What is Fluck talking about?

[tess marek]

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> tess marek schrieb:
> 
> > First, American individualism is a European
> concept.
> > The US took the concept from Europe. 
> 
>   right, there are - as hegel already pointed out -
> three roots of modern     
>   individualism:
>                           ° the renaissance
>                            
>                           ° the reformation
> 
>                           ° the (re)invention of the
> printing-press
> 
>  
>   these things were first established in europe but
> for really taking off they 
>   needed the energy-generator named AMERIKA ---   

Ah, but the Platonist, as we discover in Moby-Dick,
becomes a Gnostic Satan and has no place in America.

Ahab, like Blicero, wants to break on through to the
other side. And what will he find there? A platonist
can know the truth, the forms. But America is a bit
more Kantian. The supersensual is unkowable. (recall
that Ahab hoists two whale heads on his ship--Hegel's 
and Kant's. Kant is nearly pure Aristotle but for his
platonic reality. American pragmatism is likewise pure
Aristotle but it rejects the the
platonic/neo-platonic-Catholic/Kantian reality while
embracing the creative individualism of the Sophists. 

Platonism is rejected.  Well, Catholicism, but America
is and was as Anti-Catholic as she was and is the Seat
of Individualism. Hegel, (1770-1831. German
philosopher who proposed that truth is reached by a
continuing dialectic. His major works include
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817) and
The Philosophy of Right (1821)), aspires to set man
(Individual man) on the iron tracks of science by
traversing the course of the Universal Spirit to the
Station of Science. Hegel, being one of those
Europeans I spoke of, rejected Individualism:  Human
history in general is the progressive move from
bondage to freedom. Such
freedom is achieved only as the partial and incomplete
desires of the one are overcome and integrated
into the **unified system of the State** in which the
will of one is replaced by the will of all. In this
doctrine of the priority of the state, Hegel rejected
the individualism expressed in the American
Revolution. Such individualism runs directly contrary
to the nature of humanity and reality, for the
individual has value and reality only as a part of a
greater and unified whole. 

Part of the Unified whole? hmmm, sounds kinda Eastern
to my ear, Platonic, Catholic. But in America,
Jefferson, Emerson, Throreau, Wicks Cherrycoke, 
turning East would also we a turning West, Davey
Crocket, Boone, Mason and Dixon...and would celebrate
the Self, would Sing the Self, would become a
masculine Individualism that would either sink in
defiant rejection of kingly power or discover some way
to wed itself in brotherhood to the Other. Misreading
this marriage as homosexual (in GR or M-D) is a
misreading of American Individualism. 



"I own the speachless, placeless power; but to the
last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its
unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. In the
midstof the personified inpersonal, a personality
stand here." 
 --Ahab, M-D.416NB

An American personality, but to be complete it must be
married. Ah Humanity! 

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