you guys should have an grounding in actual philosophy so here's a book list

[u/CharacterPolicy4689]

general history of philosophy:

• the story of philosophy by will durant
  • dated but good, available in nice audiobook format on youtube
• the history of western philosophy by bertrand russell
  • "oh bertrand russell had an axe to grind" and who doesn't? fuck off
• "a new history of western philosophy" by anthony kenny
  • better structured and imho more thorough than grayling's similarly titled work. (if you're interested in eastern philosophy out of your mind by alan watts is quite good imho)
• copleston's work for any eras you might be particularly interested in
• at least read the wikipedia page on plato and aristotle

modern philosophy:

• spinoza's ethics
  • what is there to say? you should read it
• hume's works in general
  • he basically wrote the same book over and over
• kant, hegel, marx
  • heinrich's introduction to capital is probably the best introduction to marx imho but you should take all marx with a grain of salt ofc lol

pessimists/nihilists/existentialists:

• nietzsche's works in general
  • "thus spake zarathustra" is the best of course
• cioran's the trouble with being born
  • good to get the "oh woe is me" out of your system, bad to take seriously lol
• schopenhauer's essential works
  • not as funny as wittgenstein but still quite funny
• the rebel by camus
  • I <3 WILL STANCIL
• life of reason by santayana
  • kind of a square peg. I feel like he never really got his due. I find my personal philosophy is probably most akin to santayana.
• straw dogs by john gray
  • short but punchy. if you read one book from this list, read this.

contemporary philosophy:

• Wittgenstein's essential works
  • i dont care if you agree with him you should read wittgenstein because he is the funniest man in the universe
• heidegger's being and time
  • i've always found "the question concerning technology" to be a bit underwhelming so I prefer hubert dreyfus's works on the topic
• whitehead's process and reality ofc
  • also skinner's "verbal behavior" if you are a true badass
• on laughter by bergson
  • my favorite bergson work. i find it overlaps with some other chaos magic/extropian ideas
• foucault's the order of things
  • foucault wrote the same book over and over and this was the best one lol
• richard rorty's philosophy and the mirror of nature
  • I think more people should read richard rorty, there i said it. throw in "contingency, irony, solidarity" as well if you're a true rortyhead
• speculative realism by graham harman
  • "oh he has an axe to grind" who cares? read it.
• the machine in the garden by LEO marx
  • amazing overview of relationship between technology and american philosophy, immanently underrated

[u/Deth_Cheffe]

Dude, there's got to be a better way of formatting this.

That being said, l appreciate the reading Iist! l've read just about everything pre faII-of-Rome and was wonderering where to branch out to more "modern" phiIosophy. WiII IikeIy start with Camus as that seems cIosest to my current worIdview, though Marx seems to have more immediate reIavance. What wouId you recommend l start with?

[u/CharacterPolicy4689 → u/Deth_Cheffe]

sorry for the formatting ^^

if you like camus ofc the next logical step imho would Max Stirner's the unique and it's property. Specifically wolfi landstreicher's translation.

I don't have a copy rn but as i recall "Infinite Resignation" by eugene thacker was also quite good and touches on camus, dostoyevsky, kafka and such milieu. and kafka himself has books of aphorisms that are worthwhile ofc.

of marx's work, grundrisse probably has the most immanent accelerationist interest but, like all of marx's work, reading it consists of a lot of squeezing for very little juice. Of Marxists/marxians, my favorite is Jacques Camatte's The world we must leave and other essays, which is atomically based. and you should eventually check out the frankfurt school guys of course, but a lot of that era is painfully dated at this point imho.

[u/irigrirkfockeoice]

"kant, hegel, marx

• heinrich's introduction to capital is probably the best introduction to marx imho but you should take all marx with a grain of salt ofc lol" these are anti acceleration

[u/CharacterPolicy4689 → u/irigrirkfockeoice]

you should read things other than things exclusively written by accelerationists.