Contingency emerges from necessity’s own violence and becomes its power
Evidence
Contingent being is that which can be other than it is. Those determinations appearing as ‘indifferent, self-external substances’ are contingent. Now that ‘violence (Gewalt)’ through which contingency arises even out of the heart of necessity ensures in the same move that contingency has its own and full autonomy. To the degree that it is the origin of violence, contingency acquires the status of a cause, and becomes the power of necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1109
At this point what can we say about contingency? Contingent being is that which can be other than it is. Those determinations appearing as ‘indifferent, self-external substances’ are contingent. Now that ‘violence (Gewalt)’ through which contingency arises even out of the heart of necessity ensures in the same move that contingency has its own and full autonomy. To the degree that it is the origin of violence, contingency acquires the status of a cause, and becomes the power of necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1109
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines contingency positively as violence-origin within necessity, overturning the usual privative reading of contingency.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing how Gewalt (violence) is the generative medium through which necessity and contingency exchange positions.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1109
- XREF: connects to: The cogito’s self-apprehension is first a grasp of its own contingency.; Freedom from contingency requires a deliberate common project of becoming. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2019; The essence of necessity is contingency, grounded in an event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 128 (+2 more)