aufheben

Rent for half of a two-bedroom apartment near campus...$500/month.

Undergraduate tuition...$4,215/semester.

Hearing Zelda talk about her upcoming quizzes in the Art of the Sixties (on Jackson Pollack) and Chinese Art (on the Shang through the Han), the paper that's due next week on Heraclitus and his influence on the Stoics; learning from her that Hegel's dialectic doesn't involve 'synthesis' at all, but aufheben...

Priceless.

There is no adequate English equivalent to the German word Aufheben. In German it can mean "to pick up", "to raise", "to keep", "to preserve", but also "to end", "to abolish", "to annul". Hegel exploited this duality of meaning to describe the dialectical process whereby a higher form of thought or being supersedes a lower form, while at the same time "preserving" its "moments of truth". - The journal Aufheben