#cf.hegel

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sometimes sublation is impossible and the acceptance of a crisis as some unsublatable situation is the condition of freedom.

ANDRE VANTINO on ZIZEK

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For a brief time Hegel ..had been captive to the illusion that the French Revolution was the restoration of classical Athens in his midst, but by the December 1800 ..he was convinced that the ideal of reconciliation with an apparently alien world could not be achieved by recapturing a lost past

 Holderlin ..through ..the concept of love, pointed out to Hegel the way beyond the Fichtean dilemma of having to choose between theoretical and practical reason, i.e., between domination of the self by the not-self or object and domination of the not-self by the self. Domination, whether theoretical or practical, is incapable of achieving the authentic reconciliation of subject and object possible only through love. Dieter Henrich has persuasively argued that this thought, planted in Hegel by Holderlin, is the germ of Hegel's own mature standpoint (Henrich, 9-40). Ineffable "love" will in Hegel's vocabulary shortly become "life," and will end up as the conceptually intelligible infinite "Spirit" 

- Introduction to Hegel’s Letters

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"Time is the experience of becoming,  a slowmotion succession of spirit." "Absolute knowledge is only possible by recollection." "By spirit Hegel means the entire developments of the world. Images have to be grasped internally by the self when substance becomes subject

 From Simon Critchley’s new story  MEMORY THEATRE

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Kieslowski’s virtualisation of reality: what he stages are the multiple potential scenarios which enable the subject to postpone the true - suicidal - act. 

- The-Fright-of-Real-Tears - SLAVOJ ZIZEK

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What Hegel calls “pure self-recognition in absolute otherness,” is called by Todd McGowan "a recognition that one’s identity exists outside oneself in the object that appears most other to oneself"

ANDRE VANTINO

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The world ..becomes, it passes away, but it has never begun to become and never ceased from passing away – it maintains itself in both – it lives on itself: its excrements are its food.

REBECCA COMAY

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Things only are what they are in relation to otherness.. ..The Real is ..the ..impossibility which makes ..representations ..inconsistent. ..Absolute Knowing is a name for the acceptance of the absolute limitation of ..subjectivity, of the impossibility of stepping outside of it.

Less Than Nothing - SLAVOJ ZIZEK