I feel like camus political beliefs and works often go unaddressed. The context of them is critical to understanding absurdism. Without it people tend to assume it is a defeatist ideology.

This was so insightful. Wonderful video!

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The guy looked like a Virgin haha

Madame, you look like a twin of Cecelia Blomdahl who does a podcast from Longyearbyen, Norway. Her mannerisms are like yours and probably her reading interests are like yours. You're twins and both of you are beautiful inside and out.

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Camus is probably my favorite philosopher.

I was today years old when I understood the concept of eternal recurrence. Thanks for this! My college classes were unnecessarily complex lol

Its simple - Psychology is now more political than ever. It leans left in politics. Academia as well. There is no studies or progress made enough on men's issues for example than how it is used comically for anything that supports the narrative. For instance its comical to see "Studies" that having a father causes psychological oppression. You can't make this up. That is one example from many.

Trouble is YOUR the other people

well, sartre seems to have been just too ignorant to realize that he said some nonsense. too bad! very human, though. can't blame him in the sense that being aware of the nonsensicality of desert-aptness makes one aware of the absurdity of blaming anyone, but of course someone who is ignorant about this can still blame, insofar as blaming is just a particular cluster of occurrences that we may construe as distinct from other clusters in virtue of its differences and relations to other clusters. but if one understands that the unexamined assumptions that supposedly justified or made blaming 'make sense' do not, in fact, appear to make sense at all, then one can dissolve this phantasm and stop perpetuating this meme. how nifty! this is still a generalisation based on actual people's experiences, and is either entirely deterministic or random, or a mixture, but not 'free'. everything that is possible, is actual. what's never actual, has never been possible. sorry, sartre, but most of your work is incoherent riffing that's captured the attention of some because it's entertaining, obscure enough for ~endless interpretation and able to stimulate mental states that get people to engage repeatedly. it's a successful memeplex. alas, memes are perfectly indifferent to aspects of reality that aren't utilized for their replication. that's why most memeplexes are remarkably congruent with BS -- an indifference to truth.

Being and Nothingness, is a brilliant misunderstanding of Being and Time. Heidegger actually read it and is reported to have said; 'How can I even begin to read this muck, I hate this man...'

Beautiful❤

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To me his view as you've explained it here sounds equally unbalanced as those who say there is no free-will at all but he goes in the opposite direction. I think the truth is in between. Our experiences during our formative years color our perspective and the decisions we make aren't made under clear transparent objectivity. We don't see the world as it is, it is a reflection of our inner selves. Much of what goes on in our inner world is shaped by our past experiences. Many of these formative experiences we have no control over during our vulnerable youth. I suspect people have less free-will than most imagine, but I think we have a significant amount, enough to make a difference in how we experience our lives, and yes this effects others and the world. I think it is demonstrably true that we can't just pick and choose everything about our own destinies, certain things are laid out for us. I don't think Sartre used his own unbounded free will to make his own eyes look like that, and the fact his eyes looked like they did no doubt effected his experiences. It is not a matter of blaming this or that, it is of acceptance and recognition that there are advantages and problems within any situation we may find ourselves in. We often grow under adversity and mistakes are tools for transformation and usually the most effective teachers.

I enjoyed this! It sounds like an interesting book that I might have to look into. I wonder if the brother in law scheming to paint the protagonist with flowers so he can see her body is meant to show her sense of autonomy/identity being attacked in new ways? Someone who tries to take a bit of control back by eating a plant-based diet is then objectified by someone eager to decorate her skin with plants for his own gratification.

'Hell is other people' wasn't about inauthenticity, it was about existential shame. When we are observed, we become aware of ourselves and our own short comings, just like the example Sartre gave around the peeping Tom looking through the keyhole being discovered by a third person. Of course he did have a lot to say about inauthenticity, such as the waiter 'being' a waiter, but 'Hell is other people' wasn't it

People , there the worst.

Some insightful points, but I don't think that hating others is necessary or useful. One can avoid others, be indifferent to their opinions and love oneself without hating others. Hating being around people, hating the masks and the inauthenticity I can understand. Hating the people themselves, no. This said I acknowledge sometimes those kinds of feelings will come up involuntarily, but if that mentality is cultivated I think that it will come back to oneself in a harmful way.

hell is his eyesite

We are owned by other ppl since the day we are born... For me hell is whole existence, even space-time life is so shit wish i was never born - Wisdom of Silenius

Well said. Thank you.

Yeah there’s a book something about a monk’s office and hell is other people LMAO

Life is full of compromises. If a compromise fills us with resentment, then we have overstepped our personal boundaries, or not understood the limits of reality properly.

Three marriages? They all had one thing in common 😂

The first time I read "Ulysses" about 30 years ago I read it without any study guide but after a few pages started reading aloud and found it so enjoyable to do so. The language is so musical! A few years ago I decided to read it again and to really decipher the "bits and pieces" that you alluded too. So I read the novel along with "Ulysses Annotated" by Gifford and Seidman which I highly recommend for nerdy readers (like myself) who want to understand every allusion and reference in the book. But definitely, read it aloud!

