/lit/ - Literature

>>24254537
>100
Ridiculous. These people must be the anon in pic.

My opinion from reading Heidegger so far is this:

>If you start with Heidegger's original texts, I assure you that there is no easy way to read him: he always 1. requires that you already know phenomenology, 2. refers to ancient Greek terminology, and 3. uses his Idiosyncratic terminology in a bundle.

>Reading Husserl to understand him is not very helpful. Husserl left an enormous amount of Nachlass, and Husserl's thinking has changed a lot since Heidegger's departure. Merleau-Ponty's criticism of Heidegger through Husserl is well founded. For this reason, it is sufficient to read Dan Zahavi's Husserl's phenomenology and get to Heidegger.

>On the other hand, it is very helpful to read ancient Greek philosophy to get to know Heidegger. Heidegger's connection to Aristotle is very underrated, and he seems to write from an Aristotle's perspective in order to return to pre-Socratic thought. If you know Aristotle well, you might find it helpful to start with "Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy".

>Heidegger's final lectures, "On Time and Being", is very good for understanding BT. He explains what "Being" and "Time" are in the plainest way possible in this lecture. It also shows his relationship with Husserl, which he tried to conceal.

>The most accessible text of Heidegger is "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude". Here he substitutes boredom for anxiety as the fundamental attunement and analyzes relationship between boredom and time. This is a great book to help you understand BT's division 2.

>"Off The Beaten Track" and Basic Writings are easy texts, but they don't help you understand BT. "What Is Called Thinking?" is a bit more difficult but contains some of Heidegger's most important thinking after BT.

>In order to understand Heidegger, you will eventually have to put a hermeneutic circle around Heidegger's texts. You might start with Dreyfus's Being-in-the-World, read "On Time and Being" and "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics", and then read Being and Time. You will not understand the book very well. After that, read other works of Heidegger, and then come back to BT, and you will understand more.

>In order to fully understand "The Question Concerning Technology", you must also understand Heidegger's Kehre. This is a very difficult procedure.

>He is a more political person than is known. His philosophy is very much connected to his life. His analysis of ancient Greece may be strongly influenced by Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric. Heidegger's analysis of Kant reflects his resentment towards Cassirer (which I will supplement with Michael Friedman's A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger). The very last section of Being and Time deals with the relation between time and spirit, with "spirit" being the most frequent word in the 1933 rectorial address. Even without the Schwarze Hefte, there is already a lot of political rhetoric.

>>24107509
this guy made me laugh last week