My 10 Favorite Books I've Read in 2020

The list:

Thank you!

[admiralbrown]

Petition for you to copy Nietzsche and make "Why I make such great Youtube videos."

[midgint]

Wake up babe, new CCK Philosophy video!

[waterguyroks]

Fredric Jameson's book on Postmodernism is what instigated my interest in philosophy. It was so prescient and lucid, it amazed me that someone could see the world so clearly

[dawnl]

Bejamin's concept of art having an 'aura' is interesting given that NFT's are all over news media this week.

[默-cr]

i was just thinking about your channel today, then boom! new video! if my thoughts have some sort of causal influence, i have to think about your channel more often

[matthewkopp]

I studied art and art history, and am very interested in the first book. I personally find it very ironic that much of western consumer industrial products were influenced by the Bauhaus (many of whom were socialist and communists) and the Russian constructivists to the point of being the dominant industrial aesthetic in western countries from the 1920's to the present. And yet art academia often completely ignores this real Marxist influence.

[ordinarysnowflake]

So excited to see Dance of the Dialectic on here! I've been working my way through it very slowly. I had Ollman as a professor in college, and he'd assigned us to get a few of his books that I hadn't gotten around to reading until now. I'm liking it a lot more than I expected.

[titolenin]

You mispronounced it. It is Henri Lefebvre, not Henri Lefebvre.

[hrnekbezucha]

Some Ecce Homo chapters definitely on par with Duke Nukem's Why I'm So Great.

[idozinger]

"Marx's Lost Aesthetic" reminded me of Clement Greenberg
. He wrote some interesting essays on aesthetics, mainly synthesizing Kantian and Marxist views. His essay "Modernist Painting" is a good start for anyone interested.

[okra]

Thanks for sharing! Dance of the dialectic and Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche look interesting. I'll add them to my seemingly never ending list of books to read haha.

[dimitrisbk]

glad you've been tackling nietzsche, one of my favorites

[marchdarkenotp]

At even two in the morning, a new upload from one of the best philosophy channels gets me hyped asf!

[slimywater]

Wake up samurai, we have a CCK philosophy video to watch 😎

[HundreadD]

Benjamin's essays on writers of literature are still pretty hard to decipher even if you've read, reread, and read analyses of the authors he's talking about beforehand. Clearly he's on another level of literary criticism than basically anyone--but you don't know the half of how over the head some of his essays on literature can be until you've read his ones on Baudelaire and the Trauerspiel

[raresmircea]

Hope to see vids more often, you’re a fantastic source of thought 🤘

[bawbe]

I'm very excited about your book. Thanks for your vids.
I'm still crying about the Heidegger/Miyazaki one :(

[thadtuiol]

The sheer chutzpah of unironically titling chapters like "Why I am So Wise" and "Why I am So Clever" tickles my fancy.

[fmma]

Another interesting video by my favourite french youtuber. I'll check out Le Feu Vrai

[forestray]

Ha! I was on your channel last night and actually said to myself "Damn, he never did a book list for 2020!" Hell yeah thank you as aways for being my favorite channel on youtube