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"The evolutionary notion of dialectical process tells us that the result is not just a dead body, that it does not stand alone, in abstraction from the process that engendered it: in this process, different moments first appeared in their unilateral form, while the final synthesis gathers them as sublated, maintaining their rational core."

"the true idea of the Christian collective was realized, but outside of the Church...it survived in other institutions, from revolutionary political parties to psychoanalytic societies...it is thus only in post-religious 'atheist' radical emancipatory collectives that we find the actualization of the idea of the Christiant collective—the necessary consequence of the 'atheistic' nature of Christianity itself."

"God (as subject supposed to know, as big Other, as the ultimate addressee beyond all empirical addresses) is a permanent constitutive structure of language."

6% "sophists broke down the mythical order of words and things...philosophy proper can only be understood as a reaction to this as an attempt to close the gap."

"the most elementary figure of dialectical reversal resides in transposing an epistemological obstacle into the thing itself, as its ontological failure (what appears to us as our inability to know the thing indicates a crack in the thing itself, so that our very failure to reach the full truth is the indicator of truth)."

25% in and questioning the life choices that sent me here. Reading Hegel formulate crime and punishment in terms of his idealist dialectic is maddening.

If you see me binging Hegel: I'm sorry. It will happen again.

Oh I am in love with the editorial introduction, wonderful stuff.

Philosophy was a mistake, someone kill Aristotle.

"The fundamental meaning of the Oedipus complex is that human desire is a history, that this history involves refusal and hurt, that desire begins educated to reality through the specific unpleasure inflicted upon it by an opposing desire."

"Americans are obsessively clean, to us, everyone is dirty…it's about coping with our own feelings about personal hygiene. Arguments like these might sound like unscientific conjecture, and in a way they are" Yeah, no kidding. The real joke is the psychologist that doesn't know the insular cortex.

Hard not to see the immense anxiety Heidegger feels towards his "They"/"das Man" (including the horrors of newspapers and public transit) as determining his very flight from socialization. I just can't see how Sartre felt that "the question of Heidegger's naziism remained open" after reading BT, it's just too blatant.

If Heidegger asserts one more time that being-towards-death is non-relational I might scream.

"Our first, last, and constant task is never to allow our fore-having, fore-sight, and fore-conception to be presented to us by fancies and popular conceptions, but rather to make the scientific theme secure by working out these fore-structures in terms of the things themselves."

Pleasantly surprised by BT and how palpable its influence has been on later philosophers who are dear to me.

Excited to finally get to parts of Lacan that influenced some of Judith Butler's work.

"Images and symbols in women cannot be isolated from images and symbols of women. The representation...of female sexuality, whether it is repressed or not, conditions its implementation, and its displaced emergences...seal the fate of the tendencies, however naturally refined one assumes them to be."

"The point is not to know whether I speak of myself in a way that conforms to what I am, but rather to know whether, when I speak of myself, I am the same as the self of whom I speak."

"I am not, where I am the plaything of my thought; I think about what I am where I do not think I am thinking."

This is the most maddening read I have ever embarked on. I am downing secondary sources like ibuprofen in a chronic flare-up.