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Giovanni Arrighi

Oh Moon, Reha Erdem (1988)

“In a philosophical text all the propositions ought to be equally close to the centre. Without Hegel’s ever having said so explicitly, his whole procedure bears witness to such an intention. Because it acknowledges no first principle, it ought, strictly speaking, to know of nothing secondary or deduced; and it transfers the concept of mediation from formal connections to the substance of the object itself, thereby attempting to overcome the difference between the latter and an external thought that mediates it. The limits to the success of such an intention in Hegelian philosophy are also those of its truth, that is to say, the remnants of prima philosophia, the supposition of the subject as something which is, in spite of everything, ‘primary’. One of the tasks of dialectical logic is to eliminate the last traces of a deductive system, together with the last advocatory gestures of thought.”

— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 44

#theodor adorno #g.w.f. hegel

Night at the Crossroads, Jean Renoir (1932)

#jean renoir #georges asselin

tonreihe

“Immense difficulty in truly serving God. God wants everything, he demands everything, and one cannot escape him. ‘We are sold to God,’ my wife tells me, ‘we have been caught in his net, and we know that that net cannot be broken. Terrible joy which begins with a cry of distress!’”

—Léon Bloy, The Ungrateful Beggar (entry for November 21, 1894)

#leon bloy

"A fierce and dedicated love reaching for you from the pit." Love letter from (imprisoned and soon to be extrajudicially executed) George Jackson to Abbey Lincoln, 1971.

#george jackson #abbey lincoln