Hegel’s lexicon contains a motif of letting-go opposite to sublation

Evidence

Indeed, if we look at Hegel’s philosophical lexicon, there are many words that designate such a ‘self-release’. Thus we can thematize in Hegel’s work a motif of speculative abrogation or letting-go (dessaisissement). Given that ‘abrogation’ (dessaisissement) suggests renunciation and dispossession, or, in legal language, the action whereby one gives up one’s property to another, this seems at first to present a term opposite in meaning to ‘sublation’, that movement which apparently gives up nothing and lets nothing escape. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1075

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces dessaisissement, the speculative abrogation opposite in appearance to the Aufhebung.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel’s letting-go verbs make the absolute both liberation and absolution — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1092; 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

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s letting-go verbs make the absolute both liberation and absolution #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1092
• Hegelian abrogation verbs simultaneously mean abandoning and preserving #qualifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1091
• Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1076