Antigone. The central claim of the paper is the following: The very contradictions that fuel dialectical normativity can also trap individuals within an obsolete actuality, without immediate hope of escape. Indeed, the irreducible dependence of dialectical thinking upon the actions and decisions of individual consciousness expose it to the threat of continual stasis or regression. This ineliminable possibility of failure is what is here called the "undialectical' moment of the dialectic, which Hegel understands rather as a negative condition of possibility of freedom and rationality." /> On the "undialectical' - Macdonald Iain | sdvig press