Absolute Knowledge transforms sublation itself rather than halting the dialectic.

Evidence

However, contrary to what one would initially imagine, these two processes of sublation and abrogation are completely interdependent. Considering the last moment of absolute spirit (Philosophy), one readily notes the synonymy between the verbs aufheben3 and befreien (’ to liberate’), as well as ablegen (‘to discard’, ‘to remove’, ‘to take away’). Speculative abrogation, in no way alien to the process of the Aufhebung, is indeed its fulfilment. Abrogation is a sublation of sublation (relève de la relève), the result of the Aufhebung’s work on itself and, as such, its transformation. The movement of suppression and preservation produces this transformation at a certain moment in history, the moment of Absolute Knowledge. Speculative abrogation is the absolute sublation, if by ‘absolute’ we mean a relief or sublation (relève) that frees from a certain type of attachment. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1076 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The principle of simplification, taken as a tendency or inclination, is actually the potential on which the automatism of the System draws. At the moment of Absolute Knowledge, the System emerges as a movement, reassembling that presence which is not present to itself. Here again, this is not something done by the ‘I’. Rather, it is because being, on its own account, tends to form itself into a System, that the self-determination of substance – totality’s differentiation into individual and determinate forms – appears at the end of the day as a movement of ontological taxonomy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1090 (#complicates, via linked claim)

If these verbs characterize what we are calling abrogation, how can we distinguish that from sublation? To the degree that it acts as a sublation which has been absolved and made absolute, abrogation describes the dual process of suppression/preservation. Yet the process of suppression/preservation it describes is one that has been detached from the subject–object relation, one that has been liberated from the instance which had traditionally claimed to be its master while in reality being its subordinate, its derivative. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1092 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
  • XREF: connects to: Absolute Knowledge is knowledge of its own limit, not closed totality; Absolute Knowledge may be the end of all events and any possible event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 901; Absolute Knowledge remains plastic, transforming individuals and their future expectations. (+10 more)

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