/lit/ - Literature

the question is whether the object = x is Out There, or found Inside. what nietzsche understood was that the belief in a vindication beyond the world is still an effect of the world, namely of your failure in it. God is dead - no principle conquers circumstance. "It" really is out there, haunting you. and if it is, then everything we've done to turn over every ontological rock is justified. cities really are as beautiful as they should be. space is infinite. hegel was not a mystic in one very important sense: God's depending on man's knowledge to exist extended to self-consciousness. self-consciousness requires the recognition of an Other to come to itself. anything else is an autistic game. the self is not self-mounted, its detachment from the world is only another name for its nothingness in it. nietzsche couldn't disavow that drive in end though he knew it was hypostasized failure. a coping mechanism that acquired spiritual grandeur by inexplicability. absolute selfhood is a fiction. this inability to commit to the other drives the mediatory effect of capital.