Difficult Books

[David Morris]

Thanks.

2012/8/10 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>
> Both books, Phänomenologie des Geistes and Sein und Zeit, are indeed not
> easy to read. But neither is Gravity's Rainbow! And I don't think that you
> need to read a whole overview of the history of philosophy to start with
> Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel's own introduction, which he added after he
> had finished the book, will provide you with the necessary tools to get by.
> So just go for it! Perhaps it will help you to think of Goethe's Faust to
> which Hegel's Phenomenology is closely related (as Ernst Bloch worked out in
> chapter eight and nine of the The Tübingen Introduction in Philosophy).
> Actually it's a trip!