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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
by content, do you mean the text line by line? i've found that to be the greatest of pleasures with people like nietzsche above everyone else, and roland barthes, or some of marx, and aristotle's nicomachean ethics, and the schlegels and other german romantics, and camus, and marcus aurelius, and even some of plato, and other people i can't recall at the moment (i just woke up and haven't had breakfast).
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Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Barthes, Bataille, Camus, Lyotard, Sartre [etc] - all very writerly writers. Aristotle and Plato come from a very classic tradition where philosophy wasn't a distinct subject, hence you have dialogues, plays and so on rather than strict philosophy alone. Marx was a great polemicist. Writing style makes a huge difference. I'd recommend that everyone read Kierkegaard, regardless of whether they're interested in philosophy. I'd recommend very, very few people to read Hegel. It isn't a compelling writing style (although that style, like Spinoza's, is crucial to his project) and you will get as much, if not more, from reading a secondary text on him. Kant I sort of wobble on - I love him, but he's incredibly dense. Hegel is much more frustrating because he's sort of dense but somehow simple. One of my lecturers used to say, with the grandest air of malice, that no-one in the history of philosophy has ever truly read Hegel, including Hegel himself. I don't quite think that's true, but honestly, it's a complete waste of time unless you want to write a paper on Hegel.