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  • This placing of "Aufhebung" between quotation marks is at the very least surprising!

    Archive 2008-06-01 enowning 2008

  • This placing of "Aufhebung" between quotation marks is at the very least surprising!

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Aesthetic 'Aufhebung' of a Philosophical Antinomy : that the apparent conflict between the epistemology and ontology of the poem itself makes for a consistent argument for an idealist philosophy.

    Notes on 'The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility' 1997

  • I've thought for a while -- and I write as a recovering Marxist -- that he turned to economics because he needed a way to demonstrate, on the basis of what he considered objective, material evidence, that -- in spite of the crushed hopes of 1848 -- the dialectic of History was still working away i 'the earth toward the Aufhebung of existing society.

    Stimulus package Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Jung's fear of Hegel's notion of Aufhebung, in which, as Spirit or Geist, the soul dialectically becomes the mind of God, enacts his fear of the psychosis (diagnosed in Jung's case by Winnicott as "childhood schizophrenia"), which, as an inflated identification with the archetype, can take possession of the soul as, for example, it took possession of

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • The spiritual nature of matter as the Alma Mater, which serves as the alchemical framework of Hegel 's dialectical idealism, is the sublation (Aufhebung) of raw inchoate matter by which it becomes what it always already potentially is: Geist or Spirit.

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • Satyam is Indra and Maytas (the spelling reversed - its negation, Sublation, Aufhebung) Vritra (the Python into which funds reportedly syphoned off) out to devour it.

    maytaSatyam Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Satyam is Indra and Maytas (the spelling reversed - its negation, Sublation, Aufhebung) Vritra (the Python into which funds reportedly syphoned off) out to devour it.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • There is upward movement throughout, accentuated by ardent flames and ascending puffs of smoke and steam, figuring a Hegelian Aufhebung, toward what Brillat-Savarin called "transcendent gastronomy."

    Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

  • First friend Melanie at Bump hits me with the "eight random things about me" tag last week, and then jj at Unrepentant Old Hippie guilts me further with the same tag, and worse -- she steals most of the eight people I was planning to tag for my post's closing Aufhebung.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: June 2007 Archives 2007

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