Status Updates From The Science of Logic (Hegel...

Onto volume 2. This is making more sense, but it's still like trying to nail jelly attempting to fully grasp what Georg is on about. Apparently Lenin spent 4 months in exile reading this and nothing else in a Swiss library. His discipline to reading meant that he went through it line by line - all for the purpose of attacking Kautsky! The result was 2 volumes worth of notes. My tiktok addled brain could never ...

Understanding Hegel's Logic is a bit like trying to understand theoretical physics. By which I mean you don't read it and absorb a set of arguments as such, but you follow a mental construction that is abstractly described, a bit like Einstein's theory of special relativity (which I admit to not understanding too). I can grasp the basic ideas and movements, but gripping a solid understanding is a moving target...

my head hurts

back on the grind.

this shit is magnificent but my. head rly hurts

Head hurty

I've reached the point on Absolute relation. I feel extremely smart and extremely stupid at the same time. Very much a hegelian problem.

holy fucking shit that introduction was long as fuuuuck

Reading this at a snail's pace whilst taking notes. It's incredibly difficult to follow. Wish I'd have read Phenomenology this way. I'll probably have to reread that in a few years. Whilst Hegel is terse, I think if you start to "get" what he's doing it does make sense. It's more that he's hyper specific and simultaneously vague in how he's establishing categories and the shifts between them (dialectical movement)...

Dunno why my Goodreads keeps telling me I've read SoL when I haven't. I've read Encyclopedia but that's a different book. Why is Goodreads so shit when it's literally owned by Amazon? Come on Bezos get your stuff together! Anyway, I'm doing a commentary on Science of Logic, so if anyone's interested or has any good book recommendations do respond or DM me please ...