>What of Heidegger, Hegel on death, Geist and the absolute, and the
>devolution of German Idealism? What of the absolute as temporalizing
>(ontological) difference?
>Any Hegelians around?
>
>malcolm
To address but two slivers of the massive whole that calls for...
Reading Heidegger, one would surely think that it would be difficult (to
say the least) to read the Hegelian absolute in terms of difference.
However, the new wave of American Hegelianism, led by Bob Pippin, reads
absolute knowing in a Heideggerian fashion, as (the historical moment of)
the recognition of the impossibility of knowing absolutely. Hence
'unending modernity' rather than 'post-modernity' (as with much of the
Kojeve-inspired French tradition).
As for death... In the PhG, the master becomes the master strictly in
virtue of his willingness to risk death. But, in the ensuing dialectic of
recognition, the master becomes slave to the slave (it is the slave--who
finds his reflection in the work undertaken at first in the name of the
master--from whom 'absolute knowing' 'evolves'). Thus: 'Wisdom begins in
the fear of the Lord.'
Iain
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"Und wer gut verfolgt, lernt leicht f o l g e n: --ist er doch
einmal--hinterher!"
"And whoever persecutes well, learns readily how _to follow_: for he is
used to going after somebody else!"
--Nietzsche, "The Ugliest [haesslichste] Man" [i.e., the
Socrates-in-Nietzsche], _Zarathustra_ IV.7.
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>devolution of German Idealism? What of the absolute as temporalizing
>(ontological) difference?
>Any Hegelians around?
>
>malcolm
To address but two slivers of the massive whole that calls for...
Reading Heidegger, one would surely think that it would be difficult (to
say the least) to read the Hegelian absolute in terms of difference.
However, the new wave of American Hegelianism, led by Bob Pippin, reads
absolute knowing in a Heideggerian fashion, as (the historical moment of)
the recognition of the impossibility of knowing absolutely. Hence
'unending modernity' rather than 'post-modernity' (as with much of the
Kojeve-inspired French tradition).
As for death... In the PhG, the master becomes the master strictly in
virtue of his willingness to risk death. But, in the ensuing dialectic of
recognition, the master becomes slave to the slave (it is the slave--who
finds his reflection in the work undertaken at first in the name of the
master--from whom 'absolute knowing' 'evolves'). Thus: 'Wisdom begins in
the fear of the Lord.'
Iain
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"Und wer gut verfolgt, lernt leicht f o l g e n: --ist er doch
einmal--hinterher!"
"And whoever persecutes well, learns readily how _to follow_: for he is
used to going after somebody else!"
--Nietzsche, "The Ugliest [haesslichste] Man" [i.e., the
Socrates-in-Nietzsche], _Zarathustra_ IV.7.
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