Fury of Disappearance
The expression Fury of Disappearance comes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and describes there - in connection with his criticism of the French Revolution with its phase of terror - the problematic relationship between general freedom and historical-political action: “No positive work nor action can thus bring about general freedom; all that remains is negative activity ; it is only the fury of disappearing, ”says Hegel accordingly.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger took up the expression in 1980 to appropriately name one of his poetry volumes. In the last poem of the volume, Hegel's thought is taken up: The fury falls there in the historical, “what at first falls imperceptibly / then quickly, at breakneck speed [...]; she remains alone, calm, / the fury of disappearing. "