The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand

Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by whatnotests2 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:29PM (#40870604)

Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit, Marx's Capital, Foucault's work, von Neumann and Morgenstern' Game Theory, and the Perl 6 Apocalypses and Exegeses from the early 2000's.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by insane_dreamer on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:58PM (#40870841)

Feynman's lectures

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by hsavit1 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:30PM (#40870609)

kant's critique of pure reason

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by DrStormyDaniels on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:46PM (#40870759)

Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by g8oz on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @10:36PM (#40871887)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (GEB) - too much for me.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by diffxx on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:44AM (#40872369)

I found GEB understandable but ridiculously long winded and the passages with achilles were insufferably annoying.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by bowsamic on Thursday July 04, 2024 @04:58AM (#40873440)

I honestly found even the preface insufferable

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by __rito__ on Thursday July 04, 2024 @06:06AM (#40873710)

It was very readable to me. I really enjoyed reading the book.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by nextstepguy on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:54AM (#40872402)

The bible king james version translation.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by sigriv on Thursday July 04, 2024 @11:44AM (#40875785)

Deleuze, Bourdieu, Malebranche, ...

I find it incredibly satisfying to stretch my brain with books that are inaccessible on the first read.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by mamonster on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:57PM (#40877594)

Deleuze is so overrated(although I am personally biased against everything that came out and was concurrent with Mai 68 in general). I don't know if you read it in French, but in French the only "French Theorist" worse than Deleuze/Guattari is Baudrillar(for how bad the concepts are).

IMO the most interesting one from that era is Clouscard.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by sigriv on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:41PM (#40878286)

Did you read Deleuze's Logique de la sensation?

Yes I read him in french. Unfamiliar with Clouscard. Not a fan of Baudrillar either.

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Re:The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand by mamonster on Friday July 05, 2024 @06:10AM (#40881465)

From Deleuze, I read: - L'Anti-Oedipe + Mille Plateaux - Logique du sens - Le Bergsonisme - The 2 books on Nietzsche(these IMO are his best work)

Didn't get around to Logique de la Sensation, couldn't stomach him after the "Capitalisme/schizophrénie" duo.

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