Recommend books in this thread
#1
The version in Salo Forum of this thread led to #Nemets, who knows where will this thread lead to?

Currently reading Adam Tooze's The Deluge.
#2
Currently reading the Memoir of Carl Mannerheim, leader of Finish White Guard forces during the Civil War of 1918 and later Marshal of Finland in 1942. Here he is pictured with Uncle Adolph. Also reading an introductory book on Finish history by Eino Jutikkala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gusta...Mannerheim

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#3
Would any of you happen to know the best translator of Nietzsche's works? Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra as translated by Hollingdale. Seems good, but I'm not proficient enough in German to read the original, so I couldn't tell.
#4
(03-16-2022, 12:22 AM)cats Wrote: Would any of you happen to know the best translator of Nietzsche's works? Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra as translated by Hollingdale. Seems good, but I'm not proficient enough in German to read the original, so I couldn't tell.

Hollingdale is good; I think he is considered to accurately capture the deep philosophical meaning behind Nietzsche's work, at the expense of being less stylistically clean. Walter Kaufmann is the other big Nietzsche translator, and his shortcomings seem to run in the opposite direction - great style, but does not properly get at the complexity of N's thought, and at time reading Kaufmann alone will lead you to not fully understanding N's position. Because I think Nietzsche's style is so important, I would recc Kaufmann for the future but you aren't going wrong per se with Hollingdale. Overall though both are fine unless you really expect to get into the fine details, at which case you'll likely be reading both translations or just reading N in German.

Here is an article on the shortcomings of Kaufmann's Nietzsche translation though, in case interested. JSTOR gives you 100 article reads/month so this might be worth using one on:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jni....43.1.0068
#5
I always read one piece of fiction along with one piece of non-fiction.

The piece of fiction is Berserk because I've heard it's basically Nietszche without Nietszche, and because irl fren is really into it and I made him watch Evangelion so I decided to read his fav piece of jap shit back.
>inb4 anime/manga ghey

The nonfiction piece is Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, supplemented with Gardner's "Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason". No, I haven't read the philosophers before this, because I value my time.

I have a lot of work to do for the next three weeks until Eastern break, So it'll take a while for me to complete these two (already exaggerated due to Berserk's length and CPR's complexity). For context the piece of fiction I read before Berserk was Patrick White's Voss (which you can read my review of here -> https://verl.substack.com/p/book-review-...rick-white) which was about 500 pages and had similar high-level prose to CPR, and it took me a month.

Thanks for reading my blog post.
#6
(03-16-2022, 12:22 AM)cats Wrote: Would any of you happen to know the best translator of Nietzsche's works? Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra as translated by Hollingdale. Seems good, but I'm not proficient enough in German to read the original, so I couldn't tell.

I won't say it's the best (not knowledgeable enough for such wide statements) but Ludovici's translation is certainly the groyperish.
#7
Kaufmann is a snivelling Kike not a good translator of Nietsche
#8
translation by error bias due to political climate of the times

kaufmann=n wasnt a scary proto-nazi, a kike like me proves it with my version
hollingdale=n is compatible with libtardism
ludovici=n was as much a retarded rwer as me, you might even call him a wigmutt amarnite

>translations
if you really like n, learn german, dont be a translation faggot
#9
Just bought Toby Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. Book looks promising but damn was it expensive.
#10
(03-16-2022, 01:57 AM)Verl Wrote: I always read one piece of fiction along with one piece of non-fiction.

The piece of fiction is Berserk because I've heard it's basically Nietszche without Nietszche, and because irl fren is really into it and I made him watch Evangelion so I decided to read his fav piece of jap shit back.
>inb4 anime/manga ghey

The nonfiction piece is Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, supplemented with Gardner's "Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason". No, I haven't read the philosophers before this, because I value my time.

I have a lot of work to do for the next three weeks until Eastern break, So it'll take a while for me to complete these two (already exaggerated due to Berserk's length and CPR's complexity). For context the piece of fiction I read before Berserk was Patrick White's Voss (which you can read my review of here -> https://verl.substack.com/p/book-review-...rick-white) which was about 500 pages and had similar high-level prose to CPR, and it took me a month.

