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Anti-Philosophy or the Post-Hegelian Break
The scene of philosophical ideas is perceived as secondary scene of representation, a screen, and then you assert some more substantial life process, to which Hegel’s idea is just an illusory reflection,
The first one to do this was Schelling who claimed there is irrational abyss of willing the life of will that is more substantial than ideas and that Hegel is cheating. Hegel’s Becoming, if it is to be actual becoming, presupposes some positive being.
Kierkargard: the individual, absolute decision, leap of faith. the intense actuality of subjective authenticity, that can’t be covered up by abstract Hegelian movement of notions etc. Marx: true science of life, Hegel is mystifying reality, pseudo self-movement. It’s not idea which is developing, its real people, Hegel confuses subject and predicate, its not individuals who are predicates of idea as it is developing it is idea predicate of real individuals. THIS IS ANTI-PHILOSOPHY
Return to Hegel: Basic Coordinates
– This is a ridiculous image of Hegel : Hegel is a so-called vanishing mediator between traditional metaphysics and the post-Hegelian turn to actual reality, Anti-Philosophy. Žižek DISS of Charles Taylor click here Hegel is not in-between still idealist but moments of historical description.
Something UNIQUE happened in Hegel: Unthinkable, the entire post-Hegelian anti-Philosophy is one desperate attempt to obliterate what Hegel did. They do this by constructing a ridiculous image of Hegel. He is a screen memory, a comfortable image used to cover over something much more traumatic. The post-Hegelian break misses something in Hegel.
What is a Vanishing Mediator or again in Berlin in 2011
If you are in-between you see something, which afterwards becomes invisible. For a brief moment those apparent reactionaries like Charlie Chaplin saw the ominous dimensions of VOICE, a spectral dimension of voice, voice as foreign body intruder that can haunt us. But this Chaplin moment became INVISIBLE.
Berlin 2011: Rabinovitch a Jew who wants to leave the Soviet Union