The Dash -- The Other Side Of Absolute Knowing: The Other Side Of Absolute Knowing

T he Dash Sh o r t C i r c u it s, Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, and Slavoj Žižek, editors The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, by Slavoj Žižek The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two, by Alenka Zupančič Is Oedipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud, by Jerry Aline Flieger Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK, by Alexei Monroe The Parallax View, by Slavoj Žižek A Voice and Nothing More, by Mladen Dolar Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan, by Lorenzo Chiesa The Odd One In: On Comedy, by Alenka Zupančič The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, edited by Creston Davis Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology, by André Nusselder Lacan at the Scene, by Henry Bond Laughter: Notes on a Passion, by Anca Parvulescu All for Nothing: Hamlet’s Negativity, by Andrew Cutrofello The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis, by Aaron Schuster What Is Sex? by Alenka Zupančič Liquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently, by Alexi Kukuljevic Incontinence of the Void: Economical-Philosophical Spandrels, by Slavoj Žižek The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing, by Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda T he Dash— Th e Oth er Side of A b s o l u t e Know i ng Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Joanna MT Pro by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-53535-9 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Series Foreword vii INTRODUCTION: HEGEL TO THE LETTER 1 PART I: FIRST TIME AS PHENOMENOLOGY, SECOND TIME AS … LOGIC? 9 1 “KANT BROUGHT TO HIS SENSES” 11 2 A TALE OF TWO BOOKS 29 3 THE DASH, OR HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SIGNS 53 PART II: PUNCTUATIONS OF ABSOLUTE KNOWING 63 4 65 HEGEL’S LAST WORDS Rebecca Comay 5 HEGEL’S FIRST WORDS 87 Frank Ruda EPILOGUE: THE POINT IS TO LOSE IT Abbreviations of Works by Hegel Notes Bibliography Index 107 113 115 157 173 S eri es Foreword © Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAll Rights Reserved A short circuit occurs when there is a faulty connection in the network— faulty, of course, from the standpoint of the network’s smooth functioning. Is not the shock of short-circuiting, therefore, one of the best metaphors for a critical reading? Is not one of the most effective critical procedures to cross wires that do not usually touch: to take a major classic (text, author, notion) and read it in a sh