(Part 3) Reddit mentions: The best european literary history books

If you want an online version of Hume's Enquiry then use this one, unlike the one linked below it has the Selby-Bigge page numbers and properly marked paragraphs that any Hume scholar will refer to (The Selby-Bigge page numbers are very important though because anyone who refers to Hume in a citation will use these numbers). In terms of print versions Peter Millican (one of the top Hume scholars in the world) has an excellent affordable edition in the Oxford world classics series, but the definitive scholarly edition is this one edited by Tom Beauchamp. I find Hume very approachable, especially in the first Enquiry, but everyone differs - however if you've found Descartes easy enough to follow I should think you'll find Hume easy enough as well.

Cavafy is a Greek poet from the late 19th/early 20th c. I bought my edition because it's dual language, but I do like the translation.

Also Cesar Vallejo, a 20th c. Peruvian poet. I have this edition, which I quite like, although my Spanish is not good enough to say much about the translation quality.

It looks a ton of this stuff has been translated into English.

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood is the story of a railroad workers strike told from the workers' perspective, and the community tensions that are exposed during the strike. Almost all of his movies are also up on Amazon, and they're all worth checking out. He's not known as the father of African cinema for nothing.

Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggar's Strike is about a city trying to clean up its homeless/beggar population, who retaliate by going on strike, which causes chaos since giving alms to the needy is a requirement in Islam (and the city's elite were fulfilling their divinely mandated charity by giving to the striking beggars).

Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child is less about leftist class politics and more a meditation on gender identity and gender roles in Arabic society. It's the story of a father who after having seven straight daughters decides to raise his eighth daughter as a son.

Aime Cesaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is a book-length poem that's a mediation on blackness and colonialism and arguably the defining work of the Negritude movement.

Neither Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent or Maryse Conde's [Crossing the Mangrove] (https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Mangrove-Maryse-Conde/dp/0385476337/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501603791&sr=1-3&keywords=maryse+conde) are particularly focused on leftist class politics but they're still fascinating for their explorations of Creole identity. They're both murder mysteries; the Chamoiseau novel is basically a police procedural and the Conde one is a mystery that's slowly unspooled through the eyes of various villagers.

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I started with a multiplayer prototype that only had the swapping mechanic. That slowly mutated into a single player experience because I wasn't satisfied with the kind of emotions it was invoking and felt the entire game was a bit shallow. The idea itself was indirectly inspired by this book: http://www.amazon.com/Living-Soul-Norvik-Press-Series/dp/1870041097

I'm personally very fond of Hilda Ellis Davidson's Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. It's scholarly, it covers all the Germanic evidence not just the Scandinavian, and doesn't add anything that is not really there. And of course there's always the incomparable Snorri Sturluson. I recommend Jean Young's translation.

Oh, sorry, I thought I responded to you. Guess my reply didn't go through.

Yeah, you should attempt to relearn how to read. If you're reading really slowly, then that's going to cause a lot of problems down the road. A good speed reading book will teach you how to read and how to read quickly. Could also pair it with a reading comprehension book (I personally teach from Deeper Reading and Critical Encounters in High School English. Use the Deeper reading one first. Critical Encounters is to get to college level reading while Deeper reading lays the foundation).

I have taught people how to speed read. I have taken students with 120 WPM and English as their second language and got them to read at around 500-600 WPM and now they're off in medical school. It does work. It takes time (about two months I've seen if you dedicate a small amount of time every day), but the results are worth it. Relearning a proper way to read can greatly help. While I doubt you have a reading disability, even then, this would help. Every person who came to me for help with reading speed, as long as they kept to it, eventually made it to 400 WPM at least. Several made it to 600 WPM and higher.

Yasemin Yildiz's Beyond the Mother Tongue seems like it could be of interest to you.

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He wrote in English so pick based on your desire for hardcover, paperback, etc.

I like this one just because it's part of the collected works.

Your tone betray's a sense of certainty about what you think you know, and that can be a trap friend. Imagine the things you could learn if you gave others the opportunity to say something new and to follow them down path's that you assume to be sloppy or lazy.

I just came across something in one of Barthes' late lectures that you may find surprising.

Maybe he had earned the right to be sloppy and lazy by virtue of his corpus of work, whereas grad students like us are forced to cower at the expectations of academia and disciplinary boundaries lest we try and say something different

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> So you admit apologists are at odds and cannot seem to excuse this word or explain it as a wild ox or a rhino, which is it?

The Hebrew word means "wild ox," the English word means "rhinoceros." I've explained this all very clearly already, so for asking the question I am assigning an extra book, Don Juan by Lord Byron. Hop to it.

I get glimpses of genius from the "Wake". which flatters me to thinking i am the genius, when actually it's Joyce.

the parts i don't understand were something i used to blame on Joyce, but came to realize it's me not being as smart as i thought i was (something everyone eventually learns to deal with).

THIS helped a great deal. it's one man's take on the Wake, and not definitive. but it sure makes a damn lot of sense.

I would suggest any translation by NTdG, they are only going to get harder/more expensive to find.

This brown volume is worth snagging, it has a lot of NTdG translations and translations by others and is a cut above the Penguin Collected Fictions in my opinion

https://www.amazon.com/Borges-Reader-Selection-Writings-Jorge/dp/0525476547/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497822676&sr=8-1&keywords=monegal+reid+borges

His translation of The Book of Sand is the stand-alone NTdG translation I would most highly recommend to a Borges fan though, if you're willing to drop the cheddar

https://www.amazon.com/Jorge-Luis-Borges-Book-Sand/dp/B000P23CAI/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497822818&sr=1-5&keywords=book+of+sand+borges

US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BCK9FNT

Are there more? I couldn't find any other free ones going through the similarly listed items.

