But in my experience, an introduction rarely stops at that point. More often you get someone desperate to make sure you read the book in the proper way. Which is to say, the way they read it. And before you know it, you’re knee-deep in their hot take about how obviously the whole thing is an attempt to recontextualize Heidegger’s phenomenology through a Marxist lens or something like that. Personally, I find this as appealing as the thought of someone chewing up my lunch for me before I eat it.
