Anyone ever read Heidegger?

CPT. SURF

I got a copy of Being and Time and have been reading it this last week. I was apprehensive about giving it a go because I heard so much about how its impossible to read and I could never understand it, et cetera, et cetera.

But so far it has been really enjoyable. I've been taking it slowly and making notes for myself here and there. Now I'm sure that I am not gleaning everything out of the text that Heidegger was saying but I am happy enough that I am getting something out of it and thats good enough for now.

I also got another Heidegger book called Poetry, Language, and Thought and that one is really cool. His poems are very interesting. I love his particularity about language and how thinking must think against itself.

Any Heidegger experts or fans out there? I have only really started Being and Time and have been told an accompanying reader is a good idea

O'Morris

I read the first few pages of Being and Time when I was saw it in a bookshop a few weeks ago. Apart from a few Greek quotations I thought it was surprisingly easy going. I have a feeling it probably gets a lot tougher further in though.

At least I can always say I read and understood the start of one of the most complicated books ever written.

fcussen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0 <--- really good introductory talk on Heidegger by Hubert Dreyfus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKnb6WtYqU (Section 2/5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUDaml7ZJY (Section 3/5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzAqfzWJTq4 (Section 4/5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfsKTSM5Sns (Section 5/5)