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In this cosmotheandric shipwreck-ism, the foundering or Scheitern of Jaspers,80 a frustration in the sense of shipwreck, the world naufragates as an empiric reality in “the orientation of the word.”81 This “very self of self, or selfness of the self” of existence, naufragates in “existential clarification,” in “transcendence.”82 Shipwreck as frustration, or failure in the diverse modes of being, primordially, in the inability to be self-sustained.83 Who may sustain Job or K or Holocaust or Latin American victims of tyrants and despots in their frail, denuded hours? Who may sustain the summit of motion in the claws of Zeno’s indefatigable motionlessness? What pathways, what divine spheres must they, trembling, leap in faith,84 and divinely cross in this collapse of being, time and space?
In this grim, Dantesque spectacle, in this odyssey where the Olympian, the Celestial and the gaze of Lady Justice 3⁄4 all hidden 3⁄4 are abandoned at midnight’s apogee 3⁄4 beings, perennially torn between the chthonic Charybides and Scylla,85 the lesser of two evils, rock back and forth, convulsed by spinning ladders and corridors of
80 Ferrater Mora. Diccionario de Filosofía. Vol. III. “Naufragio.” Barcelona: Ariel, 2001. 2510-11. See also Santinello, G. Enciclopedia Filosofica. “Naufragio.” Instituto per la Collaborazione Culturale. Firenze: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1957. 828. Jaspers, Karl. Philosophie. III. 219 ff.
81 Ferrater Mora. Diccionario de Filosofía. Vol. III. “Naufragio.” Barcelona: Ariel, 2001. 2510-11. See also Santinello, G. Enciclopedia Filosofica. “Naufragio.” Instituto per la Collaborazione Culturale. Firenze: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1957. 828. See also Jaspers, Karl. Philosophie. III. 219 ff.
82 Ferrater Mora. Diccionario de Filosofía. Vol. III. “Naufragio.” Barcelona: Ariel, 2001. 2510-11. See also Santinello, G. Enciclopedia Filosofica. Instituto per la Collaborazione Culturale. Firenze: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1957. 828. See also Jaspers, Karl. Philosophie. III. 219 ff.
83 FerraterMora.DiccionariodeFilosofía.Vol.III.“Naufragio.”Barcelona:Ariel, 2001. 2510-11. See also Santinello, G. Enciclopedia Filosofica. Instituto per la Collaborazione Culturale. Firenze: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1957. 828. See also Jaspers, Karl. Philosophie. III. 219 ff.
84 Term coined by Kierkegaard.
85 Homer. The Odyssey. Book 12.1 Trans. by Richmond Lattimore. New York: Harper, 1965. 73
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