Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have
suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.
Not exact matches
In a short entry in his diary Kierkegaard describes how he experienced the complex
dialectic of
suffering in his relation to Regine Olsen:
The mystification which
dialectic suffers in Hegel's hands, by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of working in a comprehensive and conscious manner.
That we can comprehend and in some way
suffer with the pain of others is one of the deepest ways we are linked as humans and one of the core elements of the ever - evolving
dialectic between individual experience and social consciousness.