I am way out of practice, and I never read much Heidegger. Still, it's fun to guess. They all seemed like Merleau-Ponty to me, but I varied my answers because I don't really know! It's nice to read some selections again anyway.
I am glad to have provided ou with this small amount of pleasure. :-)
I'm glad they all sounded similar, i was trying to find sentences about the same subject that sounded as close together as possible, and in some cases sounding like one of the others as opposed to themselves!
I thought I was soooo out of practice. Maybe i can hack at this philosophy thing after all. but still, it's so much easier to read in novel form. Any philosophic fiction suggestions?
When I read my fiction, I prefer it to be as far away from philosophy as possible. If you are looking for thoughtful stuff, though, André Gide is good (The Counterfeiters, The Immoralist) as are Thomas Mann (Death in Venice) and Hermann Hesse (The Glass Bead Game, Narcissus and Goldman). Of course that's all "heavy" stuff, and not their only good works, but you asked for "philosophical", so I figured that's what you wanted.
Knowing you, I would read The Immoralist. I think you would like that (and it is a shorter novel). Of course, this could just turn out to be more evidence of how I misunderstand people.
Wow. I am way out of practice, too (especially since the only philosophy I've read this summer has been a less than generous serving of classical American pragmatism and critical theory). My method of determining who wrote what is also less than accurate ("'Visible'? Oh! That must be good ol' Maurice! 'Universe'? Georg it is!"). Kudos on choosing my five favorites, though (although I could do without some of Freddy's earlier writings)! :-)
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I'm glad they all sounded similar, i was trying to find sentences about the same subject that sounded as close together as possible, and in some cases sounding like one of the others as opposed to themselves!
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I thought I was soooo out of practice. Maybe i can hack at this philosophy thing after all. but still, it's so much easier to read in novel form. Any philosophic fiction suggestions?
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Knowing you, I would read The Immoralist. I think you would like that (and it is a shorter novel). Of course, this could just turn out to be more evidence of how I misunderstand people.
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I'm reading Brave New World now...i'll put the immoralist on deck. thanks!
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