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Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
I could not make heads or tails of it. Its way of thinking was unpenetrable to me. At first I thought it was because of my limited understanding of the German language. So I tried a translation. Didn't help.
And what is yours?
@MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon Thank you for asking. I have found Heidegger and Kant's works challenging.
@bibliolater @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon when I was doing my PhD another grad was German and she said she preferred to read Kant in English because it was even harder in German - at least with the translation someone had already tried to work out the meaning of the words.
But for me, Kant was nothing to Hegel. My lowest marks of my undergrad were for the Hegel course. I needed Peter Singer's Very Short Introduction to Hegel to explain it to me 🤣
@Rhube @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon I was going to mention Hegel as well but thought the list would be too long.
@bibliolater @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon it's kind of fascinating, because he was writing under heavy censorship and trying to obscure some of his rlmeaning from the authorities. But even so...