What are some books that really make you think by exploring extreme philosophical ideas? Something like Ficciones, not too heavy on plot and focused on ideas.
What are some books that really make you think by exploring extreme philosophical ideas? Something like Ficciones...
Ayden Adams
Brayden Fisher
Consider philosophy. Also, start with the Greeks.
Bentley Rogers
>Hilarotragoedia - Giorgio Manganelli
An essay/fiction considering the possibility of human beings being, by nature, of a "descenditive inclination", doomed to enthropically spiral into Death, the Underworld and utter nothingness
uploady.com
>The Temple of Iconoclasts - Rodolfo J. Wilcock
A collection of vignettes about the inherent absurdity of human endeavors and ideologies, probably the best Borgesian book never written by Borges
harpers.org
>Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem - Nicola Masciandaro
A collection of extremely well written (if hyperobscure and convoluted) philosophical essays on topics from the "worm" as a symbol to anagogy.
academia.edu
Cooper Morris
>What are some books that really make you think by exploring extreme philosophical ideas?
Lol no.
Borges is to philosophy, as action movies are to political theory. While Borges is probably the most famous and successful of this subgenre, his fiction mostly comprises of the low hanging fruit of philosophy, like identity, memory, entry level speculative mathematics, etc. It is deep material, but hardly the end-all of what philosophical fiction is capable of.
James Allen
Cool thanks for the recs bozo
Jeremiah Moore
This is some serious great stuff. Thanks man.
John Campbell
>OP asks for recommendations
>"HAHAHA look how I'm smart for stating that a short story writer isn't as philosophical as philosophers"
Elijah White
>as action movies are to political theory
while not in depth analysis, they can be a powerful reflection on in time politcal theory, on the same verge, people like Borges and Camus can explore philosophical issues while writing fiction
most people don't realize this until a bum like zizek talks about them
Brayden Ramirez
>something like Ficciones, not too heavy on plot and focused on ideas.
How the fuck do you take that as "Borges is the end-all of what philosophical fiction"
Try Don DeLillo, his shorter works are more idea heavy, but Underworld, his biggest, is in the same vein.
Zachary Rodriguez
>Camus
muh existentialism
youre not making your case here. camus is still seen as a watered down sartre, and is pretty much high school core.
Matthew Miller
and you're still displaying your turbo-mode autism and not recommending anything. what's your endgame? unless your too busy scratching your neckbeard drop a few recs or shut the fuck up.
Jaxson Harris
OP said "exploring extreme phil ideas", and I responded to that, you misreading idiot. So very naive.
Christopher Watson
>spoonfeeding autistic pleb incels
kys shitposter
the funny thing is that im probably one of the most knowledgeable about borges here. ive read a couple dozen books by and about him. and i do love him, and writers like him. if i shitpost, its because im talking on the level of people who are sincere but still shitpost worse.
Benjamin Martinez
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Aaron Edwards
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Robert Gray
why are you posting pics of your two moms?
Aiden Adams
oh man.
Levi Hall
What are some extreme philosophical ideas?
Benjamin Sullivan
Thomas Ligotti
Nick Land on Fanged Noumena and his recent novellas.
Leo Johnson
New sincerity
Easton Russell
go to therapy lmfao
Ryan King
>muh existentialism
I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked
Jace Roberts
Post-shitposting
Grayson Gray
thanks.
Joseph Wright
how can i read the temple of iconoclasts?
Brayden Powell
Some of Calvino's Cosmicomics fit this bill exactly.
James Perry
Buy it or get it from a library, unless you search for it on libgen and the like, I'm afraid. There's no readily available pdf, I've looked.
Got you senpaitachi
Juan Long
Neckbeard faggot.
Luis Watson
Krzhizhanovsky has been described by others as Borgesian, but I didn't really get much of that personally.
Similarly for Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, which I found massively overrated.
Victor Pelevin has some interesting ideas but isn't a great writer.
Villa-Matas is good.
The poetry of Pessoa.
Perhaps one ought to look back (in the manner of Kafka and his Precursors) instead. Poe is an obvious recommendation ("Who does not remember that, at such a time as this, the eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far off places, the woe which is close at hand?"). Chesterton becomes very Borgesian at times. Omar Khayyam certainly.
Lucas Parker
This, Italo Calvino is like a more humble and more fun Borges
Jose Lewis
>naive
I dont think you know what that word means.