The power of negative thinking
As Hegel defines it:
"Thinking is, indeed, and essentially,
the negation of that which is immediately before us".
Te power of negative thinking
is the driving power of dialectical thought,
used as a tool for analyzing the world of facts
in terms of its internal inadequacy.
In this sense, Reason is the negation of the negative.
The negation which dialectic applies to the reality
is not only a critic of a conformistic logic,
which denies the reality of contradictions;
it is also a critic of the given state of affairs
on its own grounds...of the established system of life
which denies its own promises and potentialities.
Today, this dialectical mode of thought is alien
to the whole established universe of discourse and action.
