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
Yep, I’ve only read Hegel through small Red Sails articles, so reading the Phenomenology of Spirit is way above my philosophical weight class. Marx is far more accessible, and that’s because, as he says, the point is to understand the world so as to change it.