So I am a total pleb who has read a handful of philosophy books that include reported hacks such as Sartre, Camus, and Nietzsche. I've decided to read Heidegger's being and time because I think the question he is asking is very interesting, and because why the fuck not.
General advice? I've gotten past the introduction, and I think I understand if tolerably well so far.
Ps: I'm not going to read any philosophy before I finish this.
he's the worst writer out of any philosopher i've ever read. his sentences are short, his terminology is incredible easy. it's basic af. i have no fucking clue how anyone could fail to understand it, it's the level of a 14 year old
Take your time, concentrate, reread passages you find particularly confusing, and don't hesitate to consult supplementary material. It won't be easy, it will test your patience, but if you stick with it it will change you.
Why are you wasting time on Veeky Forums, genius? Go invent the greatest philosophy, leave us brainlets alone.
Yes, I'm going incredibly slowly. Reread the introduction twice or thrice too. I'm not consulting any supplementary material though. Any recommendations? Or should I just plough through on my own?
> Nietzsche
> Hack
How about you read Heidegger's courses and book(s) on Nietzsche before waving your pleb badge around?
I love Nietzsche. Just saying that he's hardly the most esteemed, or the most difficult philosopher to read. Reading Heidegger definitely feels like a step up.
>I have read fuck all philosophy
>I have only read a single philosopher that is related to Heidegger
>That philosopher requires fairly broad knowledge of philosophy before he can be understood very well
>Not reading any supplementary material to a text that is well know for being difficult, having lots of conceptual hurdles to jump through, hurdles which will be harder to break through due to lack of philosophical knowledge, and that requires a working knowledge of the history of philosophy as well as reasonably accurate ideas about the thoughts of several important philosophers
I'm not trying to bash you here but you really are going to need help on this one. If you really do want to jump into this text now you are going to need secondary texts up the ass. Dreyfus has 30/40ish hours of online lectures going through the book in reasonable detail. His take on Heideggar is sometimes maligned by others but it will be far better to do that than to go it alone. In the first lecture he also talks about what secondary texts the students are expected to be reading during the course, so that is also a must.
Sounds like you're on the right track. You could plough through on your own. That's what I did. But immediately after finishing I read The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time by Mark Wrathall, which, while maybe not indispensable, helped me put some of Heidegger's ideas into more accessible language.
Try to associate the german words - he has a fanastic use of charateristic words for his philosophy - to your own language. Dasein, gelassenheit, geworfenheit, anwesenheit etc.