Reader interpretation is another version of Joyce’s many levels of meaning . But beyond that there is the approach questioning the motives that drove Joyce. His bliss, his loneliness, his cynicism and his anger twained with his personal despair are the horses that draw the sleigh. I believe that his anger and despair are so bleak that most critics refuse to even consider that side of the book

What many call hate speech actually turns out to be just egoism on their part.

You ought to consider his critique of Henry James' _The Bostonians_ as you judge Twain's feminist credentials.

Thank you, nice video. I thought you maybe would had gave tips about the prose and structure since most of the ones you said are kinda known, but it would had made a very large video. Still helpful, thanks!

Great one, thank you so much!

How my heart doth sing with joy to hear of thy love for this video! 'Tis a wondrous thing, in truth, and doth bring much mirth and merriment to the soul.

For further reading, consider: Tolstoy’s Theory of Nonviolence; philosophynow.org/issues/54/Tolstoys_Theory_of_Nonviolence Tolstoy’s Ideology of Nonviolence: qurtuba.edu.pk/thedialogue/The%20Dialogue/7_4/Dialogue_October_December2012_347-363.pdf

I have this upon my shelf: Unread! I'll have to get to it, soon!

So in this little video modernism is defined as: "individualism" "Stream of consciousness" "exile" and Loss of faith" "Raw emotion" "authentic connection to the reader" "emotional engagements" "emphasizing with a characters deep internal conflict," and focus on a "characters personal feelings." if it doesn't have all those "things" it's not a modernist book. Listening to people talk about modernism is like watching a child play with a chainsaw.

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Thank you! If I weren't already committed to reading The Divine Comedy (all of it) and Middlemarch, I'd dive into Ulysses right now (or, at least, after reading The Odyssey).

Wow, this video really shed light on the fascinating connection between Freud and literature! As someone who loves both psychology and literature, it's amazing to see how Freud's ideas have weaved their way into the fabric of so many literary works. I think the reason Freud resonates more in literary circles is because his theories beautifully capture the complexities of the human psyche, which writers can explore and portray in their characters. This video definitely deepened my appreciation for Freud's influence in the literary world!

Great video! Would you make a video talking about how non-English-speakers start enjoying English literature?

May I remind you of Henry David Thoreau's remark, "I have traveled a great deal in Concord"

Interesting idea. Best wishes with your reading choices this year. I'm a fan of Hemingway and he mentions being friends and meeting Joyce in Paris when he was young and trying to be a writer - in his book of short stories, 'A moveable feast.'

Great editing; good one, Dr K 🇮🇪 The paralysis started in _Dubliners_ continues throughout _U;_ the fact that no one travels any great distance, at all. ☘

Great insight! Your great narrative voice sounds just like like Holly Hunter. I can’t even tell the difference.

I love both Mme Bovary and Don Quixote. I have just finished Flaubert's biography and letters, and I was glad to see he admired Cervantes for writing Don Quixote. :)

Дуже цікавий розбір твору та корисне відео, дякую!

i'm sure i can read any novel in modern english in 18 days if i wanted, though that desire would not be equal across all possible selections

First reading took me three months. Worth every minute.

I just flipped through my copy and I'm not sure what an "episode" is. Sometimes there are horizontal lines dividing the text, sometimes a paragraph starts with one or a few words all in capital letters and sometimes the first letter is really big, spanning 3 lines. My guess is the last one is the one indicating the start of a new episode, but I'm not sure.

This twice-in-18-days method sounds great! -- if you don't have a job or kids, that is. I first opened Ulysses when I was a precocious 13-year-old, and was immediately held in a trance throughout chapter 1. As you might imagine, by the start of chapter 3, I was totally lost. I came back to it three years later, and managed to finish it over about a month (I was fairly accustomed to reading a novel in a day or so at the time). Fortunately, I had by then a fair amount of practice in reading above my station, ploughing through and savouring the literary effect of the moment, without too much concern for the higher meaning. I've since found that every time I've re-read Ulysses (6 reads in total now) it reveals more to me than the previous time -- more likely, it is me bringing another 5 or 6 years of experience to it and the novel is reflecting that back at me (as only truly great novels can). Over years, I've met many who were struggling with it, many who had given up. Several of these were pursuing artistic careers (actors, painters, writers) who said they were "trying to read it" because they felt they "should", because they'd "heard it was an important book". I suggest this is a terrible reason to read it -- like "trying", it is setting yourself up for failure. If you're not enjoying it, then STOP...and come back in a year or so and start again. Ulysses is an incredibly funny novel once you are getting it -- if you're not laughing or wryly smiling as you read, you're probably not going to finish it. Btw, a 30-year-old Irish guy I met, ashamed at not having read it, started it at my behest. A third of the way in, he had an ecstatic glint in his eye, and told me, "I've spent my whole life thinking I'm crazy, but now I know I'm no more crazy than the next guy." Actually, I'm not sure about 18 days. I'm glad to have missed that challenge. Good luck to any takers.

I enjoy the fact that a lot of the characters in _Dubliners_ reappear in _U._ Were doing a group read of the novel in July, so Im happy to see your videos! (I also have the same, exact, ceramic "Happy Buddha" upon my shelf, as well 📿)