/lit/ - Literature

In this debut novel, the multi-talented Georg Hegel gives an edge-of-your-seat, no-holds-barred, rip-roaring ride through the dark and mysterious caverns of the criminal mind. This romp-em-stop-em tale traces the journey of a strapping, curious, yet fickle young man named Spirit (Geist in the original German) as his godlike intelligence leads him from the rough-and-tumble, animalistic mean streets of an unknown Caribbean island, through the French Revolution, to the clean and well-ordered cities of present-day Japan. (For a fuller account of the book's enigmatic conclusion, plus some alternate endings and commentary, see Alexandre Kojève's stunning compendium.) Many readers may know Georg Hegel as a humble high-school teacher and occasional babysitter, but make no mistake: Hegel is a masterful storyteller. In the Phenomenology of Spirit (popularly called P.O.S.), he thrills us with the twists and turns of a deeply complex character's development, stopping on the way to wow us with fights-to-the-death, to illuminate the perils and attraction of religious fanaticism, and even to weigh the pros and cons of arcana such as phrenological metaphysics and systematic racism. Like so many of our best novels, Hegel's narrative is of course completely implausible, yet even when the story stretches the bounds of believability, its constant movement from one point of view to another—followed so often by a graceful synthesis of the two—makes Hegel's P.O.S. one of the best reads of 1807!

....how did he know all that stuff?

>>21433045
Picrel is a good starter for newbie readers

Pic related obviously

>>21341522
Pic related obviously.

Pretty disappointed by this. Was expecting something totally different. This felts like a mixture of schizo ramblings and shitposts.

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>>19954062

I'm being filtered by Hegel.

I read carefully through his long paragraphs but it seems impossible for me to really grasp all of it.

How do I get into Hegel? Every time I pick up this stupid fucking book I stop after a few pages and feel retarded.

I dreamed that I destroyed this book. I haven't even read it.

What would Hegel say about this?

>>18484042
What's the best translation for this?

This is an unironically fun read. Sure there's some pedantry with his terms but it's like reading a good piece of speculative fiction and opens up new ways of thinking that have utility regardless of their truth value. I'm only close to the end of the preface but it's admirably ambitious and provocative in its implications. And there are delightful treats for the Nietzschean. Thanks for meme-ing me into reading this /lit/.

This is making me schizophrenic

>>16625925
as far as you know

Caesar is pretty /lit/; he calls you a pseud and tells you to read Hegel
>No, I'll destroy it because it's inevitable that it be destroyed. It's Hegelian Dialectics, not personal animosity. How do I put this basically enough? It's a philosophical theory, the kind you might encounter if you took time to read some books. The fundamental premise is to envision history as a sequence of "dialectical" conflicts. Each dialectic begins with a proposition, a thesis which inherently contains, or creates, its opposite - an antithesis. Thesis and antithesis. The conflict is inevitable. But the resolution of the conflict yields something new - a synthesis - eliminating the flaws in each, leaving behind common elements and ideas.

You're pretty smart /lit/, right?
Give me a gestalt on this kraut's autistic ravings.
Cause I don't got a fucking clue what the fuck he's going on about.

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