The best internet primer I know of is Wes Cecil's youtube channel, he's a Literature professor in the PNW, and does hour long public lectures a couple of times

The best internet primer I know of is Wes Cecil's youtube channel, he's a Literature professor in the PNW, and does hour long public lectures a couple of times a month and uploads them there in categorized playlists. These are good to start with because they're for a general-public audience, rather than for students who have already read the material once and are just in class to get the finer points and debate the concepts (that's why these things don't typically translate well to video lessons, his channel is an exception). From there, you can go on and read yourself what interests you, and while I typically have little use for the prospect of learning by video rather than reading, humanities / philosophy / literary study is one example in which you will get a lot more from the material if you find a lecture that accompanies it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA Even as a humanities grad who has been through a lot of this stuff once, I find myself listening to his lectures for nostalgia's sake. Humanities classes are fun, that's why people still go to them.