A force of detachment alone distinguishes Aufhebung from the bad infinite
Evidence
Unless we take into account this automatism, which functions as the condition of auto-determination and auto-momentum, we will never grasp what happens at the stage of Absolute Knowledge. Without this same force of detachment, present everywhere in the Hegelian text and everywhere freeing spirit from its attachment to maintenance, it would be impossible to distinguish the process of the Aufhebung from that of the bad infinite. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1095
Categorization
- XREF: The automatism/freeing-detachment reading of Absolute Knowledge connects to Malabou’s plasticity thesis that the System lacks an author — and to her later brain plasticity work where neural self-determination is likewise authorless. — connects to: Neither circularity, the Absolute’s grandeur, nor any external stopper can halt false infinity