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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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(2000) Ethical issues in twentieth-century French fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Conclusion

tarrying with the negative

Colin Davis

pp. 189-195

Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself…. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being.1

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230287471_10

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Davis, C. (2000). Conclusion: tarrying with the negative, in Ethical issues in twentieth-century French fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 189-195.

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