Carrol Cox wrote:
> 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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