/lit/ - Literature

>>20580815
A big filter for Hegel is that people:

A. Want to jump in with no context or secondary guidance and so mistake passages aimed at his contemporaries as being something entirely different.

B. PhS is the most famous book so people start there. Of course this opens up on the incredibly rushed, brilliant, but also at times incoherent Preface, and they assume everything Hegel ever wrote must be like the Preface. Whereas Philosophy of History is fairly straight forward despite being composed of notes Hegel made for teaching. History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Right might also makes better starting points. But people like to plow into the Phenomenology or the Greater/Lesser Logic and get owned.