Category Archives: Original difference

An overview: Hegel

For almost two centuries now, Hegel has been read as Continue reading →

Both Hegel and Heidegger go to great length in addressing Continue reading →

Die philosophische Reflexion ist bedingt, oder die transzendentale Anschauung kommt Continue reading →

Der reine Begriff aber oder die Unendlichkeit als der Abgrund Continue reading →

Sein west und währt nur, indem es durch seinen Anspruch den Menschen an-geht. (…) Dies besagt keineswegs, das Continue reading →

The closing lines of Die Freundschaft (1782):

Allerdings nur solange Dasein ist, das heißt die ontische Möglichkeit Continue reading →

It is no accident that Hekate (Ekath) played such an Continue reading →

The circle–is it closed? And is there really no way out? And is there only one Continue reading →

The small word ‘nur‘ (= only) is enormously important to Continue reading →

Das reine Selbsterkennen im absoluten Anderssein, dieser Äther als solcher, Continue reading →

Hölderlin’s Der Ister

lange haben
Das Schickliche wir gesucht,
Nicht ohne Continue reading →

From the Völuspá section of the Norse-Icelandic Poetic Edda, with English and Continue reading →

Para venir a gustarlo todo,
no quieras tener gusto en Continue reading →

1 Per me si va ne la città dolente,
2 Continue reading →

One of Beckett’s Quatre Poèmes from 1948 reads (in his Continue reading →

Beckett’s last poem (first published in 1990), What is the Continue reading →

Beckett directed that his 1976 Neither be included with his “short prose” rather than with his Continue reading →

Krapp’s Last Tape, Samuel Beckett’s short play from 1958, introduces Continue reading →

An intense contest is inevitably implicated in the very idea Continue reading →

Aber ein wesentliches Moment ist dies Geschiedene, Unwirkliche selbst; denn Continue reading →

For a brazen anvil falling down from heaven nine nights Continue reading →