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Preparing for a 19th-century philosophy course.

I'll be taking this course on 19th-century philosophy next semester, focusing on Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche while emphasizing on their conceptions of history. I'm just a minor in philosophy and the only philosophy class I've taken thus far is an introductory philosophy class.   


What should I know beforehand to prepare for the class? I heard that Hegel is quite a tough read. As far as I know, the texts we'll be reading include portions of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Nietsche's Genealogy of Morality.
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Probably Kant. You should be familiar with his ideas anyways, but reading the SEP and IEP articles on him and perhaps some introductions to him will help.

Hegel had Kant in mind when doing most of his work. And Marx responded to Hegel.

Nietzsche wasn’t a big fan of Kant or Hegel but they were giants in the 19th century.

And overview of Hegels lectures on history might be valuable to understand him at a more concrete level.