Kaufmann -- Hegel : Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary

Kaufmann -- Hegel : Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary
Hegel 's Clock (Reason in History, page 87-90 )

1. The very essence of spirit is ACTION. It makes itself what it essentially IS; it is its OWN product, its OWN work. Thus it becomes object of itself, thus it is presented to itself as an external existence.

2. Even though his imagination may have gone further, it has abandoned more far-reaching purposes; if reality did not fit them, he fits the purpose to reality. ( it turns to das Man )

3. It is this life of HABIT-- the watch is wound up and goes by itself -- which brings about natural death. (Hegel's clock )

4. Habit is tensionless activity. Only formal duration is left to it, in which plenitude and depth of purpose need NO LONGER to be heard.

Existence has become, so to speak, external, sensuous; it is not absorbed any more in its purpose.

5. World history in general is the development of Spirit in Time... ( Hegel's Clock )

Kaufmann : The Hegel Myth and Its Method (1959)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kaufmann.htm

惡搞 ( détournement, kuso ) 運用已存在的形式、概念，將之加以改造後, 對原先的意義和作用產生反噬和顛覆力，並以此傳達不同的、甚至是相反的訊息。惡搞是一種快樂抗爭。

快樂抗爭的靈感來源 ——弗雷勒的解放教育法
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100710/4/j3kk.html

Collapse - Terrifying Girls' High School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0ZNsvdGGE

full-movie
http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_kamare.html

Robert Solomon 's comment on Existentialism

1. " The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century.

I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately, sense of taking responsibility for who YOU are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair. But I think the truth is just the opposite.

2. Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it. It's like your life is yours to CREATE.

3. I've read the postmodernists with some interest, even admiration. But when I read them, I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of EXCUSES.

4. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking. Making decisions. DOING things and taking the consequences.

It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting. Nevertheless, what you DO makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example.

4. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always OUR decision WHO we are."