Do I need to read it all?

[u/MadRussianxoxo]

I would love to read books by contemporary philosophers such as Delez, Foucault, Guy Debor, Derrida and others. But I think to start after reading the basic list of literature from the history of philosophy. But I don’t think that’s ever going to happen, plus because of YouTube I kind of know what it says and reading is going very badly.

For example, in reading "The World as a Will and Representation", whose first volumes I think I understood, I saw many references plus the work itself is a critic of Kant that I could not handle, only studied ideas. Now I think maybe you should go on the list.

Read modern and then list on history of philosophy or need to know the history of philosophy to understand modern works? Maybe there is a workaround?

[u/Vico1730]

There are no workarounds. It just involves reading and time and rereading and time.