Since more than a century of ruptures, of surpassings with or without overturnings, rarely has a relation to Hegel been so little definable: a complicity without reserve accompanies Hegelian discourse, takes it seriously up to the end, without an objection in philosophical form, while, however, a certain burst of laughter exceeds it and destroys its sense, or signals, in any event, the extreme point of experience which makes Hegelian discourse dislocate itself; and this can be done only through close scrutiny and full knowledge of what one is laughing at.