{"id":941,"date":"2018-05-29T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:34:49","slug":"development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Development 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCF5077-atis-rizistanz-haiti-documenta15-installation-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCF5077-atis-rizistanz-haiti-documenta15-installation-detail.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCF5077-atis-rizistanz-haiti-documenta15-installation-detail-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCF5077-atis-rizistanz-haiti-documenta15-installation-detail-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCF5077-atis-rizistanz-haiti-documenta15-installation-detail-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Engels asserted &#8230; &#8216;Just as Darwin discovered the laws of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=448\">development<\/a> of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=755\">human<\/a> history.&#8217; Thus, development came to be infused with fresh earnestness and world-historical urgency, and then exalted with the prestige of science. Mere being came to be degraded, thanks to Germany&#8217;s special experience, by becoming. As Nietzsche wrote caustically, &#8216;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=61\">German<\/a> himself is not, he is becoming, he is <em>developing<\/em>. <em>Development<\/em> is thus the truly German discovery.&#8217; &#8230; All the hopes, transmitted from Marxists to modernization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=201\">theorists<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=30\">free-marketeers<\/a>, of &#8216;development emerge from nineteenth-century German thinkers: the first people to give a deep meaning and value to a process defined by continuous movement with a fixed direction and no terminus. All our simple dualisms &#8211; progressive and reactionary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=236\">modern<\/a> and anti-modern, rational and irrational &#8211; derive from the deeply internalized urge to move to the next stage of &#8216;development&#8217;, however nebulously defined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: Pankaj Mishra: Age of Anger, a History of the Present. O.O.: Allen Lane (Penguin Random House) 2017, S. 204-205.<\/p>\n<p>Abb.: Michel Lafleur \/ Tom Bogaert: Famasi Mobil Kongol\u00e8, Teil von Atis Rezistanz Kollektiv: Documenta15-Installation, Detail, 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">05\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Engels asserted &#8230; &#8216;Just as Darwin discovered the laws of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history.&#8217; Thus, development came to be infused with fresh earnestness and world-historical urgency, and then exalted with the prestige of science. Mere being came to be degraded, thanks to Germany&#8217;s special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}