Future carries a double sense of both what comes and what deserves to last

Evidence

By ‘future of Hegel’, one must understand first of all the future of his philosophy. ‘Future’ (avenir), in the ordinary sense of the word, means the time to come (futur), what lies ahead. Etymology confirms this connection: the future (l’a-venir) means that which is to come (ad-vient). But it denotes also that which is capable of lasting: to ‘have a future’ is to have the right to posterity. Now, and this is the fundamental problem, does the philosophy of Hegel have legitimate descendants? How can it still hold out a promise? How can it continue to play a leading role in our time, when history has shown it to be an enterprise that brings time to an end? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 185

Categorization

• DEFINE: Malabou unpacks ‘avenir’/‘future’ through the ambiguity between time-to-come (ad-venir) and right to posterity — a doubled concept she will exploit for plasticity.
• XREF: Links to Derrida’s notion of the avenir as the to-come (l’à-venir), and to the book_so_far theme that the future resists any assured return.