Re-reading Berman this week, I was struck by just how 'counterculture' he was, perhaps, for me, just a little too comfortable in both his situation and his opinions, appearing all the more the bohemian American Marxist, a creature so curious as to deserve it's own ethnography.
So I beg the question, what happens if we do not embrace the Faustian imperative, that of the great project, that of 'utopia' if you like? Whilst of course realising at the same time that in order to make an omelet, you are certainly going to have to break some eggs?
On the other hand that corresponding 'tragedy' of development is that fact that in his preoccupation and commitment to the project, Faust ends up blind to 'care'. Sometimes, it is clear, you just can't win.
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