Thanks for reading my blog post.

Delayed response but if you do end up reading Kant's Critique, do post any comments or questions you have about the work. I've read it a few times and even wrote some papers on it for School so I'm happy to talk about it or provide guidance; I'm a big Kant fan.
#11
I am currently reading Mikaberidze's The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. I know very little European history from post-Roman Empire until WWI and am gradually filling in the gaps. Though Napoleon and his military campaigns are obviously very important to this work Mikaberidze spends a lot more time on the geopolitical aspects of Europe at the time (and the broader world when its relevant) and goings-on in other countries, which I've found useful for understanding Europe at the time. I am interested in recommendations for books to read covering the periods both pre- and post-Napoleonic Wars (particularly the unification of Germany).
#12
(04-07-2022, 03:31 PM)doppelbanger Wrote: I am currently reading Mikaberidze's The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. I know very little European history from post-Roman Empire until WWI and am gradually filling in the gaps. Though Napoleon and his military campaigns are obviously very important to this work Mikaberidze spends a lot more time on the geopolitical aspects of Europe at the time (and the broader world when its relevant) and goings-on in other countries, which I've found useful for understanding Europe at the time. I am interested in recommendations for books to read covering the periods both pre- and post-Napoleonic Wars (particularly the unification of Germany).
Sadly can't help you with Germany. Simon Schama is a bit of a libcuck but his book 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the Revolution' is still a very good book on the topic of the French Rev. It covers from the time from the reign of Louis XVI to the Thermidorian Reaction. It's a rather long book but very good. Biggest issue with finding books on the Fr. Rev. is so many of them (especially now) are written by Marxists, hence Schama being a libcuck is tolerable in comparison to the rest of the popular literature.
#13
(04-02-2022, 10:50 PM)Leverkühn Wrote:
(03-16-2022, 01:57 AM)Verl Wrote: I always read one piece of fiction along with one piece of non-fiction.

The piece of fiction is Berserk because I've heard it's basically Nietszche without Nietszche, and because irl fren is really into it and I made him watch Evangelion so I decided to read his fav piece of jap shit back.
>inb4 anime/manga ghey

The nonfiction piece is Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, supplemented with Gardner's "Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason". No, I haven't read the philosophers before this, because I value my time.

I have a lot of work to do for the next three weeks until Eastern break, So it'll take a while for me to complete these two (already exaggerated due to Berserk's length and CPR's complexity). For context the piece of fiction I read before Berserk was Patrick White's Voss (which you can read my review of here -> https://verl.substack.com/p/book-review-...rick-white) which was about 500 pages and had similar high-level prose to CPR, and it took me a month.

Thanks for reading my blog post.

Delayed response but if you do end up reading Kant's Critique, do post any comments or questions you have about the work. I've read it a few times and even wrote some papers on it for School so I'm happy to talk about it or provide guidance; I'm a big Kant fan.
I felt that starting with Kant was a bit too far (although I did enjoy what I read), so I've switched to A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. Would you recommend actually 'starting with the Greeks' and working your way up through the works? Also what's your @ on Twitter.
#14
(04-18-2022, 08:26 AM)Verl Wrote:  I felt that starting with Kant was a bit too far (although I did enjoy what I read), so I've switched to A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. Would you recommend actually 'starting with the Greeks' and working your way up through the works?

I really like Plato and Aristotle, personally, but you don't need to read them in order to understand subsequent thought, in that sense it's a meme. It's not going to greatly enhance your reading of Kant's Critiques; there are a few nods to them (mostly to Plato) but that's about it. If you had to read anything to 'prepare yourself for Kant,' it'd be Descartes, Leibniz, and Hume. But I'm sort of a believer in the idea that any really good thinker should be readable on their own, with only a slight amount of background knowledge. As far as reading the history of philosophy goes, read that Kenny book (I like him a lot), and just read the thinkers you find interesting. A book like that should probably be able to prepare you for Kant, and reading or listening to lectures on the work will be more helpful than reading 400 pages of Leibniz and Christian Wolff anyway. There's no point in reading half a dozen philosophical tomes you might not like just because they'll help you understand someone you are actually interested in. Maybe if you read Kant and fall in love with his work, you can take the more scholarly approach of reading what he read to better understand him, but again, that's way beyond a first reading where you're mostly just going to be trying to understand the broader strokes of the work.

