God Damn, is there anything harder to read than Marx?

[LostInAnomie]

I have to read ton of Marx's writings for an Econ class I am taking, and it is hard as hell. I have never read anything so dense in my life. Hell, even the Communist Manifesto is a pain in the ass.

No wonder Marxism never really took root.

[Kire]

1. yes there is

lots of stuff

[datasuspect]

2. casirer?

hegel?

[Fenris]

3. Yes. Henry James, for instance.

[khashka]

10. Blasphemer!

Henry James wrote beautifully.

Khash.

[CanuckAmok]

4. try reading Marx underwater...now that's hard!

n/t

[lastknowngood]

5. James Joyce it's a killer

n/t

[bloodyjack]

6. No way. Finnegan's Wake is a hoot.

What are ya, illiterate or something?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. Soren Kierkegaard

[LostInAnomie]

9. Yeah that is true.

I read "Fear and Trembling" this summer and don't think I understood 75% of it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. try reading his journals , oy vey....but, "Provocations" by Charles Moore

is a wonderful introduction to Kierkegaard for anyone interested.

Kierkegaard's style is dense, his thoughts complex.(and i had to continuely reread over and over again almost every paragraph, & pulling my hair out :7 ) yet embedded within his writings and journals are metaphors and truths so deep and vivid, they can overwhelm you with an almost blinding clarity.

Kierkegaard's bracing metaphors, aphorisms, and attacks on conventional Christianity in Provocations is more of a health farm than a holiday. At the very least it shows that we are not the first generation to find the Church disappointing, the mind and spirit in tension, and God wonderfully paradoxical.

[Canuckistanian]

8. You want density? Try Ayn Rand

Impenetrable language AND incomprehensible logic all rolled into one.

[khashka]

11. I always had a problem with Emile Durkheim

Reading "Suicide" seemed to me like having a root canal without anasthetic.

But stick with Marx. It's worth it.

Khash.

[libnnc]

12. Yes...

Judith Butler. Christ on a cracker!, that's the hardest reading I've ever done...for a Feminist Theory class. Almost made my head explode.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. Hitler makes that read like the children's section of a

newspaper.

Try that crap sometime.

[DrGonzoLives]

14. Not really

That was why Engel was around...if he hadn't been around, communism and socialism likely would not have existed.

[kalibex]

15. Yep:

Marshall McLuhan.

-B

[liontamer]

17. yes

foucault.
Try reading some of Engels stuff. Same message better written.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Yes, Leo Strauss....

:crazy: