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  • In present-day German, "aufheben" does indeed carry the two separate senses; and they are hardly ever confused.

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

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  • I relish Ricoeur's work incidentally, although Dorrien refers to "liberal theology," he ignores the continental tradition except in passing but R maintained his Christian imprimatur by regressing to Hegel's aufheben as necessary.

    Philocrites: Uh oh, it's salvation by hermeneutics. 2006

  • "Lift" would do rather adequately, since e.g. restrictions or limitations are being aufgehoben past participle of aufheben, i.e. "lifted" in German.

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

  • That said, the meanings of tollo and aufheben do seem to correspond quite well.

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

  • Hegel's writing is difficult, but his language is far less jargon-laden than the translations, and in the case of aufheben, he was just skillfully using an ordinary but versatile German word in a good writerly way.

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

  • And finding this particular Hegelian/dialectic sense of aufheben anything but transparent even in the original German.

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

  • And yes, aufheben is a many-splendored word; the basic meaning is 'pick up' heb es auf 'pick it up!'

    languagehat.com: SUBLATE. 2005

  • For any attempt to resolve the issue by pronouncing the work of critique to be wholly isomorphous with the contingent material experiences that gave rise to it or, alternatively, as sublating (aufheben) aesthetic experience into pure abstractions invariably forecloses on the ethical implications of critical practice.

    Pfau, Coda & Works Cited' 1999

  • 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.

    unknown title 2009

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