La inquietud de lo negativo
Hegel is the thinker who inaugurated the contemporary world. All his work is permeated and motivated by conscience and by the excitement of having to deal with a decisive turning point in the course of the world, and therefore in the course of philosophy. The sense no longer is proposed as the religious bond of a community, and knowledge is no longer commands after all a sense.
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From Hegel we have not ceased to penetrate this negativity, and Hegel's own time, like his philosophy, in turn lie very far behind us. In a way, we can not collect from them some meaning that was still available. It is therefore so, right here, is not to "return" to Hegel, not a "Hegelianism" exposed: it is read Hegel, or I think, as was re-read and re-thought to us, as already it has been put into play in thinking. But the first thing you should think about is this: the meaning is never giv...read more
