Insubstantial Aside (Kierkegaard)
During my research I recently stumbled across this rather perverse little fragment and thought I might introduce it here:
"Socrates, who, according to his statement wanted to ask the wise in the underworld whether they knew something or not, may get hold of Hegel in order to question him about the absolute method. Perhaps it would become evident that Hegel, who became so extra-ordinarily absolute in his earthly life, which ordinarily is the life of relativity, would become rather relative in the absoluteness of eternal life." [K., JP II 1606]
- the gadfly of Copenhagen registers an impolite sting on the nose of the great systematist...
"Socrates, who, according to his statement wanted to ask the wise in the underworld whether they knew something or not, may get hold of Hegel in order to question him about the absolute method. Perhaps it would become evident that Hegel, who became so extra-ordinarily absolute in his earthly life, which ordinarily is the life of relativity, would become rather relative in the absoluteness of eternal life." [K., JP II 1606]
- the gadfly of Copenhagen registers an impolite sting on the nose of the great systematist...
posted by Scott at 2:20 pm
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It is very interesting to hear a marginal figure fly between the pillars of a great system with perversity worthy of Deleuze. Indeed, the latter admires the theatre of movements developed by Kierkegaard in opposition to the false, heavy and plodding movements of the Hegelian dialectic. I thought this might be of interest in drawing further on this ability to think movement in order to gain an ability to think at the margins, edge or in-between:
‘When Kierkegaard explains that the knight of faith so resembles a bourgeois in his Sunday best as to be capable of being mistaken for one, this philosophical instruction must be taken as the remark of a director showing how the knight of faith should be played…. ‘I look only at movements’ is the language of a director who poses the highest theatrical problem, the problem of a movement which would directly touch the soul, which would be that of the soul.’ [‘Difference and Repetition’, p.9]
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