Relative quality/importance of ideas aside, Heidegger is really annoying in exactly the way I suspect I am to many readers, except in pursuit of a grievance against Aristotle afaict, rather than a noble search for lulz
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I'm kinda trying to read around Being and Time rather than through it. It's a big fat domain squatting via a perversely unpleasantly articulated body of roughly right thoughts. Arendt's work, which appears to be 50% a gloss on Heidegger, 50% her own, is much more user friendly
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I think in order of decreasing ease of accessibility, the works to consume to understand the basic stance of Being and Time are:
Doctor Who (especially David Tennant)
Ursula Le Guin's books
Hannah Arendt's Human Condition
Heidegger
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Virginia Woolf is somewhere in there, but I think she's more a fork off Bergson than Heidegger
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I honestly don’t know why you would punish yourself with the primary text. Do yourself a favor and just read this:
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We have a generation of scholars and enthusiasts who have boiled his content down to something understandable. If you are not reading it German, what is the point anyway?
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I like heidegger probably because I know his work through a reading of Origin of the Work of Art, plus a number of secondary sources about him — worked for me as a backdoor into his big ideas



