Dialectical thought inverts Aristotle’s artisanal model of form as starting point

Evidence

For dialectical thought may in this respect be seen as a reversal of the form-dominated, artisanally derived model developed by Aristotle: here form is regarded not as the initial pattern or mold, as that from which we start, but rather as that with which we end up, as but the final articulation of the deeper logic of the content itself. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 672

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s reversal of the artisanal/Handwerk model central to Jameson’s later Postmodernism discussion. — connects to: An initial shocking transcendence is constitutive of all dialectical thinking; The dialectical pun links each formal concept to its originating historical reality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679; The form-content distinction is the central operative mechanism of dialectical thinking — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 670 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The form-content distinction is the central operative mechanism of dialectical thinking #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 670
• Aristotle models thought on sensation, both being acts of receiving form #corroborates (0.75)
• Plasticity inverts the Greek form-creation into the becoming-accidental of essence #corroborates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 859