Reason and Revolution. Herbert Marcuse 1941  The Philosophy of
History  BEING, for dialectical logic, is a process through
contradictions that determine the content and development of all
reality. The Logic had elaborated the timeless structure of this
process, but the intrinsic connection, between the Logic and the
other parts of the system, and, above all, the implications of
the dialectical method destroy the very idea of timelessness.
The Logic had shown that the true being is the idea, but the
idea unfolds itself ‘in space’ (as nature) and ‘in time’ (as
mind).’ Mind is of its very essence affected by time, for it
exists only in the temporal process of history. The forms of the
mind manifest themselves in time, and the history of the world
is an exposition of mind in time. The dialectic thus gets to
view reality temporally, and the ‘negativity’ that, in the
Logic, determined the process of thought appears in the
Philosophy of History as the destructive power of time.  The
Logic had demonstrated the struct