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Anarchist classics and other changes to philosophy_book snippets #33460

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@park66665 park66665 commented Aug 22, 2019

Summary

SUMMARY: NONE

Purpose of change

  1. I felt that there aren't enough anarchist classics; Stirner, Kaczynski, and Thoreau are cool, but I want to see old-school-ish anarchism.
  2. I ended up wanting to add some other philosophical books that fit well to the cataclysm IMHO.
  3. Lack of Schopenhauer was noted.
  4. There were some non-double spaces after periods.

Describe the solution

  1. Add four important anarchist books.
  2. Add some cataclysm-ish books.
    2-1. Add a book about nihilism or antinatalism et cetera.
    2-2. Add a book about transhumanism.
  3. Add Schopenhauer.
  4. Add double spaces.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  1. Just adding double spaces, or adding missing descriptions; some snippets have only one sentence!
  2. Add more contemporary schools of thought instead of old, old anarchism, exempli gratia, Digimodernism by Alan Kirby (post-postmodernism), Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools by Stefano Gualeni (game philosophy), Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (queer theory...?) et cetera; but they are a little bit too contemporary... I guess?
    1-1. Mutual Aid instead of Conquest of Bread?
    1-2. Bob Black? How about Saul Newman, John Zerzan, or digging up some obscure contemporary anarchist philosophers?
  3. Not doing it? Should I conjure up some fictional books?
    2-1. Antinatalism is.. too depressing. How about Voluntary Human Extinction?
    2-1-1. A Critique of Affirmative Morality by Julio Cabrera since I read parts of that and know that it fits very well with philosophy_book, but that book is from... well... 1996 (too contemporary).
    2-1-2. How about a book from Zapffe?
    2-1-3. Benatar?
    2-2. Why there aren't enough books about Anarcho-Transhumanism(and its synonyms)? It fits really well to this game!
    2-2-1. More contemporary Transhumanism books like The Posthuman Condition by Robert Pepperell, Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, et cetera.
    2-2-2. A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna J. Haraway?
    2-2-3. The Artilect War by Hugo de Garis?
  4. Not adding Schopenhauer. We already have a few books by Nietzsche! (There isn't Thus Spoke Zarathustra btw)
  5. No alternatives here.

Note: Cioran was chosen because Cioran is more "established" in the literary world.

Additional context

My first language is not English, so texts need some additional perusal by native English speakers.

I am really open to suggestions since I am not very knowledgeable about philosophy; I didn't even read enough Kant or Hegel! All feedbacks are welcome.

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ghost commented Aug 22, 2019

Where's my No Treason by Lysander Spooner? 😠

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faefux commented Aug 27, 2019

@park66665 Thanks for doing this, it was nothing intentional, I literally just added what was on my bookshelf or what was referenced in other books I owned and i'm just not that into commie anarchy (and as an extension of this things like >There isn't Thus Spoke Zarathustra are only because of reasons like my personal preference of Freddie is that he's at his best when he is writing critique.). I highly encourage people to add more books but be considerate that all this has to be translated by people into all different languages, the original list of snippets for example on my install is much longer.

My actual biggest concern with the list is that it is largely post-modern or what the Americans would call 'continental' philosophy that they seem to largely reject as a culture. Meaning that some of these books might in actual fact be pretty uncommon in the US, like i'm not sure how common what we would consider in Europe staples of modern thought like Baudrillard or Foucault for example would be on your average american philosophy nerd or library's bookshelf. Definitely needs re-doing at some point but for now I personally think it's good to just have the variation there. :)

Where's my No Treason by Lysander Spooner?

Def add some Spooner. it's likely more relevant to the american experience than most of what we've added!

misterprimus pushed a commit to misterprimus/Cataclysm-DDA that referenced this pull request Sep 21, 2019
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* More Philosophy is needed

So I added it.

* Fixed Periods

* Update data/json/items/book/misc.json

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