Both Hegel and Heidegger fail to ground negation in a negative being

Evidence

Actually we can put to each of them the same question, phrased slightly differently. We should say to Hegel: “It is not sufficient to posit mind as mediation and the negative; it is necessary to demonstrate negativity as the structure of being of mind. What must mind be in order to be able to constitute itself as negative?” And we can ask the same question of Heidegger in these words: “If negation is the original structure of transcendence, what must be the original structure of ‘human reality’ in order for it to be able to transcend the world?” In both cases we are shown a negating activity and there is no concern to ground this activity upon a negative being. Heidegger in addition makes of Nothingness a sort of intentional correlate of transcendence, without seeing that he has already inserted it into transcendence itself as its original structure. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 216

Categorization

• XREF: Sartre locates his own philosophical task precisely as grounding a negating act in a negative being — the for-itself; central backdrop to Beauvoir’s Ethics. — connects to: Heidegger’s nothingness nihilates itself rather than being a Being; Hegelian negativity belongs to the Greek modality of the non-existent-that-might-be; Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 697 (+5 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The methodological demand here — that an activity must be grounded in a corresponding mode of being — is the archimedean point of Sartre’s whole system.

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s nothingness nihilates itself rather than being a Being #corroborates (0.82)
• Heidegger’s positive descriptions of Dasein mask hidden negations #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 216
• Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 697
• Hegelian negativity belongs to the Greek modality of the non-existent-that-might-be #qualifies (0.75)
• Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack #expands (0.75)
• Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart #expands (0.74)