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[Pim]

2 hours ago, Niko said:

It probably already helps to read a translation... I heard that with Kant (who is easier to read than Hegel I guess) some educational programs in Germany give their students English translations to read because those are smoother ... 

Kant could be tough but Hegel is definitely more complicated. I read in Dutch and I think reading it in another language than my first will make it even more complicated 😉 but I don’t mind. Just means I will get slower trough it and leave it aside on those evenings when I am tired or unfocused. Got his biography for those evenings which is very fun to read and gives his other book more context.

[rostasi]

Carol Kaye Declines Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction

[clifford_thornton]

10 minutes ago, rostasi said:

Carol Kaye Declines Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction

got hit with paywall on that, but here's the non-paywall version:

https://www.stereogum.com/2312231/carol-kaye-declines-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction/news/

and who am I to argue with Carol Kaye? Seems reasonable to me.

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[GA Russell]

Novellas.  I think Chandler's novellas are under-appreciated.

[Matthew]

On 6/19/2025 at 8:55 AM, clifford_thornton said:

got hit with paywall on that, but here's the non-paywall version:

https://www.stereogum.com/2312231/carol-kaye-declines-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction/news/

and who am I to argue with Carol Kaye? Seems reasonable to me.

Off topic but is anyone excited about the bands named to the HofF? And to think, XTC remains out. The RRHOF continues to celebrate mediocrity.

[jlhoots]

Craig Johnson: Return To Sender

[JSngry]

Joe Cocker, Thom Bell, Cyndi Lauper, and Soundgarden all made marks. And although I totally get Carol Kaye's point...she definitely made her mark.

[mikeweil]

A crime mistery novel  based on Chandler and McDonald with a similar personality as a private investigator. Since he is a jazz fan, and the author wrote the biography of one of my favourite musicians,  Cal Tjader records are played frequently in this book. 

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[GA Russell]

Am I the last man in America to have read this?

More novellas.

Memoirs of a drug smuggler.

Apparently, it's easy until they all start ratting on each other.

[jlhoots]

S.A. Cosby: King Of Ashes

[GA Russell]

Hourly History eBooks are like magazine articles.

When I was a toddler we lived in the area, and I remember routinely riding past the Bunker Hill Monument.

[GA Russell]

[ejp626]

Rereading Calvino's Invisible Cities (for probably the 3rd or even 4th time)

I am almost through Walden as well.  I've read long excerpts in the past, but this is the first time reading the entire thing.

And maybe a third of the way through di Lampedusa's The Leopard, for the first time.  (Planning on watching the movie soon as well, which I have never gotten around to seeing either...)

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[GA Russell]

Short stories.  Average quality.

[Holy Ghost]

On 6/14/2025 at 9:37 AM, Pim said:

 

The biography is an easy and enjoyable read. The Phenomology of the Spirit is also enjoyable but in parts almost unreadable. But I like a challenge and I’ve got ChatGPT on my side to get me trough it 😇🤣

...is a juggernaut. Like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I had to live with this book for years (under the direction of Tom Rockmore no less!) to truly understand what is being said. Like Kant, Peirce, Aristotle, Heidegger, Husserl, I had to live with Hegel, to understand Hegel.

[Holy Ghost]

On 6/14/2025 at 12:56 PM, Pim said:

Kant could be tough but Hegel is definitely more complicated. I read in Dutch and I think reading it in another language than my first will make it even more complicated 😉 but I don’t mind. Just means I will get slower trough it and leave it aside on those evenings when I am tired or unfocused. Got his biography for those evenings which is very fun to read and gives his other book more context.

Can't agree more when it comes to translations. Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is a pinnacle example. This translation, which Heidegger did not assist the translaters is notoriously misunderstood because Heidegger wrote in this extinct German dialaect, which comfounded a translation for nearly 30 years, when this translation was finished in 1960:

 

Finally in the 1970's shortly before his death in 1976, Heidegger assisted Joan Stambaugh to retranslate Being and Time in what I believe is the definitive edition.

 

[Niko]

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

[gvopedz]

19 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

...is a juggernaut. Like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I had to live with this book for years (under the direction of Tom Rockmore no less!) to truly understand what is being said. Like Kant, Peirce, Aristotle, Heidegger, Husserl, I had to live with Hegel, to understand Hegel.

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