Enlightenment culture reproduces faith’s detached self-pain as unhappy consciousness.
Evidence
Within the culture of the Aufklärung we find repeated the situation of faith: detached from any kind of tangible and sensory effectiveness, living a pain it creates for itself, changing inevitably into an unhappy consciousness. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 804
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the unhappy-consciousness figure from the Phenomenology — structural recurrence across historical forms, a key Hegelian move. — connects to: Faith can become a pain rather than a source of comfort. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 194; Enlightenment selfhood is purchased through permanent renunciation of happiness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1379; A secular self underlies rather than results from religious experience. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 256 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Enlightenment selfhood is purchased through permanent renunciation of happiness
#corroborates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1379 - Faith can become a pain rather than a source of comfort.
#expands(0.82) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 194 - Secularity is constituted through specific conceptions of agency and pain
#expands(0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 326 - A secular self underlies rather than results from religious experience.
#complicates(0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 256