Hegel’s letting-go verbs make the absolute both liberation and absolution
Evidence
The verbs ablassen and weglassen, meaning at the same time ‘to empty’, ‘to send off’, ‘to let go’, ‘to let be’, help to confirm this dynamic meaning of the absolute as at once a liberation and an absolution. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1092
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Hegel’s lexicon contains a motif of letting-go opposite to sublation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1075; Hegelian abrogation verbs simultaneously mean abandoning and preserving — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1091; Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1076 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Hegelian abrogation verbs simultaneously mean abandoning and preserving
#expands(0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1091 - Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom
#corroborates(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1076 - Hegel dissolves subject-object dualism by starting before the separation occurs
#corroborates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 102 - Hegel solved modernity’s self-justification problem too completely through Absolute reason
#qualifies(0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 264 - Heideggerian letting-be requires active attention, not passive indifference
#complicates(0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 588 - Hegel’s aufheben conflates accepting and rejecting the given, hiding real revolt
#contradicts(0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 87