Habit entails spirit’s self-sacrifice into lifeless determinate form

Evidence

Putting this mechanism into place elicits from spirit an alienation we could call sacrificial. Just as spirit reduces the distance from itself to itself with the help of habit, spirit is also shedding its own self. The effect of simplification is to transform the speculative narrative into ‘a row of closed and labelled boxes in a grocer’s stall’. Spirit submits to its self-sacrifice and is transformed into a lifeless, skeletal thing, a thing ‘without flesh and blood’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1053

Categorization

• XREF: The grocer’s-stall image and the flesh/blood reduction echo the alienation motif running through Malabou’s treatment of plasticity as both giving and withholding form. — connects to: Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 489; Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1052; Habit’s simplification costs spirit a sacrificial alienation of itself. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit’s simplification costs spirit a sacrificial alienation of itself. #expands (0.90)
• Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1052
• Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 489
• The soul’s perfection as spirit is also man’s own exhaustion and death #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 606