THE END OF HISTORY (1804-1807)

Hegel contra Holderlin,
After the madness,
After 1804 …
Lost in time,
Hegel refutes
Transcendental Idealism,
For nothing …

Hegel trounces the
Subjective pose,
Of poets, prophets,
Immanentists,
Trying Time Itself
To stir the Immense abyss --
Mise-en-abyme …

Hegel trounces all that
Matters most (least),
System upon system,
Episteme upon episteme,
Foucault waiting
To ransack the archive …

‘Here’ we see
Historicized Spirit,
Cassirer’s history/biography
Of God …
Oh god! Spare us these times,
The truculent spirit
Of system-building,
The atrocious art of Logic …

Holderlin holds out,
Against the miasmic
Dialectic …
Against all that is
Against the ineffable --
Imaginary Time-Space …

Mad or otherwise,
Such a spirit reveals
World-Soul in passing,
All that measures
Time and Not-Time …

We cannot predict
The future,
Insofar as Truth
Arrives on wings,
Always outside Reason,
Beside Itself --
Between Real and Irreal …

GK (DRAFT 01/09/07)