Absolute Knowledge’s anonymity threatens to abolish individual interpretive initiative

Evidence

Yet we may find ourselves objecting: what kind of status can be enjoyed by this interpreting subjectivity if, as our analysis has shown, the Ego has been dismissed? Doesn’t the ‘Self’, because of its anonymity and its automatism, threaten to annihilate all individual exegetical initiative? We could go on: it is hard to see how the philosopher could survive the speculative precipitation of philosophy (precipitation understood here in two senses, of ‘haste’ and the chemical phenomenon of the precipitate). What could be the task of the philosopher when the unfolding of the speculative content abbreviates before his eyes into simplified determinate moments? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1135

Categorization

• XREF: The tension between systemic/automatic thought and individual agency parallels the deterministic-versus-plastic brain debates. — connects to: Absolute Knowledge is knowledge of its own limit, not closed totality; Absolute Knowledge’s stopping role must be necessity, not chance — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1002; Absolute Knowledge arises from being’s own self-systematizing, not from the I — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1090 (+7 more)
• QUESTION: If the Ego is dismissed, who attends the reading? This objection presumably gets resolved in the following pages — worth tracking how.

Broader Connections

• Absolute Knowledge transforms sublation itself rather than halting the dialectic. #expands (0.85)
• Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought #corroborates (0.82) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123
• The spectator theory of knowledge denies the public a creative role #corroborates (0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 374
• Absolute Knowledge remains plastic, transforming individuals and their future expectations. #contradicts (0.80)
• Absolute Knowledge may be the end of all events and any possible event #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 901