Selection #11: Transgression opens onto a scintillating and constantly
affirmed world, a world without shadow or twilight, without that
serpentine "no" that bites into fruits and lodges their contradictions at
their core. It is the solar inversion of satanic denial. It was originally
linked to the divine, or rather, from this limit marked by the sacred it
opens the space where the divine functions. ("Preface to Transgression,"
p. 37)
Sort of a transgressive utopia? Notice the distinct advantage
of the kind of space opened up by transgression relative to
the kind accessed by transcendence. Is there perhaps something
"childlike" (in the sense of Zarathustra's "metamorphoses";
see _Zarathustra_, First Part, Sec 1 "The Three Metamorphoses")
about transgression? Apparently the "no" of *ressentiment*
(see Nietzsche, _Genealogy of Morals_, First Essay, Section 10)
is sidestepped.
--John
affirmed world, a world without shadow or twilight, without that
serpentine "no" that bites into fruits and lodges their contradictions at
their core. It is the solar inversion of satanic denial. It was originally
linked to the divine, or rather, from this limit marked by the sacred it
opens the space where the divine functions. ("Preface to Transgression,"
p. 37)
Sort of a transgressive utopia? Notice the distinct advantage
of the kind of space opened up by transgression relative to
the kind accessed by transcendence. Is there perhaps something
"childlike" (in the sense of Zarathustra's "metamorphoses";
see _Zarathustra_, First Part, Sec 1 "The Three Metamorphoses")
about transgression? Apparently the "no" of *ressentiment*
(see Nietzsche, _Genealogy of Morals_, First Essay, Section 10)
is sidestepped.
--John