Who are Veeky Forumss favorite people? You can have up to two per thing. Ill start:

>Schopenhauer not next to Goethe and Kant

You are a Plebian.

who's the middle picture in third column? looks a bit like my dad

v pretentious

Philosopher:
Emil Cioran, Lev Shestov.

Political Writer:
Plato, Thomas Carlyle (Does he count?)

Fiction Writer:
Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde

Poet:
Keats, Shakespeare.

Musician:
Wagner, Bach

Artist:
Henry Fuseli, Gustav Klimt

dw just double checked, it's Herrick. dunno why the first image Google returns for Robert Herrick is a portrait of Ben Jonson.

>Fiction Writers
Hesse & Melville

>Philosopher
Kant & Augustine

>Not-Augustine Theologians
Barth & Calvin.

>Historian
de Tocqueville & Bloch

Are you saying that because of my favorite musicians?

Philosopher:
W. D. Ross, David Lewis

Political Writer:
Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky

Fiction Writer:
Franz Kafka, William Faulker

Poet:
Rimbaud, Verlaine

Musician:
Debussy

Artist:
Monet, Renoir

Philosopher:
Satre, Wittgenstein, Husserl

Political Writer:
Hobbes

Fiction Writer:
Kafka, Mishima

Poet:
Milton, Byron

Musician:
Philip Glass

Artist:
Gustave Dore, Holbein

There's nothing wrong w/ Satie either, faggot.

nice pointless namedropping.

>tfw no Scientist and Mathematician option
:/

>Philosopher:
Socrates, Nietzsche
>Political Writer:
de Tocqueville, Thucydides
>Fiction Writer:
honestly idk.
>Poet:
Apollinaire, Shakespeare
>Musician:
Borodin, Mozart
>Artist:
Pythokritos of Lindos, Jacques-Louis David

Philosopher:
Platon, Nietzsche

Political Writer:
Julius Evola

Fiction Writer:
Hesse, Zweig

Poet:
T. S. Eliot

Musician:
Leonard Cohen

Philosopher:
Hegel, Stirner

Political Writer:
Machiavelli, Rousseau

Fiction Writer:
Kafka, Pynchon

Poet:
Walt Whitman, Rimbaud

Musician:
Mozart, Tchaikovsky

Artist:
Michelangelo

>Noam Chomsky
He didn't list a charlatan category.

Philosopher:
Kierkegaard

Political Writer:
Not sure

Fiction Writer:
Wharton, Pynchon

Poet:
C. Rossetti, Sexton

Musician:
Tchaikovsky, Dvorak

Artist:
Moreau, Böcklin

>Philosopher
Kant (and by extension Schopenhauer)
Hegel
Heidegger
Levinas
Steiner

>Political Writer
Marx
Rousseau
Zizek (you like him too)

>Fictional Writer
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Leo Tolstoy
Marcel Proust

>Poet
A.E. Housman
W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound
Hart Krane

>Music
Don't listen to enough classical but I like;
Bach
Dvorjak
Scriabin
Schubert

>Artist
Don't know enough about art and the history of art but I like;
Jack Yeats
Vermeer
Sandro Botticelli

>Philosopher

NIETZSCHE, LEVINAS

>Political writer

MARX

>fiction writer

JOYCE, PYNCHON, GOMBROWICZ

>poet

T.S. ELIOT, JOHN MILTON

>music

MESSIAEN, DEBUSSY, STRAVINSKY

>artist

MAGRITTE

>Philosopher
Spinoza, Deleuze

>Political Writer
Hakim Bey, Ocalan

>Fiction Writer
H.S. Thompson, Giorgio Manganelli

>Poet
Anne Carson, Thomas Meyer (but I don't know many)

>Musician/Singer-Songwriter
"Pat the Bunny", Vasco Brondi (first couple albums)

>Artist/Director
Officina Infernale, Stan Brakhage

Philosopher:
Heidegger, Wittgenstein

Political Writer:
Charles Taylor

Fiction Writer:
Dostoevsky, Wallace

Poet:
Whitman, Blake

Musician:
Slint, Sonic Youth

Artist:
Blake

Don't associate Satie and Beethoven with that.

If bait, then 10/10

stirner fags pls go

>Satre, Wittgenstein, Husserl
why don't you just read Heidegger already? He's like these put together, but more fundamentally interesting than all of them.

It's a musical masterpiece, but idiots won't admit as much because it is well known.

Philosopher:
Aristotle, Hume

Fiction Writer:
Gass, Gaddis

Poet:
Yeats, Pound

Musician:
Kapustin, Ellington

Artist:
Blake, Monet

>Ciorian and Wagner
>Nazi detected

I'm really not.

