Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Derrida (on Hegel) on fidelity


The vulgar translation of the Aufhebung: nothing coming from the outside forbids you from cheating on your wife, but you no longer want to since you love her. Then the permission for you to separate from her, an authorization contrary to the duty of fidelity, remains suspended (aufgehoben) as it were by the past, but you no longer realize it since you no longer want to.” Derrida, Glas, trans. John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand, U of Nebraska, 1986, p. 35.

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