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I saw this band on Saturday in a concert hall, they played for 2.5 hours, no interval. Music surprised me in that it was pretty uncompromising and highly amplified, the loudest Jazz gig in a long time. The set featured tunes from across his career but focussed on Warners and after. An all electric band sounding at times like electric Miles, Blanchard was fierce and at other times a bit like Mwandishi or Headhunters. There was a fair bit of grandstanding and showing off of the considerable chops in the band. Hancock is a phenomenon, physically has so much energy for 85 and his playing throughout was outstanding with no apparent diminution of his powers. He played scintillating solos on both grand and synth. The band really locked in tight and although to my ears Petinaud erred on the rock side a little too often he was at others the star. A fabulous duet with HH during 'Actual Proof'. Herbie treated us to a rather bizarre vocoder speech/sermon about AI and robots which I initially thought was going to be an intro to 'Rockit', it wasn't it was just his thoughts, went on too long and burst the momentum a bit. I left feeling very pleased to have seen him again after at least 35 years but thinking the show could've easily been half an hour shorter and a lot more impactful if some of the solo features had been curtailed. It certainly had hints of what might be called Stadium Jazz. But Herbie is Herbie and he has absolutely earned the right to present his music in whichever way he chooses. The love for him in the auditorium was apparent from the off  

If you want to read Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit, I suggest that you also read (or first read) Robert C. Solomon's In the Spirit of Hegel.  https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Hegel-Robert-C-Solomon/dp/0195036506

Looks like the review didn't post. I will have to try and remember what I wrote now. I'll post again in the Severance thread

a colleague of mine can claim that three of his four grandparents took at least one course from Heidegger himself in Freiburg around 1930... I sympathize very much with his grandma who replaced the course with a course about (iirc) French cathedrals after a few weeks because the latter course was more fun... my late dad had a lifelong struggle with the obscure language that's still commonly used in the humanities in Germany... I have many childhood memories of him complaining about the way people said things in faculty meetings etc...  and, somehow, that preference for a simple and clear style in scientific writing has stayed with me... to the point where my tolerance for convoluted sentences and fancy words is pretty low... certainly far too low to appreciate Heidegger...  In the 1830s, Heinrich Heine wrote a nice history of German philosophy up to Kant and Hegel... iirc, his diagnosis is something along the lines of: Kant would have wanted to express himself clearly but lacked the ability... and then generations of followers copied his obscure writing style as if it was part of the message...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zur_Geschichte_der_Religion_und_Philosophie_in_Deutschland