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“The king van forget for a while, in the sun of France, the ancient, evil whisper of the icd.”

“Everything could actually collapse: from trees to stars, from stars to laws, from physical laws to logical laws; and this not by virtue of some superior law whereby everything is destined to perish, but by virtue of the absence of any superior law capable of preserving anything, no matter what, from perishing.”

Interested in reading more books like this

“We must all of us recognize that we might, one day, become someone else, an absolute other, someone who will never be reconciled with themselves again ... without redemption or atonement … These modes of being without genealogy have nothing to do with the wholly other found in the mystical ethics of the twentieth century. The Wholly Other I’m talking about remains always and forever a stranger to the Other.”

Good.

"The question that life asks thought is about necessity as transcendental contingency".

Fantastic stuff.

You have to use your transcendental imagination to pretend it makes sense but other than that very good and underrated text

Amazing

Fantastic!

This is one of the most impressive pieces of scholarship I have ever seen.

“On Subtraction” is fantastic