Subject: Drinking C.U.P
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:30:20 -0400 (EDT)


> 
> My most recently favorite quote from the c.u.p.?
> 
> "Wherever the subjective is of importance in knowledge, and where
> appropriation thus constitutes the crux of the matter, the process of
> communication is a work of art, and doubly reflected" (1941, 73).
> 
And he continues, "Its very first form is precisely the subtle
principle that the personalities must be held part from one another,
and not permitted to fuse or coagulate into objectivity. It is at this
point that objectivity and subjectivity part from one another."

I was doing more research before posting but this grabed me. I
instantly thought of ecstasy as that which resists fusion, "to the
"absolute" impossibility of complete immanence" (Nancy _The Inoperative
Community_ Pg. 6). He traces the philosophical history before Bataille
and during his time as he says, to Schelling and Heidegger. Going
farther, t/here, is also the notion of crisis in Schelling that
actually has its basis on what some call the Swabian mystical tradition
whose central texts are signed by the name of Jacob Boehme. We know
that Hegel was familiar with his writings even before he bought the
complete works in 1811. He mentions him in reference to what he is
saying about quality in the logical works. See, I can be generous with
references [laughter].


 



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