fantastic standalone story. Super funny.

How does this not fall over? Are the laws of physics different on the Southern Hemisphere?

Burn Sowell, start reading Tolstoy.

This thread is book fetishism, not literature

cry about it on your blog you faggot

unironically kill yourself

It's just a consequences of the Coriolis Effect. Toilets flush the other way around and book stacks have to be crooked in order to stay upright

asap

The two goes hand in hand

Can anyone who is a fan of naked lunch tell me what they enjoy about it? Beyond the whole structure-is-all-fucked-up-because-drugs gimmick, why is it actually considered a great? I don't think its bad, i'm just wondering.

Also I know most of these are ugly.

a-are you /uni/ reading list fag?

lol tao lin

Nah, man.

Nah, man.

I guess so. But please don't read the Mormon's Bible+ just because it's several thousands pages and has a pretty cover

Ahahah you're adorable god bless you

Cropped because my desk is a mess.

Top one is a Finnish translation of Capital vol 1, bottom one is Anwar Shaikh's Capitalism.

SAATANA

TORILLE