{"id":4206,"date":"2009-10-19T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2009-10-20T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T14:03:14","slug":"sharpe-subjectivity-hegelian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/19\/sharpe-subjectivity-hegelian\/","title":{"rendered":"sharpe subjectivity hegelian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacobin Reign of Terror … for Hegel, is that within it for the first time subjects could at any moment ‘lose everything’ with no hope of any equivalent return. To quote The Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em><\/p>\n

… all these determinations [that the subject receives in its ‘acculturation’ hence] have vanished in the loss suffered by the self in absolute freedom: its negation is the death that is without meaning, the sheer terror of the negative that contains nothing positive … [Hegel, 1997:362]<\/p>\n

… it is only when the individual has experienced this ‘terror of the negative’, and had the courage to see in what appeared to him qua particular Self<\/em> as a groundless alien<\/strong> force something which is ‘immediately one with self-consciousness’, that full ‘self-consciousness’ emerges. [\u017di\u017eek 1999a: 94] (139).<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Subject’ [thus] emerges at this very point of utterly meaningless voidance brought about by a negativity which explodes the frame of balanced exchange.\u00a0 That is to say, what is ‘subject’ [in Hegel] if not the infinite power of absolute negativity\/mediation … [for] whom every ‘pathological’ particular positive content [henceforth] appears as ‘posited’, as something externally assumed? [\u017di\u017eek, 1993, 27; Hegel 1997: 355-63] (139)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u017di\u017eek thus comments that what ‘… Bataille fails to … note … is that the modern (Cartesian) subject no longer needs to sacrifice goats intestines, his children, and so on, since his very existence already entails the most radical … sacrifice, the sacrifice of the very kernel of his being’.<\/em> [\u017di\u017eek, 1996a 125 … ] (139).<\/p>\n

In Hegel, who for \u017di\u017eek most consistently thought through this subject’s philosophical subversion, the ‘Cartesian’ subject<\/strong> corresponds to: ‘.. the purely negative gesture of limiting phenomena without providing any positive content that would fill out the space beyond the limit.’ [\u017di\u017eek, 1993, 21]<\/p>\n

From Hegel’s Realphilosophie<\/em> of 1805-6:<\/p>\n

The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity \u2014 an unending wealth of presentations, images, none of which occurs to him or is present … here shoots out a bloody head, there a white shape … [<\/span>\u017di\u017eek, 1991a, 87; 1997b:8; 1992: 50; 1999b: 136] (139)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jacobin Reign of Terror … for Hegel, is that within it for the first time subjects could at any moment ‘lose everything’ with no hope of any equivalent return. To quote The Phenomenology of Spirit … all these determinations [that the subject receives in its ‘acculturation’ hence] have vanished in the loss suffered by … Continue reading “sharpe subjectivity hegelian”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontology","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}