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by 50 1344 days ago
I recently watched an interesting conversation between Todd McGowan and Walter Davis on Kafka[1] which you might enjoy.

There's a bit in the aforementioned interview where they mention if one is learning German, a good introductory route is reading Kafka and Heidegger's Being and Time. I've been contemplating whether I should learn German to read my favorite thinkers in their primary written language (and even potentially make a move to Germany, away from the weariness of California), or, rather, become more grounded in the English language.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjx7ZanqAg

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Thank you for the link, I got 17 minutes into this lazy slop and got to the something about law (judicial law that is) being "alive and sexual" and couldn't take any more.

Little useful is extracted, it's mainly academics grooming each other over their cleverness. I just couldn't bear it any more.