Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
by H.P. Lovecraft

Reading from various sources about the quizzical confusion about the diagnostic criteria around the issue of the ambiguity between autism , genius and madness.
The process by which the continuing debate may correspond to a literal continuum on which the issue could be appraised and narrowed down to manageable levels of approximation.

Anyone probably comment with sources of additional material, on the premis that a singularly read topic, transpires from a non assuming single text, that is quickly progressing to a collective singularity of inclusiveness .

Any takers in a cognitive default along the lines of Kurtzwell et. al. , toward the archetypical, all inclusive phenomenal unity between apprehension of sense and ‘ non-sense’ (representation)?

Yes.



I would recommend

Unhinged by Vera Valentine, which is smut starring a lady and her apartment's front door. Followed by Plowed By The Pumpkin King by Juno Delight, which is what it says on the tin.

‘who is afraid of Virginia Wolf’ Edward Albee excerpt line really moved me :
“… as Matthew exclaims, :


But it really happened” ( behind the green door)

Finally somebody's put some monster erotica in this thread.

Well, I was intrigued, so I found the cover:

That one was awful. Unhinged had no right to be as good as it was (it was still bad).

Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
by Terrence W. Deacon

The Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge

I wouldn't normally grab a fantasy title blind, but my brother (an unpublished fantasy/sci-fi author with an agent) not only recommended this, but bought it for me as a birthday gift. So far it's...a fantasy novel. I'm placing complete trust in my brother, and I do trust him, although our tastes aren't 100% aligned. It did win a Hugo.

Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Sizes & Lacan ; without rhyme, reason, confirmed/confirmed to a naysayer of present in a kid’s (being there) in a candy stire (‘Being There’- Jerzey Kosinski)

Very sorry it is Zizec and Lacan ( blame it on artificiality

Massive props to you dude. That book, after it very rough first 240 pages, just goes nuts. Utterly crazy, fun and brilliant! — Manuel

Finished yesterday, quite the trip, in the hallucinatory sense.

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler

Very much so, it's just crazy all over. Those last 150 pages or so, were very, very tough and I probably missed over 60-70% of the references, but, still, a good challenge.

:up:

Intentions
by Oscar Wilde

The Wild Duck

Ibsen


Was lucky enough to see Glenda Jackson in it !

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

@Joshs

Finished Rethinking Commonsense Psychology by Ratcliffe in addition to a couple of his papers that exemplify the method he champions in that book. I want to make a thread about the chicken joke!

The last chapter is particularly lucid, such a succinct presentation of the uneasy bedfellows [some species of] naturalism and [some species of] phenomenology make.

The overall project he has is fascinating. A form of eliminativism toward folk psychology that attempts to refine our understanding of social/psychological categories using a phenomenology of the everyday? Yes please. That he manages to articulate that methodology without asserting any kind of primacy to phenomenology is also very impressive, considering the sources he's drawing from.

That line of argument starkly reveals how impoverished propositional+sentential attitudes are in explaining why and how people do what they do. And especially how people feel. They don't touch the conceptual content of the folk psychology ideas they presuppose, and cannot.

The critical part of the book I enjoyed most was him being both sympathetic to, and strongly undermining, Dennett's heterophenomenology concept. He sees that Dennett's intentional stance is not a personal relation toward another - it's toward their experiences and reports from the third person, not toward a "you". This thus doesn't allow an appropriate encounter with what people are concerned with, or how people really think about what they concern.

That said, the papers I read from him, while insightful, seem to be pulling the same trick. It's a good trick, but it's the same trick. The trick is temporalising a (social or affective) state to distribute it over a history of situations and future of development - eg the looking at the conceptual content of the assertions "It hasn't settled in" and "I don't believe it" in various circumstances. A drinking game for those papers would be "sip every time Ratcliffe uses the phrase "significant life possibilities"". That body of work has a delicious, for the forum, encounter between OLP type analysis and phenomenology that I want to explore.

I will be reading more from him. His book Experiences of Depression is my next philosophy read.

Time for my annual reading list 2023 edition. Far fewer books read this year than in prior years, no doubt a result of having read several books that were 700+ pages, in addition to simply having less time on my hands. Next year would like to delve into Asian history, so any recommendations are welcomed. Happy New Year everyone!

• Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Wood (reread)
• Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
• The New Spirit of Capitalism by Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski
• 1848: Year of Revolution by Michael Rapport
• The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War by Arno J. Mayer
• Caravaggio: The Complete Works by Sebastian Schutze
• Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In by C. L. R. James
• The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai
• The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations by Benno Teschke
• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L Winberg
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler

Andvake; Olavs draumar; Kveldsvaevd (Trilogien), Jon Fosse.

Excellent. Fosse is not disappointing me and after nearly finishing the first short story of this trilogy, I am very pleased and happy. I understand better now why he considers silence an important part of his literature. I recommend this book to you, @Metaphysician Undercover. It has 160 pages, and it is written in a special method which I had never read until I discovered this author. For example:

My father left, Alida said.
I don’t have siblings, said.
I know you have a sister, said.
Yes, I have a sister and her name is Oline, Asle said
I don’t like her, said.
They remain silent, and they don’t say anything more.

And there are more dialogues similar to the one above where silence is key between Asle and Alida (the main characters), but because I always lack expressing myself correctly, I can’t really explain the beauty of them using just pauses and a silence.

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Collingwood and the reform of metaphysics;: A study in the philosophy of mind
by Lionel Rubinoff

The latter was a bookstore find. It's an impressive tome, with such provocative chapters as "The Essay as a response to logical positivism" and "Metaphysics as a dialectical history of errors."

Since I won't be finishing those this year, here's my 2023 reading summary, grouped by fiction/non-fiction and author

Non-Fiction

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
The Birth of Tragedy: from the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
Feuerbach: The Roots of Socialist Philosophy by Friedrich Engels
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom
1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jurgen Habermas
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze
Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties by Gilles Deleuze
The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel by Eduardo Mendieta
Theory of Society, Volume 1 (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Niklas Luhmann
Theory of Society, Volume 2 (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Niklas Luhmann
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition by Ernst Cassirer
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer
Ontology: Laying the Foundations by Nicolai Hartmann
The poverty of historicism by Karl Popper
Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel
Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey
Pragmatism by William James
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon

Fiction

Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3) by Marcel Proust
Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4) by Marcel Proust
The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5) by Marcel Proust
Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #6) by Marcel Proust
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Triplanetary (Lensman, #1) by E.E. "Doc" Smith
First Lensman (Lensman, #2) by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Galactic Patrol (Lensman, #3) by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
Island nights entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction by H.P. Lovecraft
Intentions by Oscar Wilde

I just finished Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault (really recommended), I´m currently reading Pensées by Blaise Pascal and I´m about to start White Nights by F. Dostoyevski

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky.

Just given Letters from a Stoic for Xmas. Diving in.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Re-reading:

Plotinus by Eyjolfur K. Emilsson

Reading:

The Final Curtain by Keigo Higashino

Plotinus by Eyjolfur K. Emilsson — Manuel

I read this one! How did you become interested in Plotinus?

I read this one! How did you become interested in Plotinus? — frank

As I am working on Cudworth's philosophy, I found that he frequently cited Plotinus in favor of his views and I found such views very interesting.

So, I got this book originally for Kindle, but wanted a paper back for closer study, it's very good.

:up:

Reading list 2024:

Ulysses by James Joyce, the fisting scene specifically.