/lit/ - Literature

>>23442326
6/?

>>23376248
You read the prerequisites, right?
You don't necessarily have to read all of this chart but you'll get so much more out of Hegel if you have.
If that's not a time commitment you're willing to make, read whatever you need to in order to gain a working understanding of the rationalists and empiricists, Kant's critiques, and the work of Fichte and Schelling.

>>23131838
Picrel is maximalist.

>truncated
>general intellectual history interest
>focus on German Idealists et. al.

1. Copelston's History of Philosophy
2. Beiser's books on German Idealism
3. Hegel's Philosophy of History lectures

These will furnish the proper intellectual history context you desire.

4. Pinkard's Hegel Biography, Taylor's Philosophy of Hegel
5. Safranksi's Schopenhauer & Nietzsche biographies [Don't fuck with secondary Nietzsche literature, which is invariably partisan/'perspectivally' partial]
6. Magee's Philosophy of Schopenhauer book (and Hermetic Hegel)

These will take less time than 1 & 2 if you want to go straight into one of the aforementioned authors, but having them as one and done bios and/or secondary literature worth revisiting & referencing in your reading will be advantageous.

Primary

An Empiricist omnibus with Locke, Berkley, & Hume, and Leibniz' Monadology.

Fichte's Introduction to the Wissenschaftslehre, Feuerbach's Principles of the Philosophy of the Futre, Feurbach's Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics are all short and sweet.

Schopenhauer's essays require no introduction. A compendium of Wagner's would hurt either.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a skeleton key for both the old and late Nietzsche which you will find yourself revisiting to cast new light on one or other other.

Get the Hacket Introductory lectures of Hegel. If going further: Do the Encyclopedia, full lectures & Philosophy of Right, THEN the Greater Logic, then the Phenomenology.

SUMMA

1-3 WILL establish the foundation you require and desire. The rest is topical and you could go out of sequence at your discretion. Just be thorough with 1-3, and it may satisfy your curiosity without delving into the primary sources (or at least give you an idea of how extensively you're interested in doing so).

>>23093260
Do the Lectures, then the Encylopedia, then whatever. picrel for context.

>>23093385
They're all serviceable, even the old ones.

Are these books any good?