Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit
Evidence
Dialectical theory, abhorring anything isolated, cannot admit aphorisms as such. In the most lenient instance they might, to use a term from the Preface to the Phenomenology of Mind , be tolerated as ‘conversation’. But the time for that is past. Nevertheless, this book forgets neither the system’s claim to totality, which would suffer nothing to remain outside it, nor that it remonstrates against this claim. … If today the subject is vanishing, aphorisms take upon themselves the duty ‘to consider the evanescent itself as essential’. They insist, in opposition to Hegel’s practice and yet in accordance with his thought, on negativity: ‘The life of the mind only attains its truth when discovering itself in absolute desolation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 10 (
#epitomizes, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Man is fundamentally the desire to be, a lack of being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1329; A person is nothing but the sum of his actions and undertakings — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 18; The old subject survives as mere for-itself after its substance is dissolved — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 9 (+4 more)
Related
- Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject (similarity 0.89)
- Aphorisms dwell within the subject that systematic philosophy abandons (similarity 0.86)
- After the Philosophy of Spirit, subjectivity sheds its human shape entirely (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject
#epitomizes(0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 10