The New Constellation and the French Revolution

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jul 26 12:27:09 PDT 1999


I would appreciate someone (perhaps ken himself) translating the following -- not one phrase of which is intelligible to me.

Carrol

ken wrote:


> This is a moment of abstract negativity, the
> epistemological mistake of treating regulative ideas as
> constitutive - in other words, there is a disavowal here, a
> repression - which is manifest by the reduction of the subject
> to the process of subjectivization... a reduction that can only
> end in terror. Against Bernstein's Hegelianism, the subject is
> not substance! In Kantian terms: Bernstein's sublime
> reconciliation and rupture turns into the monsterous, as a
> jealous history takes its vengeance on future uncertainty right
> here in the present. Otherwise known as the French
> Revolution.
>
> ken



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