/lit/ - Literature

Very nice topic, I'll chime in a bit but I also have a question. Is 'Was ist Metaphysik?' as good as I've heard, and would it be a good intro to Being and Time? While I haven't read Heidegger directly (except a few passages) I have a decent amount of secondhand knowledge (Sartre/Kaufmann/Žižek).

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It seems to me that the history of philosophy depends very much on the language which has been used to express it. Whether or not there is a definite track of concepts (whether a hierarchy of problems or whatever, or even a real progression of problems/solutions), concepts becoming "stuck" within language, being tied down to certain linguistic relations over others and further being complicated with relations to other areas. A very crude example would be the claim that Einstein, Heidegger, and Hitler all believe in God - by no means does this mean that the three share the same belief. Nonetheless if the statement is placed into a widely-read philosophical text, the actual corpus of texts, the canon, has been altered.