After the Philosophy of Spirit, subjectivity sheds its human shape entirely

Evidence

Dialectical theory, abhorring anything isolated, cannot admit aphorisms as such. In the most lenient instance they might, to use a term from the Preface to the Phenomenology of Mind , be tolerated as ‘conversation’. But the time for that is past. Nevertheless, this book forgets neither the system’s claim to totality, which would suffer nothing to remain outside it, nor that it remonstrates against this claim. … If today the subject is vanishing, aphorisms take upon themselves the duty ‘to consider the evanescent itself as essential’. They insist, in opposition to Hegel’s practice and yet in accordance with his thought, on negativity: ‘The life of the mind only attains its truth when discovering itself in absolute desolation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 10 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The meaning of this division organizes itself in the process of the soul’s singularization which, from its beginning in the ‘universal’ (understood as ‘the immaterialism of nature’ or ‘simple ideal life’), moves progressively towards self-individuation until it becomes ‘singular self’. From the ‘sleep of spirit’ to the ‘soul as work of art’ the genesis of the individual is accomplished, that individual which, configured as the ‘Man’, finally stands forth in the guise of a statue. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 318 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Language is spirit’s perfect expression while the human figure is only its first appearance — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 543; Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 318; Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 374 (+8 more)

Related

• Aphorisms dwell within the subject that systematic philosophy abandons (similarity 0.85)
• Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject (similarity 0.83)
• Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit (similarity 0.82)
• The soul becomes both substance and subject in Hegel’s analysis. (similarity 0.82)
• Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature (similarity 0.81)
• In Hegel fulfilled subjectivity abandons its human and anthropological shape (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel distinguishes the feeling soul from mere natural individuality. (similarity 0.80)
• The old subject survives as mere for-itself after its substance is dissolved (similarity 0.80)
• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference (similarity 0.80)
• Spirit presents itself differently in nature, art, religion, and philosophy (similarity 0.79)
• Philosophy’s plastic activity moves through logic, nature, and spirit (similarity 0.79)
• Philosophy realizes the subjective freedom that Christian religion first disclosed. (similarity 0.79)
• Spirit becomes subject only by fashioning substance as its own material. (similarity 0.79)
• Dismissing the Ego threatens to annihilate the philosopher’s interpretive initiative (similarity 0.79)
• Spiritual development is simultaneously an appearance and an explosion of form (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 318
• Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject #corroborates (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 10
• Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation #expands (0.82)
• Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 374
• Aphorisms dwell within the subject that systematic philosophy abandons #responds-to (0.80)
• Philosophy’s plastic activity moves through logic, nature, and spirit #expands (0.80)
• Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning #corroborates (0.78)
• Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 281
• The absoluteness of movements dissolves individual conscience and ends-means distinctions #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 631
• Losing oneself in an object is secretly the emptiest assertion of subjectivity #qualifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 44