A position built on denying mediation paradoxically produces direct immediacy and rigid opposition

Evidence

But paradoxically, in so doing, Protestant religion has built a rigid and insurmountable opposition between subjectivity in its urge towards the eternal, and the eternal itself. Lacking finite mediation, infinity remains immediate and abstract. The very foundation of Lutheranism – its disdain for all identification between God and empirical reality as such – turns back against itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 802

Categorization

• DEFINE: Exemplifies the dialectical self-undermining structure that defines plasticity for Malabou — the recoil of a stance onto itself.
• XREF: connects to: Direct confrontation between philosophers can leave both parties puzzled and affronted — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 279; Immediacy reduces discourse to self-evident presence while mediation demands deliberate construction — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 336; Immediacy prioritizes circulation while mediation produces relations and difference — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 373 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Immediacy reduces discourse to self-evident presence while mediation demands deliberate construction #corroborates (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 336
• Immediacy prioritizes circulation while mediation produces relations and difference #expands (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 373
• Theory and immediacy are defined by mutually opposed spatial relations to the situation #corroborates (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 252