Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 14:30:10 -0700 From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan) Subject: Re: Hegel and the Nietzschean Dialectic >just what the fuck is negativity in the hegelian >sense? All it means, Chris, is that the thing is defined by its relations--in other words, a thing without relations would be a _nothing_. Apropos here is a term from the art world--"negative space." Every artist, if they are any good, develops a keen sense for exactly these spaces, the "negative" spaces, which all the same carry a positive, and deciding, aesthetic import. It seems to me you are taking "words" as things-in- themselves, that is, as only having isolated and single meanings, rather than being defined by their relations, if you will. Steve ============================================================================== Steven E. Callihan -- callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com "Most of the expressions we use are metaphorical: they contain the philosophy of our ancestors..." --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, _Aphorisms_, "Notebook D 1773-1775," No. 87 ============================================================================== --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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