I am fully in favor of the major liquidation of philosophy and the sciences of man that is currently taking place. The grave-digger's work is necessary, for what is being buried is truly dead -- even if there is too much ceremony. There is no need to exaggerate the task and make the undertaker the prototype of all future cultural life. We ought to let the dead bury the dead, and move on to other things.
The danger today, in fact, is that as the public becomes weary of these interminable funerary rites for meaning and of the funerary metaphysics it has swallowed for so long now, it will lose sight of the real accomplishments of modern thought, all of which are critical and negative. I subscribe to many facets of this criticism and find it indispensable. I simply refuse to admit that there is nothing more to be done from now on than to mull over past failures.
(From Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, as below)
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