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Note On the Coherence of the American Phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

André Doremus
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The creation of any empire is comprehensible only in terms of the passion that carries it along, exceeds its historical dimension and returns to a cosmic dimension that is common to the whole of time. Great historical phases are only established in and as history by a passion that is the foundation and the cancellation of their historicity. The peoples who were called Barbarians were only called this for the way in which their upheaval of history was felt to be a cosmic and natural happening, beyond history in as much as it did not issue from history and expected nothing from it either. They were “all or nothing” in the pure state; they demonstrated at one and the same time the fact of having nothing to lose and everything to gain; they were the mixture of the origin and the end of the times; they were the irruption of the cosmic as such within the very core of history.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 17 , Issue 65 , March 1969 , pp. 49 - 73
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Copyright © 1969 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

page 49 note 1 The main part of this article was written in the winter of 1964.

page 69 note 1 Marx, Political and Philosophical Economy, 1844.

2 The Gay Science, fr. 7, 1886.