/lit/ - Literature

Where do you even start with Heidegger if you don't know german? I tried reading his essay about truth but a lot of the terms felt very awkward and unable to be translated well.I know the basics of him from YouTube lectures, but I can't really get into reading his actually primary source essays since the neologisms are so frusturating.

Also, I don't see why people care about a philosopher's personal life. If we are going to start doing that, we should take out Foucalt for his pedophilia, Plato for his collaboration with tyrants, etc.
Philosophy is about ideas and investigations, not petty moralizing.