A fully self-comprehending spirit can never face the event
Evidence
Spirit, whose task is to comprehend itself, to anticipate itself in everything that is now and is to come, can never encounter anything wholly other, can never come face to face, one might say, with the event. How, then, could there be room in Hegelian thought for the question of the future, if everything has already been permeated by spirit and, in this fashion, already completed? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 202
Categorization
- QUESTION: The posed question about whether the future has any room in Hegelian thought drives the rest of the book — worth tracking how Malabou eventually answers it.
- XREF: connects to: Masochism fails on principle because one can never apprehend one’s own objectivity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 963; Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346; One never gains concrete intuition of one’s own character as judged by the Other (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Absolute Spirit never waits for the future, which is already too late
#expands(0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 200 - Masochism fails on principle because one can never apprehend one’s own objectivity
#corroborates(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 963 - One never gains concrete intuition of one’s own character as judged by the Other
#corroborates(0.85) - Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346 - Consciousness never coincides with itself because it exists for a witness
#corroborates(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 329