• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Ayn Rand isn’t really studied if you do a philiosophy degree. She’s more on the literature side of “philosophy” as opposed to belonging to the analytic tradition or whatever.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, I suppose it’s similar to Herman Hesse or maybe Borges… except those two are quite cool

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          2 months ago

          Borges

          borges sucks ass. his book of short stories was basically “yo dawg, this reminds of a story of when I was in a bar an the old guy told me of a story that when he was a boy in a cafe, an old guy told him the story of some ancient gaucho…”

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            People were easier to entertain back in the day. There is also a clear line between Borges and modern short story authors like Ted Chiang who take what he started and develop it further.