Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form

Evidence

To form the concept of plasticity as it figures in Hegel’s philosophy requires first of all that we uncover the way in which Hegel himself constructs this idea. When we take this further, we find that three areas of meaning are mutually implicated. In each case that double connotation of the adjective ‘plastic’ reappears: a capacity to receive form and a capacity to produce form. It is this double signification which enables us to treat the adjective as itself a ‘speculative word’, in Hegel’s special sense. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of the double signification — receiving and producing form — that defines the speculative plasticity at the heart of the book.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: The schema is the plastic form mediating giving and receiving — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 210; Plasticity means receiving form while resisting deformation, and extends to tissue regrowth — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 226 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form #corroborates (0.90)
• The intellect’s capacity to receive and give form originates its plasticity #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 401
• Hegel ties plasticity directly to the speculative proposition’s form #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1132
• Hegel grounds plasticity in νς’s power to self-differentiate while remaining unmixed #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 466
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 109