Philosophy

Hegel has often been described as a brilliant philosopher and mind yet terrible communicator/writer so you're not alone. There's some great videos out there that helped to clarify Hegel's points that I would recommend seeking out. Heidegger is very similar in his writing style as far as density and obscurity. It took me a long time reading and re-reading Being and Time to make sense of it.

Reading phenomenologists without a guide or instructor is a recipe for frustration. They are very dense and the German language's ability to create new words by mashing existing words together does not help.

Back when I was a philosophy major I found the Stanford website to be really helpful for getting orientated prior to reading the actual text. Phenomenology, like many schools of philosophy, is a response to the philosophy that came before it, so it's important to understand the context that Hegel is writing in.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

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