On 2012-01-30, at 8:17 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> Oh man, we can play the greatest hits from this genre all night. Here's another fantastic one.
>
> Paul Sweezy referred to this kind of thinking as "the present as history". Here's my man Teddy Adorno giving his poetic spin:
>
> "At the end. – The only philosophy which would still be
> accountable in the face of despair, would be the attempt to consider all things, as they would be portrayed from the standpoint of redemption.
> Cognition has no other light than that which shines from redemption out
> upon the world; all else exhausts itself in post-construction and
> remains a piece of technics. Perspectives must be produced which set the world beside itself, alienated from itself, revealing its cracks and
> fissures, as needy and distorted as it will one day lay there in the
> messianic light. To win such perspectives without caprice or violence,
> wholly by the feel for objects, this alone is what thinking is all
> about."
>
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1951/mm/ch03.htm
Faith-based Marxism: A contemporary disorder.