The
traditional devices for constructing a comprehensive view of history and for retracing our past as a patient and continuous
development must be systematically dismantled. Necessarily, we
must dismiss those tendencies that encourage the consoling play
of recognitions. Knowledge, even under the banner of history it emphatically excludes
the rediscovery of ourselves. History becomes effective to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being.
‘'Effective" history deprives the self of the reassuring stability of life and nature, and it will not permit itself to be transported by a voiceless obstinacy toward a millenial ending. It will uproot its traditional foundations and relentlessly disrupt its pretended continuity.
The eruption of an event does not entail necessary continuity. Yet an entire historical tradition (theological or rationalistic) aims at dissolving the singular event into an ideal continuity—as a teleological movement or a natural process.
We should not be drawn to the attraction of a conclusion. They do not manifest the successive forms of a primordial (pre historic) intention, the intention should not be that of a conclusion.
‘'Effective" history deprives the self of the reassuring stability of life and nature, and it will not permit itself to be transported by a voiceless obstinacy toward a millenial ending. It will uproot its traditional foundations and relentlessly disrupt its pretended continuity.
The eruption of an event does not entail necessary continuity. Yet an entire historical tradition (theological or rationalistic) aims at dissolving the singular event into an ideal continuity—as a teleological movement or a natural process.
We should not be drawn to the attraction of a conclusion. They do not manifest the successive forms of a primordial (pre historic) intention, the intention should not be that of a conclusion.
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