EE p 52<\/p>\n
In the night, where we are riveted to it, we are not dealing with anything. But this nothingness is not that of pure nothingness. There is no longer this<\/em> or that<\/em>; there is not \u2018something.\u2019 But this universal absence is in its turn a presence, an absolute , unavoidable presence\u201d (52).<\/strong><\/p>\n EE p. 55<\/p>\n To be conscious is to be torn away from the there is, since the existence of a consciousness constitutes a subjectivity, a subject of existence that is, to some extent, a master of being, already a name in the anonymity of the night. Horror is somehow a movement which will strip consciousness of its very \u2018subjectivity.\u2019 Not in lulling it into unconsciousness, but in throwing it into an impersonal vigilance, a participation. . . (55)<\/strong><\/p>\n EE 56<\/p>\n [Horror is] a participation in the there is<\/em>, in the there is<\/em> which returns in the heart of every negation, in the there is<\/em> that has no exits. It is, if we may say so, the impossibility of death, the universality of existence even in its annihilation. (56)<\/strong><\/p>\n EE 62<\/p>\n We are thus introducing into the impersonal event of the there is not the notion of consciousness but of wakefulness, in which consciousness participates, affirming itself as a consciousness because it only participates in it (62).<\/strong><\/p>\n EE 63<\/p>\n In this anonymous nightwatch where I am completely exposed to being, all the thoughts which occupy my insomnia are suspended on nothing. They have no support. I am, one might say, the object rather than the subject of an anonymous thought. (63)<\/strong><\/p>\n EE p 83<\/p>\n the event by which the act expressed by a verb became a being designated by a substantive. Hypostasis, the apparition of a substantive, is not only the apparition of a new grammatical category: it signifies the suspension of the anonymous there is<\/em>, the apparition of a private domain, of a noun. On the ground of the there is<\/em> a being arises. (EE 83)<\/strong><\/p>\n EE p 85-86 \u00a0To reach for the other, he says, involves:<\/p>\n on the ontological level, the event of the most radical breakup of the very categories of the ego, for it is for me to be somewhere else than myself: it is to be pardoned, to not be a definite existence. (EE 85-86)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EE p 52 In the night, where we are riveted to it, we are not dealing with anything. But this nothingness is not that of pure nothingness. There is no longer this or that; there is not \u2018something.\u2019 But this universal absence is in its turn a presence, an absolute , unavoidable presence\u201d (52). EE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":1755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions\/2029"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}