/lit/ - Literature

What is a nonfiction book I can read that will make me seem intelligent but isn't difficult to read? Like Heidegger would make me look smart but it's too hard to read.

Who do I read if I want to read someone exactly like Heidegger but easier? I've tried my best. I've read through all the secondary sources but I can't even get through those. Who can I read as a substitute?

>>18450848
Heidegger and the ‘Event’ (Ereignis)
A brief description of Heidegger’s concept is as follows: at the dawn of philosophical thought, people (more specifically, Europeans,and even more specifically, the Greeks), raised the question of Being as the focal point of their thinking. But,by making it their primary subject,they risked getting confused by the nuances of the complicated relationship between Being and
thought, between pure Being (Seyn) and its expression in existence — a being (Seiende),between the human experience of being-in-the-world (Dasein — being-there) and being-in-itself (Sein).This failure had already occurred in the teachings of Heraclitus about the phusis and the logos.Next, it is obvious that in Parmenides’ work,and,finally,in Plato, who placed ideas between man and existence,and who defined truth as that which corresponded to them — the referential theory of knowledge — reached its culmination in failure. This gave birth to alienation,eventually leading to
‘calculating thinking’ (das rechnende Denken) and then to the development of technology.Little by little,man lost sight of pure Being and pursued the path of nihilism.The essence of technology (based on the relationship between technology and the world) expresses this ever-increasing nihilism.In the New Era,this tendency reaches its pinnacle — technical development (Ge-stell) ultimately displaces Being and crowns ‘nothingness’.Heidegger bitterly hated liberalism, considering it an expression of ‘the source of the calculative thinking’ which lies at the heart of ‘Western nihilism’.Postmodernity, which Heidegger did not live to see in its full manifestation,is,in every sense,the ultimate oblivion of Being;it is that 'midnight’, when nothingness (nihilism) begins to seep from all the cracks.Yet his philosophy was not hopelessly pessimistic.He believed that nothingness itself is the flip side of pure Being, which — in such a paradoxical way! — reminds mankind of its existence. If we correctly decipher the logic behind the unfurling of Being,then thinking mankind can save itself with lightning speed at the very moment of its greatest risk.‘But where the danger lies, there also grows that which saves’,Heidegger quotes from Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry.

>>17868595
*blocks your path*

Why did he hide the eggs? What was his endgame?

I Hate Niggers: THE MOVIE

Wtf dis nazi nigga sayin? He talkin bout dem time travel or sum shiet rite?