The New Inspirational Movement

‘Atracar’, spanish for ‘to stuff oneself!’, from my ‘Car/tunes’ series. 18″x24″ prints are available for $50.00 plus shipping&handleling. Gracias! -rene

“Desire is what transforms Being, revealed to itself by itself in (true) knowledge, into an “object” revealed to a “subject” different from the object and “opposed” to it. It is in and by-or better still, as -”his” Desire that man is formed and is revealed - to himself and to others-as an I, as the I that is essentially different from, and radically opposed to, the non-I. The (human) I is the I of a Desire or of Desire. The very being of man, the self-conscious being, therefore, implies and presupposes Desire. Consequently, the human reality can be formed and maintained only within a biological reality, an animal life. But, if animal Desire is necessary condition of self-consciousness, it is not the sufficient condition. By itself, this Desire constitues only the Sentiment of self. In contrast to the knowlege that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the “negation,” the destruction, or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus, all action is “negating.” -Alexandre Kojeve Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

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