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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
For non fiction, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is really heavy reading. It is one of these books that is more read about than actually read. Here's a link to the Random Kant Generator, http://interconnected.org/home/more/2000/08/kant/ which generates text that has a resemblance to how work. At first glance, it looks like it might not be gibberish. |
The Kant was what I immediately thought of when I saw there was other philosophy on the list. I have a degree in philosophy, and I'm supposed to have read it, but, er, I've only read bits of it.
The thing is that it does explain some complex ideas with precision. It's the idea themselves that make it complicated, and the fact that they all need new technical names like "schema" and "manifold" so you end up with sentences where none of the nouns mean anything you understand.
It could have done with a few jokes, that's all.
Incidentally, I was told at the time that German students of Kant would often read the English translation because it was easier. I have no idea if that's true.