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
I spent the first year or two of the pandemic walking around outside while listening to podcasts about hegel and other marx-related philosophers (like Why Theory and the sadly defunct Red Library). The issue here is that a lot of podcasts that discuss Hegel are lib, but I still feel like I got a lot out of it, although I kind of shuddered when you were like “what the fuck does he mean by ‘notion’?” Because yeah, what does he actually mean by that?
Sometimes I would get up in the morning and drink some coffee and read a page or two of the Phenomenology and google everything that confused me. I didn’t get too far but it was still pretty rewarding.