May 12, 2015
Absolute Knowing digests what it encounters and secretes what it has assimilated as its own excrescence (Hegel 1970: §808). The subject simultaneously reaps and lays waste to the harvest of its history in a kind of philosophical potlatch or Saturnalia – a moment of kenotic expenditure in which the speculative reversal from loss to gain is in turn reversed. “To know one’s limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself” (Ibid. §807).
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