Divine plasticity articulates through self-determination, sensuous translation, and representation.
Evidence
From the preceding analyses we can draw certain conclusions that give ‘divine plasticity’ its true meaning and force. The concept of plasticity is articulated in three ways: as process of self-determination, as sensuous translation of the spiritual or hypotyposis, and as one form of the relation consciousness enjoys with the speculative content. In the modern epoch, the subject ‘sees itself coming’ in the form of an ‘other’, and this encounter appears as an alienation (Entäußerung). Further, and in a different context, it is the Incarnation which represents in a modern mode spirit’s translation into the sensuous. Ultimately, the relation between consciousness and the speculative content adopts the form of representation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 899
Categorization
- DEFINE: Malabou’s own three-way articulation of what plasticity means — the conceptual core of the book being read for.
- QUESTION: How does this tripartite plasticity (self-determination, hypotyposis, representation) map onto Malabou’s later neurobiological plasticity work? Could chase after finishing the volume.
- XREF: connects to: Divine plasticity is the new modality of self-determination via self-alienation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 833; Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 649
Broader Connections
- Divine plasticity is the new modality of self-determination via self-alienation
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 833 - Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination.
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649