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What [[Hegel]] called the "Night of the [[World]]," the abyss of radical negativity.
  
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Does this not bring us back to the famous passage from the beginning of Hegel's ''Jenaer Realphilosophie'' [[about]] the "[[night of the world]]"?
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The [[human]] [[being]] is this night, this empty [[nothing]], that contains everything in its simplicity - an unending wealth of many representations, [[images]], of which none belongs to him - or which are not [[present]]. This night, the interior of [[nature]], that [[exists]] here - pure [[self]] - in phantasmagorical representations, is night all around it, in which here shoots a bloody head - there [[another]] white ghastly apparition, suddenly here before it, and just so [[disappears]]. One catches [[sight]] of this night when one looks human beings in the eye - into a night that becomes awful.<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], "Jenaer Realphilosophie," in ''Fruehe politische Systeme'', Frankfurt: Ullstein 1974, p. 204. Quoted in [[The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference]].</ref></blockquote>
  
  
 
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<blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth Fighting For, [[London]] and New York: Verso. p. 81-2, 102</ref></blockquote>
 
 
<blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p. 81-2, 102</ref></blockquote>
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 00:58, 21 May 2019


What Hegel called the "Night of the World," the abyss of radical negativity.




Does this not bring us back to the famous passage from the beginning of Hegel's Jenaer Realphilosophie about the "night of the world"?

The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity - an unending wealth of many representations, images, of which none belongs to him - or which are not present. This night, the interior of nature, that exists here - pure self - in phantasmagorical representations, is night all around it, in which here shoots a bloody head - there another white ghastly apparition, suddenly here before it, and just so disappears. One catches sight of this night when one looks human beings in the eye - into a night that becomes awful.[1]


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References

  1. G.W.F. Hegel, "Jenaer Realphilosophie," in Fruehe politische Systeme, Frankfurt: Ullstein 1974, p. 204. Quoted in The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference.
  2. Žižek, S. (2000) The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p. 81-2, 102