Philosopher: Paul the Apostle

Fiction Writer: Tolkien and Dostoyevsky

Poet: John Donne and Yeats

Musician: Chopin and Rachmaninoff

Artist: Michelangelo, I guess, and The Artist (as a young man)

>Philosophers
Aristotle, Kant, Leibniz

>Fiction writers
Kawabata, Gogol, Gombrowicz

>Poets
Boileau, Mallarmé, Hölderlin

>Composers
Händel, Schubert, Mahler

>Artists
Degas, Sargent, Titian

Who let you be me

>Philosopher:
Aristotle, Aquinas
>Political Writer:
Hilaire Belloc, F. A. Hayek
>Fiction Writer:
Gene Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky
>Poet:
Dante
>Musician:
Chelsea Wolfe, Bach, Sequenti
>Artist:
Gustav Klimt

are an MA student by any chance? what's your area of study?

terrible

Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Political Writer: Hayek (cuzins kek)
Fiction Writer: Faulkner
Poet: Dante
Musician: Young Thug
Artist: Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Goya

Going to Berkeley in September to study economics

>Philosopher
Kierks
>Fiction Writer
Machado de Assis, Joyce
>Poets
Fernando Pessoa
>Musician
Thom Yorke lmao

Where do I start with Heidegger?

>Philosophers:
Sartre, Kant, Heidegger

>Political Writers:
Thoreau, Huxley

Fiction Writers:
Joyce, Nabokov

Poets:
Frost, Shakespeare

Musicians:
Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman

>Artists:
JMW Turner, Rembrandt

I'm a mindless pleb, I know.

Favorite philosophers: Thucydides, Nietzsche

Philosophers that mean absolutely nothing to me: Parmenides, Pythagoras, Plato, Bacon, Newton, Locke, Mills, Rousseau, Kant, German idealists, Marx(ists), Kierkegaard, practically all 20th century French philosophers (especially Camus and Derrida), Comte, Cioran, all 'pessimists' (not Schopenhauer), Freud, Frege, Russell, all analytic philosophers (late-Wittgenstein doesn't count), Levinas, Frankfurt School, Chomsky

Painters: Frederic Edwin Church, George Inness

Birds: Carolina chickadee, Tufted titmouse, Barred owl

Philosopher:
Heidegger, Hume

Political Writer:
Hobbes, Machiavelli

Fiction:
Dickens, DeLillo (kek)

Poet:
Larkin, Cohen (not big into poetry)

Musician:
Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith,

Artist:
Turner (kek #2)

Introduction to Metaphysics is a good place, you'll want to read Being and Time when you're ready for it. Also his essay Letter On Humanism would also be a good place to dip your toes.

>Philosopher: Kierkegaard

>Political Writer: -----

>Fiction Writer: Dostoevsky, Remarque

>Poet: Jaksic Djura

>Musician: Chopin, Debussy

>Artist: JMW Turner, Nadezda Petrovic

t. Serb

>Kapustin
my nigger, also you better be talking Ellington the composer, not the pianist.

Do you know of any good books on owls? preferably with visuals

>Kant, Nietzsche
Sick meme, my décadent.

Philosophy:
Alan Watts, Michel Foucault

Poetry:
Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman

Fiction:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Borges

Essayist:
would Hunter S. Thompson count?

Playwrights:
Aristophanes, Oscar Wilde

Musician:
Bob Dylan

>Alan Watts

I'm speaking of the black one--Duke.

The joke was: I don't think Ellington was a particularly special pianist, he was a good composer though.

reflect on the pointlessness of having answered this survey now

>Kierkegaard
are you fucking retarded?

Philosopher:
Baudrillard
Deleuze

Political Writer:
Spengler, Chomsky (I guess, I don't know many political writers)

Fiction Writer:
Faulkner
Delillo

Poet:
Hart Crane
John Berryman

Musician:
Swans
Townes Van Zandt

Artist:
Caravaggio
Goya

I thought that was a joke, for a moment, but realized that there are thousands of pianists I don't know about, and assumed you meant another person entirely. I agree with you, though--Ellington was much better at composing than playing. If you're interested in saxophonists, check out Johnny Hodges. Here's him playing: youtube.com/watch?v=lxBCEuHQVms

>Rousseau
Fucking hell, man.

Philosopher:
Barthes, Schopenhauer

Political Writer:
Idk, does Plato count?

Fiction Writer:
Faulkner, Nabokov

Poet:
Keats, Whitman

Musician:
Jeff Mangum, The Antlers

Artist:
Aubrey Beardsley

>British poets

Uhh Montaigne, Hume, Marx, Joyce, Woolf, Homer, Shelley, Schoenberg, Turner, Rothko

HHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

Walden

Philosophers:
-Thucydides
+Ruskin

Birds:
+Northern cardinal

-Nietzsche
-Ruskin
+me

>Chomsky
I've said this before, he didn't list a charlatan category.
>Spengler
I've heard his work is more of a piece of art than a real description of things, would this be right?

