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sublation
(redirected from Aufhebung)

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sub·la·tion (sb-lshn)
n.
The detachment, elevation, or removal of a part.


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L's racially redolent, Ryman-referencing monochromes--one curatorial decision was telling: the installation of Jutta Koether's Fresh Aufhebung, 2003, a series of angst-filled black paintings with rough x-ed-out compositions, completed one each day for half a year, which worked its way from floor to ceiling.
But unlike Du Bois, who sought to solve the problem by envisioning a dialectical Aufhebung of a divided self into the actual and concrete self-consciousness of universal humanity, Baraka finds this gray-stained landscape one that cannot be reconciled according to a dialectic that raises to a higher truth the alienated consciousness, whereby the African-American is forced to see him/herself through the eyes of the other.
Here, Derrida speaks of "relating" both "restricted and a general economy" which, according to Derrida displaces "the very project of philosophy, under the privileged heading of Hegelianism" through an Aufhebung, a suspension as well as a retention of meaning.
 
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