(?)The understanding is astonishing because a bland undifferentiated abstraction about 'the whole' is on the tip of the Spirit's tongue---Wouldn't an undifferentiated whole be economical, at least? Why difference? Maybe Parmenidies should be right? Then the understanding, fueled by "magic" and death, somehow "astonishingly" reveals (reveals?) difference and determinateness. Is THAT why the understanding is "astonishing"??---WHY is it astonishing?
What would the 'Idea' be if understanding didn't 'tarry with the negative' and provide Geist with things like difference and determinateness? I want to say: it's "the circle that remains self-enclosed", and that would be my whole world. Can you even think "a world in which there is no Understanding"?
If the understanding is astonishing it's because somehow the world might easily have been an undifferentiated whole. The Understanding is the power of death, maintaining itself in "devastation", that astonishingly brings us difference and freedom. Doesn't §32 make it sound that way?
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