/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8372958]

What should I read before going into this bad boy?

[Anonymous No.8372985]

most things

[Anonymous No.8373003]

>>8372958
Some shorter stuff by him, so you get a feel for how he thinks before you dive into it. S&Z isn't as difficult as Critique of Pure Reason or the Phenomenology of Spirit, but it's still hard. It's saved, though, because the things Heidegger talks about can actually be related back to your lived experience. When he talks about inauthenticity and the they-self, or what moods reveal, it's easy to understand what he's talking about.

I would read: https://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Thinking-Torchbooks-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061314595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470627642&sr=8-1&keywords=Discourse+on+Thinking

And a couple essays from: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Language-Thought-Harper-Perennial/dp/0060937289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470627663&sr=8-1&keywords=Poetry+Language+Thought

The point is not to understand and lock down everything he says, but just to get a feel for it.

About Being and Time in general, though: the book begins with two introductions. These are daunting and unpleasant, at least for your first time through. My advice is to keep on going.

Also, don't worry about getting it all the first time. Heidegger actually works better if you read him as you would a novel.

Anyway, good luck, it's a great book and will change the way you think.

[Anonymous No.8373005]

>>8373003
fucking stupid post.

[Anonymous No.8373006]

>>8373005
Oh, sorry, let me put this in terms you'd understand:

kys

[Anonymous No.8373011]

>>8372958
>>8373003

Also, this is a useful, and readable, secondary source: https://www.amazon.com/Being---World-Commentary-Heideggers-Division/dp/0262540568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470628026&sr=8-1&keywords=Dreyfus+Heidegger

The author seems to be a little bit of a dirty hippie, though.

[Anonymous No.8373016]

>>8373003
>Phenomenology of Spirit
srsly, fuck that book

[Anonymous No.8373061]

>>8373003
>The point is not to understand and lock down everything he says, but just to get a feel for it.

About Being and Time in general, though: the book begins with two introductions. These are daunting and unpleasant, at least for your first time through. My advice is to keep on going.

Also, don't worry about getting it all the first time. Heidegger actually works better if you read him as you would a novel.

Anyway, good luck, it's a great book and will change the way you think.

so basically read the book, then?

[Anonymous No.8373189]

>>8373061
Heidegger is better understood with a goblett of wine by your side, and a red plate with delicious crackers to munch as your energies wither but mind stays heated in it's focus.

I would recommend, as prereq reading to go through through most of Hegel's work, the encyclopedia of logic and the phenomenology de'sprit are a yes yes.

As anon said above read as you would a novel, from start to finish. Best red in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.8373195]

>>8372958
Plato, Aristotle, Meister Eckhart, Husserl

[Anonymous No.8373234]

Understand the Ancient Greeks, German Idealism, Nietzsche, and Phenomenology (Husserl)

[Anonymous No.8373620]

You should be aware that B&T is an unfinished work.

[Anonymous No.8373932]

>>8373189
>suggests hegel before heidegger

what

[Anonymous No.8374028]

>>8373620
You should be aware B&T is gibberish.

[Anonymous No.8374070]

What is Metaphysics - Heidegger

if you haven't already, read a history of philosophy just so you get the jist of his precursors; maybe read an article (SEP) on husserl