Carrol wrote:
> Nostalgia knows no limits.
"In earlier stages of development the single individual seems to be developed more fully, because he has not yet worked out his relationships in their fullness, or erected them as independent social powers and relations opposite himself. It is as ridiculous to yearn for a return to that original fullness as it is to believe that with this complete emptiness history has come to a standstill. The bourgeois viewpoint has never advanced beyond this antithesis between itself and this romantic viewpoint, and therefore the latter will accompany it as legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” (Marx, Grundrisse, p. 162)
Ted
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Of course, what, if anything, constitutes the original fullness which 'the individual' ridiculously yearns for? Sounds like modernity's secularization of 'the fall.' We are thus free to conclude there is no original fullness, nor lack...........
Ian