Habit’s virtuality marks the shift from Greek to modern subjectivity

Evidence

Under the guise of ‘possession’ (ις), subjectivity embraces in itself its future ways of being, the ways it will become actual. But ις as something virtual inscribes in substance the moment where the virtual will cease to have an ontological signification. This realization is essential in forming the transition from the Greek conception of subjectivity to the modern, and it is this conception which we must now bring to light. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 613

Categorization

• XREF: The virtual becoming actual then exhausted parallels modern plasticity accounts of how capacity hardens into fixed structure — bridges directly to the reader’s brain work. — connects to: Habit is the hinge connecting Greek substance-subject, self-feeling, and soul as work of art — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 304; Habitus theory explains ethnicity’s persistence and flexibility through embodiment, agency, and collective-individual interplay — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 937; Habit etymologically converts having into a way of being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 384 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit etymologically converts having into a way of being #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 384
• Habitus theory explains ethnicity’s persistence and flexibility through embodiment, agency, and collective-individual interplay #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 937
• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences #expands (0.78)
• Habit converts learned subjection into free action #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 404
• Heidegger’s privileged future ecstasy covertly reinstates a figure of subjectivity #responds-to (0.72)