Absolute Knowledge transforms sublation rather than arresting dialectical progress

Evidence

If dialectical sublation is not a process whose terms and operation are fixed in advance, frozen and immutable, the Aufhebung still needs to be shown as responding to its own law, the law that requires it to transform and simplify itself. Far from enforcing a violent stoppage of the dialectical progress, the advent of Absolute Knowledge will imply instead the exact opposite: its metamorphosis. Dialectical sublation will become absolute sublation – its own absolution. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1066

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines how Absolute Knowledge operates as the self-transformative event of the Aufhebung, preparatory to Malabou’s plasticity thesis.
  • XREF: connects to: Absolute Knowledge transforms via a retrospective move that turns predicate into speculative proposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 929; Sublation must itself evolve within the process it regulates to avoid circularity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1004; Absolute Knowledge transforms sublation itself rather than halting the dialectic. (+3 more)

Broader Connections