Habit-formed man is spirit embodied without need of external referents

Evidence

The man transformed by habit is presented as the soul’s work of art, in so far as his way of being, like that of the statue, displays substance universalized only as an individual figure. Contrary to the logic of immediate ‘signifying’, which implies the illusion of referentiality, incarnate spirit H U M A N S P E C I F I C I T Y A N D P L A S T I C I N D I V I D UA L I T Y assumes an absolute coincidence of ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 585

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that incarnate spirit is ‘independent of any referent’ or contradicts ‘the illusion of referentiality’ is striking — worth tracing how auto-interpretation replaces external anchoring.
• XREF: connects to: Habit is spirit’s reduction of nature into possessable logical determinations — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1052; Humans as habit-forming creatures exemplify spirit’s incarnation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 489; Sculpture models the meeting of habit and ideal in embodied spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 570 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Man’s habit-forming power exemplifies spirit’s incarnation in time. #expands (0.85)
• Habit is a genuine plasticity translating psychic and somatic into one another #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 315
• Habit produces the plastic individual as a unity of soul and body #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 582
• Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form #expands (0.78)
• Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit #contradicts (0.75)
• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man #responds-to (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770