/lit/ - Literature

>>8884061
I think there are certain prequisites to really appreciate the book. For example, I spend a lot of time reading about philosophy of the self. Kierkegaard and such. So it really opened my eyes.

I didn't think there was anything pseud about it, it makes a lot of sense desu.

So my answer is idk, maybe.

kropotkin

>>8880871
>Read it in Latin

>>8877111
Nice digits is right. Steppenwolf is 10/10. Even better than Siddartha.

Nothing. His "arguments" are all negative ones. It's like you haven't read Plato.

They're not "God"-related as such. God can mean Reason, The Absolute, The Infinite. And anxiety is more about the refusal to accept your freedom to interpret your own life (IE Sartre but before he ripped it off of Heidegger and Kierk). Don't make the only philosopher who hasn't been meme-ified a meme.

Just stop.

Yes, for whatever branch of economics you go into. He laid the groundwork for them all.

You fucked up. It's precisely the opposite. Every sentence is crammed with as much explicitness and groundwork as he could fit in.

I recognize the stranger and the metamorphosis. I'm guessing the other 2 are also from existentialist lit.

Adorno is an elitist. The worst of the Frankfurt school, a hack. Read Walter Benjamin or Erich Fromm, just don't bother with Adorno...

>>8873851
thanks senpai

>>8873687

>leftypol
>mocking anyone else

>tfw running out of book space in my house and now am going to have to sell a bunch of cool books

Kierkecool was wrong on absolutely nothing.

>>8870355
and btw I read it in a small mumble reading group with 4 other laymen. If we could do it by ourselves, you can do it with an "authority".

>>8870355
Being and Time is easy, I'll give you that. Logic isn't "difficult to understand". I disagree with you on that. As I said, if you have proper secondary lit you can understand it fine, otherwise maybe your teacher is not so great as you think.

As I say, try reading it along w/ Stace.

True facts.

Either/Or, The Ego and Its Own, A short history of decay.

Anyone who tells you that Hegel is "unreadable" or "obscurantist" is just salty or have pretended to read Hegel before and now are foisting that upon others. Science of Logic is not difficult to understand. You shouldn't start w/ Phenomenology.

GOOD SECONDARY LIT RECOMMENDATION:

W.T. Stace - The Philosophy of Hegel

I personally think Hegel's Logic is revolutionary, and is at the very least extremely interesting. However I think Philosophy of Right and certain parts of the Phenomenology are complete abortions. Though having said that Schopenhauer isn't in a good position to call anyone else a hack, hypocrite that he was.

There are things I disagree with him on, namely due to my studies of Kierkegaard... a lot of Hegelians are very dogmatic and pretend to understand a lot more than they do, and can't generally justify a lot of what they agree with when it comes to Hegel. Sometimes I think he was just too smart for us.

Tl;Dr no he wasn't a hack, he was very intelligent, but many Hegelians are hacks.

>>8868344
>Evola
>Sartre

Wow what shit taste in books. Only Camus slightly redeems you.

>Muh no Divinity
Such a meme... Try Kierkegaard on for size...

>>8867015
Self-proclaimed Kierk expert here. If you don't want to read philosophy in general, and not even the Socratic dialogues, I'd say start with the essay: "The Present Age". I think if you read Kierkegaard it's best to read philosophy in general as well, especially Plato and Hegel....

But there are books that you can understand without it, such as Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, concept of anxiety (short, so maybe you want to go for that one first) and Concept of Dread.

If you read just Plato, then you can go for Concept of Irony.

TL;DR start w "The present age" which you can find here http://www.historyguide.org/europe/present_age.html

and then read Concept of Anxiety.

>>8864882
>>8864879

t. derailed a conversation about Sartre to talk about tripfags

Have some self-awareness, you Cartesian fucks.

>>8864632
>>8864629

This is almost CERTAIN. Fuck my country.