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Oct 28, 2025 06:10AM
:'D Would you care to elaborate, please? (:
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He just goes on and on and on in a way that's both repetitive and self-indulgent and hammed in by qualification after qualification and I desperately want it to be over. Heidegger can write good and interesting essays - these are... not them.
Glancing at the TOC, the essay on Trakl stands out - maybe that'll be interesting.....
Alexander wrote: "He just goes on and on and on in a way that's both repetitive and self-indulgent and hammed in by qualification after qualification and I desperately want it to be over. Heidegger can write good an..."Hmm, interesting. Which essays of his do you consider worth reading and / or well-written? I haven't come across anything in the Heidegger'sche sphere which I even found remotely enjoyable, or comprehensible.
I got 'Was ist Metaphysik?' at my parents' place as well as 'Sein und Zeit' ...
Mesoscope wrote: "Glancing at the TOC, the essay on Trakl stands out - maybe that'll be interesting....."It was my least favourite of the essays here lol (he's like, totally unleashed, just goes full Heideggerese, at maybe his most poetic but also therefore his most obscure).
Isabell wrote: "Hmm, interesting. Which essays of his do you consider worth reading and / or well-written? I haven't come across anything in the Heidegger'sche sphere which I even found remotely enjoyable, or comprehensible."Honestly everything in the Poetry, Language, Thought collection is great. Even the essay on language there is better than the ones here! Part of what's motivating me is that I've been reading alot of post-Heideggarians (Agamben, Derrida) and this is like a bit of a trip back to the sources, as it were. Doing my current 'Heidegger run' after reading Agamben's First Philosophy Last Philosophy (book) has been real rewarding.
Just re-read "The Ends of Man" and found it really spectacular, myself. I think Derrida is underrated as a reader of Heidegger, and of Hegel.
