[FRA:] From Hegel to Madonna

[James Rovira]

Ha...thank you for the quotation.

Jim

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Josh Robinson <jmr59 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:18 -0500, James Rovira wrote:
> > I beginning to think our real fetish is the fetish of the new.  The
> > new
> > insight, the new critique, the new development, the new concept.
>
> reminds me of the line in the reflections on the theory of class: 'The
> compulsion under which Hegel's philosophy conceives the restlessly
> destructive development of the ever-new consists in the fact that at
> every moment the ever-new is at once the old seen from up close.' (GS 8,
> p. 375)
>
> Josh
>
>