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Read an interview with this philosopher on Hegel. Touched on Kant, Spinoza, various philosophers and systems.
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/hegel-stephen-houlgate/
At the end there is this:
"Not everyone is going to have the time to read Hegel and that’s a shame. It’s a shame, too, that most people won’t have the time or perhaps the energy to study Aristotle, Kant or Heidegger. Philosophers such as Kant and Hegel are hugely rewarding, but not everyone is going to be able to read them. You can’t just pick up Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason or Hegel’s Logic in an evening after having spent all day at the office and think you’re going to make much headway with it. It’s hard. But if you have the time and are willing to make the effort, studying these works can be hugely rewarding."
I think certain works of philosophy suffer from the lack of time an office worker has to be able to give it.
But then again I have read very little philosophy and don't really know.
xp - yes that is an issue too. So I don't perhaps pick up philosophy because I can't quite see how that could be more rewarding than a novel. That's me making stuff up to parcel as the lack of time is an issue, but not in the way that essay talks about it
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 January 2024 13:36 (four months ago) link
That essay also values finishing far too much. It's ok not to finish things even if you are enjoying it. I've seen three series of The Sopranos years ago abd stopped it. I read about the last scene last year and went on YT. Watched and enjoyed it. That's fine.
We should normalise picking things up and putting them down.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 January 2024 13:42 (four months ago) link
guardedly prepared to tone down my lifelong animus against jameson* if that's what he was getting at here: "the ‘mid-cult pride’, in the words of fredric jameson, felt by those who finish it"
*another author who invariably delivers at greater length than necessary
― mark s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 13:50 (four months ago) link
how you parcel up reading time when available reading content is so colossally super-abundant
I'm really grateful when I find a long work which seems so worth tackling that it kinda resolves this issue for me.
Proust has always done this for me. I think I'm getting a similar feeling from The Tale of Genji. Works that force me to read slowly, where I know I'm not going to be finishing any time soon, and where I just stop thinking about what else I might be reading.
― jmm, Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:24 (four months ago) link