"aufheben" (was: April)

[paul m]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:10:46PM +0100, lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
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>  > Translate this please: Aufheben.
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"There is no adequate English equivalent to the German word
Aufheben. In German it can mean 'to pickup', 'to raise', 'to keep',
'to preserve', but also 'to end', 'to abolish', 'to annul'.  Hegel
exploited this duality of meaning to describe the dialectical process
whereby a higher form of thought or being supersedes a lower form,
while at the same time preserving it's 'moments of truth'." 

from http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html/auf1edit.htm
 (web page of Aufheben - an occasional journal of writing from an 
 autonomist marxist perspective and produced by some friends of mine)     

Paul M

(recently washed up again on these shores)