Aphorisms dwell within the subject that systematic philosophy abandons

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 10; A philosophy can exist implicitly inside practical aphorisms; Readings that efface subjectivity to reach universality are actually particular and arbitrary — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1230 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Aphorism is the form suited to a vanishing subject #expands (0.92) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 10
• A philosophy can exist implicitly inside practical aphorisms #exemplifies (0.80)