+me
+me

he ain't lyin about chomsky lol

>I've heard his work is more of a piece of art than a real description of things, would this be right?

Yeah pretty much. Spengler's thesis is, historically speaking, crackpot-tier.

"Decline of the West" just has such a sound to it, even if it's not true I like the concept of a decaying society. Is Spengler worth reading?

Holy fuck, the guy lists "Baudrillard and Deleuze" as his favorite philosophers, yet you chose to go after Chomsky and Spengler with the words "charlatan" and "not a real description of things"? Christ on a bike, get your priorities in order. At least Chomsky and Spengler wrote clearly.

I don't know much about those two desu. Could you enlighten me?

Van Zandt was the only good response

Patrish desu

+Protagoras

>Philosopher:
Schopenhauer, Stirner

>Political Writer:
ehh, can Dostoevsky count?

>Fiction Writer:
Dostoevsky, Joyce

>Poet:
Eliot

>Musician:
Shitty pop music tbqh

>Artist:
Xue Jiye

whats so funny?

I don't much care for rigorous philosophy to be honest, I read philosophers for ideas that are interesting to me. Baudrillard and Deleuze, for their non-sophisticated approach, have very interesting ideas

-me
-me
-me
-Protagoras

Philosopher:
Nietzsche

Poet:
Byron

You got conned. Baudrillard and Deleuze have no ideas - just convoluted evasive language masquerading as profundity.

-Byron
+Ruskin

the end

Have you actually read them? Because I have read a few books of each, and I quite enjoy and appreciate what I've read

>Philosopher:
B. Russell, W.V. Quine, D.K. Lewis

>Political Writer:
P. Proudhon, P. Kropotkin, N. Chomsky

>Fiction Writer:
H. Fielding, W. Thackeray, I. Turgenev, J. Conrad, F. Kafka, J.L. Borges, V. Nabokov

>Poet:
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Yeats

>Musician:
J.S. Bach

>Artist:
Giotto, Bruegel the Elder, van Eyck, Botticelli, Grünewald, Velázquez, Goya

are you?
Kierkegaard is the pinnacle of enlightenment thought.

Maybe you enjoy them as literary works? In other words, as a kind of Borgesian satire of nonfiction.

music and artist fuckin slayed me, thanks for this

No, I enjoy them for what they are. I don't believe philosophy can accurately provide a noumenal description of the world, and exists only to prepare new lenses through which to view it. Incidentally, rigor doesn't mean much to me, and I am perfectly satisfied with using philosophy as a unique framing device to view the world

Nietszche was a Kantian to the core, however hard he tried to overcome him.

Don't feel like you need to justify your taste in front of funposters.

Then you are reading the wrong people. Baudrillard and Deleuze are not even philosophers. They just spout nonsense.

Only doing one each, adding film because it should be on there. Also, why are 90% of posters naming Bach, Beethoven, etc. as favorite music? Is this genuinely what you guys generally listen to or are you simply trying to cultivate an appearance of being cultured? (Don't get me wrong, those guys are great, but it's not what I listen to on a typical day.)

>Philosophy
Plato

>Politics
Marx

>Literature
Faulkner

>Poetry
Homer

>Music
Eno

>Art
Rousseau

>Film
Ozu

Get at me, ladies.

Would chill with.

Fouca- I mean I have no idols

>Is this genuinely what you guys generally listen to or are you simply trying to cultivate an appearance of being cultured
It's the same reason you listed Plato and Homer. You don't really have a preference, so you just put down a "classic" choice that no one could disagree with.

It sounds to me like you don't really know what you're talking about, and you're trying to adopt an elitist, admonishing tone to convince yourself of something without actually doing the work of reading. If it makes you feel better to call 20th century french continentals 'spouters of nonsense,' I won't try to argue with you.

You're trying to call out others on posting Bach and Beethoven then you post Brian Eno?? This has to be bait..

Seriously, fucking Eno is damn near every answer in the music threads on here. Marx and Plato too?? Fucking tryhard.

I've read all sorts of philosophy (I got my degree in philosophy) and Plato is genuinely my favorite. As for Homer- yes, my exposure to poetry is admittedly very limited but he's extremely readable and entertaining (depending on translation I guess). Definitely not a deliberate highbrow choice.

>You don't really have a preference

This makes sense....

>so you just put down a "classic" choice that no one could disagree with.

This sounds a bit like you're projecting.

>fucking Eno is damn near every answer in the music threads

Weird, I'm the only one who mentioned him.

> Marx and Plato too?? Fucking tryhard.

lol okay, pal.