Coetzee's Disgrace as Hegelian reconciliation
example · film: Disgrace (book by J.M. Coetzee) ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek cites J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace as the closest literary approximation to Hegelian reconciliation: the hero loses everything, and this total loss/acceptance is the reconciliation, not a triumphant reappropriation.
As told 2
“the final situation of the hero, no this you lose everything you are this total loss. This is maybe the closest we get to maybe to Hegelian reconciliation.”
“That's reconciliation at its purest. This total despair where the guy accepts... It's something like that that I claim Hegel has in mind with reconciliation.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
Hegelian reconciliation
×2
excess of radical negativity
×1
Versöhnung (reconciliation)
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Its cast and sources
populated by
J. M. Coetzee2Napoleon III1John Malkovich1opera: Parsifal1film: They Live1personal/autobiographical1Slovenian/Yugoslav1Christian/biblical1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Žižek cites J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace as the closest literary approximation to Hegelian reconciliation: the hero loses everything, and this total loss/acceptance is the reconciliation, not a triumphant reappropriation., illustrating Hegelian reconciliation
Žižek holds up Coetzee's novel (and the Malkovich film) as the best illustration of genuine Hegelian reconciliation, not triumphant re-appropriation but a desperate, resigned acceptance of the very degradation that is undoing you., illustrating reconciliation (Hegelian),less than nothing