I just finished reading Yukio Mishima's 'Sun and Steel' because of the /fitlit/ exchange. While I am waiting for recommends, I'll see if I can find some good scholarly articles on it.
In the meantime, what are other essays, books, or fictions, which extol the physical, and/or try to collapse Platonic dualism (which doesn't actually exist within Plato; see Plotinus re: emanation).
Literature which would also get me into the mood for working out, or dragging myself for physical discipline would also be acceptable to recommend.
Don't be a mental curlbro, read literature about other stuff. Maybe read another book from Mishima if you liked him.
Thomas Davis
>Steppenwolf - Hesse >Fathers and Sons - Turgenev >The Iliad
Jackson Martinez
Im feeling like a funky monkey
Alexander Parker
This thinking is precisely what Mishima is disavowing.
Heck, to answer my own quesiton, I am looking for a philosophy of the body which holds the body neither as subject nor as object (that is - a throwing under, or a throwing against). Something along the lines of Nietzsche, or Montaigne, both of whom praise the thinking of the body, and its shaping.
Mishima, to me, seems a more direct linkage between Nietzsche and his thought compared to others who have taken up the body recently in post-modern French philosophy.
I saw a film version of Steppenwolf which I did not enjoy. I'll toss the book low on the list. I should read the Illaid. I'll finish that next. I have never heard of Fathers and Sons; I'll look it up. Thank you!
wut.
Matthew Rogers
After reading the Wikipedia page for 'Fathers and Sons', I must ask: why did you recommend it?
Henry Hall
>Heck >reddit-spacing shoo shoo
Sebastian Martin
Ride The Tiger, pretty much everything Evola. The Iron Pill is the path of /fitlit/.
