i think u can read rosseau and like someones already said voltaire without much background needed, maybe some plato? i think it wasnt until like the 20th century that there was real divide between philosophers from different countries, so maybe thinking in movements would be better, like rationalists, idealists, and that means reading german french etc philosophers
if u are interested in existentialism, the u should check our Nausea by Jaun Paul Sartre, it's a great book to start French philosophy, or The Stranger by Albert Camus
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I'm French and I honestly don't know
papillons
by french philosophy do u mean the postmodernists or the existentialists or the enlightenment thinkers?
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by BanyaXD^*^; ; Report
i think u can read rosseau and like someones already said voltaire without much background needed, maybe some plato? i think it wasnt until like the 20th century that there was real divide between philosophers from different countries, so maybe thinking in movements would be better, like rationalists, idealists, and that means reading german french etc philosophers
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sartre seemed a little boring to me
if u start w him, do not go with existentialism is a humanism
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if u are interested in existentialism, the u should check our Nausea by Jaun Paul Sartre, it's a great book to start French philosophy, or The Stranger by Albert Camus
Thank you very much for your suggestions! :)
by BanyaXD^*^; ; Report
Always brothaaa
by Raskolnikov_<3; ; Report
I was gonna suggest this! It's my all-time favorite book.
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