Cycle 12 · 12 Dec 2023“I is another”, or contradictory identity- 50:10Aufheben means at once to suppress, to lift, and to preserve; translating it as "sublation" says that one removes a guard without removing the guard.
Aufhebung
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Summary
Dominique Pagani presents Aufhebung through the German word aufheben, which means both to suppress and to preserve. Later he adds the sense of lifting up, or raising12. To illustrate it, he often uses the image of the fruit that fulfils the flower by suppressing it3. He applies it in several fields. Thus, to fulfil the law is to suppress it, since it is no longer needed. In Nerval, going to Rousseau's tomb preserves the best of the maternal memory4. In the history of ideas, he uses the term to describe Hegel's relation to Romanticism1. He also uses it for Marx's relation to Hegel: Marx preserves what is revolutionary in Hegel and suppresses the fantasy5. In 2023, he comments on the French translation "relève": to relieve a guard is to suppress one guard without suppressing the guard itself2.
- 1Tribute to Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 2:08:42
- 2“I is another”, or contradictory identity12 Dec 2023 · 50:10
- 3#2 Harnessed to confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 13:31
- 4#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:36:46
- 5Praxis and psyche27 Mar 2023 · 33:15
Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 12 · 12 Dec 2023“I is another”, or contradictory identity
Talks · 27 Mar 2023Praxis and psyche- 33:15To suppress and preserve: Marx preserves what is revolutionary in Hegel and suppresses the fantasy.
Cycle 7 · 30 Mar 2020#2 Harnessed to confinitude- 13:31To suppress and preserve at once: the fruit fulfills the flower, but at the cost of suppressing it.
Cycle 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo- 2:08:42Suppression-preservation-elevation, like the fruit which suppresses and fulfills the flower: this is Hegel's relation to romanticism.
Cycle 4 · 11 Dec 2017#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:36:46To suppress and preserve: going to Rousseau's tomb preserves the best of the maternal memory, as the fruit preserves the promise of the flower.