Being absorbed in content paradoxically enables genuine philosophical predication

Evidence

Thinking remains sunk (versenkt) in its content. Now this state of being bogged down in the matter and this weight which holds the subject fast and impedes it are, paradoxically, the conditions of a genuine fall of predication. And this last formula should be understood in the double sense of a fall which predication itself causes and the decline which predication suffers. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1212

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Malabou’s core concept of plasticity — speculative predication’s ‘fall’ analogizes the double meaning (receiving and giving form) elsewhere in her system. — connects to: Existentialist philosophy values active engaged form over abstract speculation — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 38; Phenomenology rediscovers philosophy by describing lived things rather than questioning reality — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 12; Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 54

Broader Connections

• Phenomenology rediscovers philosophy by describing lived things rather than questioning reality #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 12
• Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience #corroborates (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 54
• Existentialist philosophy values active engaged form over abstract speculation #corroborates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 38