Thank you for the recommendation. I also posted this question to /r/askphilosophy and ended up buying the book "Rene Girards Mimetic Theory" by Wolfgang Palavar. Thread and amazon link to the book are below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/6dk8dy/recommended_rene_girard_readings_on_mimetic_desire/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=user&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=frontpage

https://www.amazon.com/Girards-Mimetic-Studies-Violence-Mimesis/dp/1611860776

I’ve got it- https://www.amazon.com/Using-German-Guide-Contemporary-Usage/dp/0521530008 (this might be an old edition though). It’s very good

> This is such an interesting topic

I found what I was looking for, although it turned out I was remembering a lot of the details incorrectly. It was a collection of fairy tales from the Weimar Republic, not the third Reich.

I had to go through a lot of specifically worded Google searches to find it, and if you're really interested I did find this book: Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany. I haven't read it, but I will soon! I ordered it.

The 3 books on Amazon:

> Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution (2013), by Marisa Linton

> The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics (2012), by Sandra Perovic

> The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France (2013), by Richard Taws

Here's a good introduction:
https://www.amazon.com/Girards-Mimetic-Studies-Violence-Mimesis/dp/1611860776

Positive: I just got a batch of books from my museum's annual book sale! Relevant to here are: The Stolen Prince, Hugh Barnes; Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750-1880, Jane Rendall (1990); Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850, Dianne Dugaw (1989); To Ornament Their Minds: Sara Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy 1792-1833, Litchfield Historical Society (1993); Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860, Jane C. Nylander (1993); and Women's Life & Work in the Southern Colonies, Julia Cherry Spruill (1938, but reprinted in 1977 and it seems to be good scholarship). Good deals on a few of those! It would be more handy to have them as ebooks but at 50c-$1, you can't beat the price. I fully intend to read them soon but read Rachel Dratch's memoir first and am now on the complete short stories of Dorothy Parker. It was a good sale.

Negative: It's an awful sale. We got an insane number of books donated this year and I was run ragged setting it all up with only a couple of volunteers, only one able to really do anything physical. Very few books have sold, and we're going to be left with a still-insane number to get rid of. All the local libraries are having their sales this weekend so nobody wants the remainder. What are we going to do??

http://www.amazon.com/The-Seed-Yggdrasill-Deciphering-Messages/dp/8792632289

Rekommenderar denna för alla nybörjare. Maria har också en YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyoftheLabyrinth/videos) där hon går igenom viktiga detaljer för någon som är intresserad. Och nej, det är inte bara någon random som bestämt sig för att sätta upp en kamera i sitt rum: http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/iks/2004/18497/AUTO/18497.pdf.

Jag brukar undvika alla som försöker tampas med kulturhistoria, för det blir oftast massa New Age. Maria tar dock det väldigt seriöst och vetenskapligt. Det är ett helt annat perspektiv när du lärt dig språket och dedikerat en sådan stor del av ditt liv att förstå det.

Och sedan, självklart, Havamal. Jag rekommenderar att läsa den ifrån fornnordiska, eftersom det går ihop mycket snyggare och det får en annan kontext. Det är dock lite bökigt för någon som är ny: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html

Problemet med Asatron är att det fanns en väldigt etablerad symbolik igenom familjeträd (vi älskade våra familjeträd, titta på Iceland Sagas) och nu är systemet "borta". Men det återstår så väldigt mycket.

Och om du vill ha ett direkt exempel, lyssna på: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evE6aLg-_Q8

Följ gärna också Einar i Wardruna som spenderat lång tid att studera innebörden av runor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCLPH615utU

Fróðr sama tíl hǫfuð sáer reynr.

Two different tenses. Ich wusste = imperfect, ich habe gewusst = perfect. The perfect is used more day to day (effectively, I have known, but also I knew...), the imperfect in more formal writing as well as the "was ...ing" continuous past sense.

If you're stuck on this, do some more reading on the different uses of the imperfect and perfect tenses. My favourite, the one I refer to all the time and the one I refer my students to, is Durrell's pretty much definitive Using German, which I've used for 20 years but looks quite pricey now sadly.

Reed it at your leisure, bon voyage, avec les-yeux, sans visage.

O but mainly unterstand that what it is is what many say it isn't: a real and truly werked out story of the night.

It contrails many entrained trains of thought, but is ultrameantly a cohesive multi-storied single story comprising many ministories, each a storey of our Tower of Bauble.

Real-eyes that eachant effery word/wort/world May or mightn't half/have/halve/haft multi-tipple meanings/minings/linings/leanings, both in Anglish and in other languishes.

And read outside of it a little bit which's been writ about it, and it'll hint at the wit both in it, and the lit which other wits have written in their interpreting of it. viz: Book of the Dark and to wit: Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake

Pluck it up, and put it down, as required. Shelf it while you muddle or re-read other books. Go back into it from the front, or back into it from the rear.

Be open.

So you think you can argue by giving me links to a book on amazon.com? And, its not such an open and shut case as you'd hope, and I highly doubt this solves the problem of induction. I'm not going to argue this here, but I think if you're going to link to a book on amazon I'm entitled to link to another.

http://www.amazon.ca/Enquiry-concerning-Human-Understanding/dp/0199549907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398018671&sr=1-1&keywords=hume

And because I'm a jackass. one more

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Method-Paul-Feyerabend/dp/1844674428/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398018826&sr=8-1&keywords=against+method