Difficult Books

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Well put, Kai!

As Kant was brought up later in this thread: similarly, Prolegomena to  
Any Future Metaphysics is a good place to start, as it provides a  
*relatively* lucid summary and commentary on The Critique of Pure  
Reason. Cf. the more epistemological TCoL49...


Heikki

Lainaus David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> 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!
>