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The Dark Continent is neither dark nor unexplorable (398) • Brings elements traditionally associated with female (subconscious, darkness, supernatural) into "mainstream" • Masculine modes of philosophical and psychological interpretation (sublation) works against women— Recently Uploaded Slideshows
With his insistence that Marxism emerged from the Enlightenment by a process of "sublation" or "aufheben," Steiner is suggesting that Marx and Engels rejected the conception of equality that had been developed in the course of the Enlightenment, advanced in the English Revolution and made a principle of the bourgeois revolution in America and France.
Existence, therefore, which is what has emerged from the ground, contains the latter within itself, and the ground does not remain behind existence; instead, it is precisely this process of self-sublation and translation into existence.— Larval Subjects .
All things sing All names sing Every tonal difference, every sound All music in its destruction In its sublation Toward which point?— PoetryFoundation.org
If the philosophy of reflection, in the abstract lifelessness of its concepts, looked on opposites as incapable of sublation, and Schelling regarded them as immediately identical, if the former denied the identity of opposites, and the latter maintained it primordially given (in the absolute indifference which is to be grasped by intuition), the concrete concept secures the identity of opposites through self-mediation_, their passing over into it; it teaches us to know the identity as the result of a process.— History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

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