Diogenes is our paradigm figure. The viciousness and dishonesty of the present disgust. To break with it in thought is a condition of all further thought and action. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be indigent and distorted. Philosophizing binds us to genealogy, history, etymology, philology.
Philosophizing is consummate negativity.
The Socrates of the Euthyphro is our paradigm. He gives his interlocutor nothing to hold onto. Though necessarily indirectly, philosophizing aims at positive truth. At the end of the elenchus, amid the shards of our old world, the bare outlines of the new are just discernible. Euthryphro grasps his truth too soon and instead gets a handful of straw.