@article{ref1,
title="Demystifying the Negative: René Girard's Critique of the "Humanization of Nothingness"",
journal="Forum Philosophicum",
year="2019",
author="Wilmes, A.",
volume="24",
number="1",
pages="91-126",
abstract="This paper will address René Girard's critique of the &quot;humanization of nothingness&quot; in modern Western philosophy. I will first explain how the &quot;desire for death&quot; is related to a phenomenon that Girard refers to as &quot;obstacle addiction.&quot; Second, I will point out how mankind's desire for death and illusory will to self-divinization gradually tend to converge within the history of modern Western humanism. In particular, I will show how this convergence between self-destruction and self-divinization gradually takes shape through the evolution of the concept of &quot;the negative&quot; from Hegel to Kojève, Sartre and Camus. Finally, we shall come to see that in Girard's view &quot;the negative&quot; has tended to become an ever-preoccupying and unacknowledged symptom of mankind's addiction to &quot;model/obstacles&quot; of desire. © 2019, Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1426-1898",
doi="10.35765/forphil.2019.2401.04",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/forphil.2019.2401.04"
}