I checked out that Gardner book, and while I hadn't heard of him he seems like a respectable scholar. I think the go-to book in Kant studies is Henry Allison's 'Kant's Transcendental Idealism,' but again I don't think it's necessary.
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#15
personally I started with Descartes' meditations and was utterly confused by basically every single use he made of scholastic terminology. probably best to start with a textbook.

>I never could understand... why such reasonable and enobled peoples as the Italians, the English and the French are, could follow yonder sophistical philistine, who was so bad a mathematician.

he was a good friend
#16
I've mentioned the book on Twitter a few times and on this forum as well, but I'd recommend Illiberal Reformers to anyone interested in late18th/early19th century history of the United States, specifically the Progressive Era. The book does a good job of detailing the rise of the administrative state in the US, and the transformation from a nominally laissez faire economy [there were still government regulations, but getting into this would take some time] to an economy guided by experts trained to manage the State in universities. It documents the birth of Taylorism/Scientific Management in the US as well as how many of the same reformers who wanted to modernize our economy also had grand wishes to promote eugenic policies that would better the people themselves. Leonard is pretty explicit in how he looks down on this evil side to the illiberal reformers, but not so much he doesn't detail their actions and the reasons behind them. I had posted some small threads on the book on other Twitter accounts I had (which have since been banned); here's a couple posts on the modernization of the US university and the influence of the German academic system on our to-be progressive reformers:
https://twitter.com/LeverDeKooning/statu...uLuMPmGL3Q

Besides that book, for the past couple months I've been slowly working my way through Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle. The most famous of the novels in this cycle would be The Book of the New Sun. Around Christmastime/New Years I finished the Book of the New Sun, then in February/March I read Urth of the New Sun. After a short break I've recently started the Book of the Long Sun, which is turning out to be good so far. I don't want to give away too much about the books but as far as sci-fi/fantasy authors go, Wolfe seems to be one of the best prose stylists I've seen, and this really shows in The Book of the New Sun more than any of the other works. If you have any interest in sci-fi and fantasy I'd strongly recommend giving these books a read.
#17
This is one of the best primary sources on the k.u.k. Armee in English, and the unique commentary provides a number of quotations, interjections, and elaborations conducive to further study. 

Austria-Hungary's Last War, 1914-1918 (comroestudios.com)
#18
Just finished the Inferno part of Dante's Divine Comedy, and have found it very enjoyable. I'm reading the Ciardi Translation which seems to flow pretty well, and has ample notes at the end of every Canto along with a pretty good introduction. There's also a summary before every Canto saying what happens, which I find a bit too much but I guess it's useful if you're having trouble following the verse. 

In addition to the Comedy I'm also reading a book on Dante by the literary critic Erich Auerbach, link here. I read the book years ago for school and have enjoyed reading through it again. As far as literary critics go, Auerbach is top-rate, and even if you're not interested in Dante specifically I'd still recommend his more famous work, Mimesis, if literary criticism is something that interests you at all. The book covers authors from Homer through Virginia Woolf as Auerbach crafts story linking together various periods of Western literature.
#19
Read "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Borges today. Very fascinating read, very intelligent. I made a comparison between the attitude of the public at the end of the story to the defenders of the reliatevely obscure 'scripture' "The Urantia Book" on Twitter.

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#20
There was a recent thread on twitter where someone listed out every book recommendation made by BAP on his podcast Caribbean Rhythms.

Find it here:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1585397321051013120

More readable here:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/15853...13120.html


Hopefully with this post people will remember this thread exists and give some more recommendations.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.




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