NPPF Canto two - scarf skin as German Scharfsinn: perspicacity.

[Glenn Scheper]

I've been hugging this nugget awaiting this canto to come.
Compare it's location as mental function to a nimbus, halo.

http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/stirner/theego1.html
_Max Stirner - THE EGO AND HIS OWN - Chapter 1_

 Thus the ancients mounted to spirit, and strove to become
 spiritual. But a man who wishes to be active as spirit is
 drawn to quite other tasks than he was able to set himself
 formerly: to tasks which really give something to do to the
 spirit and not to mere sense or acuteness,* which exerts
 itself only to become master of things. The spirit busies
 itself solely about the spiritual, and seeks out the "traces
 of mind" in everything; to the believing spirit "everything
 comes from God," and interests him only to the extent that
 it reveals this origin; to the philosophic spirit everything
 appears with the stamp of reason, and interests him only so
 far as he is able to discover in it reason, i. e., spiritual
 content.

 *Italicized in the original for the sake of its etymology,
 Scharfsinn -- "sharp-sense". Compare next paragraph.

 Not the spirit, then, which has to do with absolutely
 nothing unspiritual, with no thing, but only with the
 essence which exists behind and above things, with thoughts
 -- not that did the ancients exert, for they did not yet
 have it; no, they had only reached the point of struggling
 and longing for it, and therefore sharpened it against their
 too-powerful foe, the world of sense (but what would not
 have been sensuous for them, since Jehovah or the gods of
 the heathen were yet far removed from the conception "God is
 spirit," since the "heavenly fatherland" had not yet stepped
 into the place of the sensuous, etc.?) -- they sharpened
 against the world of sense their sense, their acuteness. To
 this day the Jews, those precocious children of antiquity,
 have got no farther; and with all the subtlety and strength
 of their prudence and understanding, which easily becomes
 master of things and forces them to obey it, they cannot
 discover spirit, which takes no account whatever of things.

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Max Stirner (1806-1856) was a pre-Nietzsche individualist,
anticipating D&G's Anti-OEdipus, w/o psychological jargon:

http://www.nonserviam.com/stirner/reviews/schiereck.html
 Max Stirner's Egoism and Nihilism
 stirner paterson man world egoism god spirit egoist himself religion
 because philosophy human freedom thinking just einzige love idea

http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/carlson.html
 Philosophical Egoism: Max Stirner
 stirner state marx because individual book union social man law
 rebellion himself nothing einzige men egoists revolution writings

http://fr.encyclopedia.yahoo.com/articles/s/s0006109_p0.html
 Yahoo! Encyclopedie - Max Stirner
 stirner est propriete unique par son tous cette dialectique max
 vous leur rien vie ainsi hommes marx suis uvre annees association

http://www.lsr-projekt.de/poly/eninnuce.html
 Max Stirner, a durable dissident - in a nutshell
 stirner marx nietzsche enlightenment einzige max criticism thought
 feuerbach however book ego philosophy repression because ideas

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secG6.html
 G.6 What are the ideas of Max Stirner?
 stirner property ibid state society because egoists individual
 ego individuals based private association egoist labour social

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http://www.globalart.net/karnernew_main.htm
UNSCHULD 128x116cm SCHARFSINN 116x128cm DAS STOLZE
 The pictures "Scharfsinn" and "Glorious Autumn" are made
 with keys on metal.

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http://www.rubedo.psc.br/artigosb/sincwitz.htm
_Rubedo - Artigos - SINCRONICIDADE E WITZ por Fernando Cavalheiro_
ituosidade, perspicacia (Scharfsinn em alemao), como tambem 

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http://www.1wad.de/archive.def.php4?id=450
One-Word-A-Day

 acumen

 (A-kyoo-men)

 Definition:

 cleverness, skill, good judgement

 German translation:

 der Scharfsinn, der Geschaftsverstand, unternehmerischer
 Scharfsinn

 Did you know? Acumen is Latin for sharpness from acuere, to
 sharpen. It means quickness of perception or discernment;
 penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

 Synonyms: Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness;
 acuteness.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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