ABSTRACT
Livy, the Roman historian, identified a dilemma plaguing his age: “In our times we can neither endure our faults nor the means of correcting them.” And Hegel, as we shall see, located the dissipation of the Greek world in its inability to endure its own impulse to self-consciousness. Is late-modernity, then, the time when we can neither correct the modern drive to organize the world nor endure its consequences?
