And boy howdy does my head hurt.
I’m almost through the preface, and i have NO clue what he’s talking about.
So far, the only thing I’ve gotten is something about how a result is determined by the path that lead to it, and that a negation is not a destruction of something but just a further step forward.
But I have no fucking clue about his other concepts like Notion, Subjective/Objective, what he means by Science or how to piece it all together.
It really feels like walking in, mid conversation, in a foreign language.
Is the rest of the book easier to read, or should I just call it quits here?
I just wanted to better understand dialectics lmao
Are you reading the Science of Logic? It’s not a good introduction to Hegel, let alone philosophy. Start here instead: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/encycind.htm Also (cliche I know) browse around https://plato.stanford.edu/ for broad overviews on certain topics.
Contrary to everyone here I would encourage you to go further. Understanding dialectics is a necessity for any Marxist–here you will perhaps be interested in Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks. To really understand dialectics, and be able to make the transformation to its material ground would put you in a position to understand Marxism better than 99% of today’s “Marxists”