[D66] Filosofie van de Dode Hond

[J.N.]

Met de dode numerieke eenheid en de begripsloze verhoudingen van de
kosmologie zijn we weer terug bij de 'Dode Hond', oftewel Hegel en
Spinoza volgens de 'epigonen':

"The mystifying side of Hegelian dialectic I criticised nearly thirty
years ago, at a time when it was still the fashion. But just as I was
working at the first volume of “Das Kapital,” it was the good pleasure
of the peevish, arrogant, mediocre Epigonoi [Epigones – Büchner, Dühring
and others] who now talk large in cultured Germany, to treat Hegel in
same way as the brave Moses Mendelssohn in Lessing’s time treated
Spinoza, i.e., as a “dead dog.” I therefore openly avowed myself the
pupil of that mighty thinker, and even here and there, in the chapter on
the theory of value, coquetted with the modes of expression peculiar to
him. The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel’s hands, by no
means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of
working in a comprehensive and conscious manner. With him it is standing
on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would
discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell."
 --Karl Marx, Capital Volume One, 1873, Afterword to the Second German
Edition, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm)

De rationele kern van de Dode Hond, een omgekeerde dialectiek die 'op
zijn voeten staat', is echter sinds Adorno in onmin... (het
'niet-identieke', Negatieve Dialectiek, 1966)