Reddit reviews Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

It's good talking with you, and I'll reply to this with meatier content a little later since I'm busy, but in the meantime I'd like to add that the #1 very short, sharp, starter-book that I'd recommend to you to understand where I'm coming from is actually written by an apolitical (as far as I know) Christian philosophy professor and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society member named Jens Zimmermann who wrote Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction. This goes a long way towards explaining why I can't just dismiss Christianity or the Jesus message, and also the methodology of how to approach texts and ideas historically situated in a tradition.

This will be controversial, but I also recommend Peter Singer's Very Short Introductions to Marx and Hegel for a critical reading (and in the case of the famously obsucrantist Hegel, comprehensible). Charles Taylor's as supernaturalist introduction to Hegel is also extremely worthwhile. Don't simply dive into Hegel's primary material -start with secondary sources.

. Since you are an anarchist, I suppose you might not have much trouble finding the free PDF of the Marx: A Very Short Introduction floating on Google.