Hegel’s human expression is a dialectically liberated economy of signification, not a direct emanation.
Evidence
If we avoid a hasty reading of the human relation to its habitus, then a patient reflection on the material will reveal that human expression does not reduce to a pre-constituted expressed. The economy of signification that appears at the end of the Anthropology has been dialectically liberated from the initial and natural economy of the sign which originally governs man. In the transition from one economy to the other, in a passage which involves the formation of our ‘plastic individuality’, it becomes possible to encounter the real role of language. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 546
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Distinguishes the ‘natural economy of the sign’ from the dialectically liberated ‘economy of signification’ reached at the Anthropology’s end.
- XREF: Two economies of signification recalls the plasticity’s ‘economy’ resonances with Marx/economic language elsewhere in the corpus.
Related
- Human expression liberates signification from its original natural economy (similarity 0.91)
- Human language expresses spirit only through dialectical work, not direct emanation (similarity 0.89)
- Language is spirit’s perfect expression while the human figure is only its first appearance (similarity 0.86)
- Language marks the transition from animal to human for Hegel. (similarity 0.83)