Hegel’s system resists cherry-picking because part and whole are inseparable

Evidence

Just as the Beethoven sonata stood as the precarious synthesis of whole and part, so the philosophy of Hegel is one long tension between the organization of the overall dialectic, with Absolute Spirit as the end result of the process, and the individual moments, the steps of the dialectic, the concrete analyses of the various kinds of experience along the way. The two components depend on each other and cannot be considered separately: a satisfactory reading of Hegel’s thought at any point resembles in structure the listening demanded by the Beethoven sonata, where the part, the note or phrase, must be apprehended both in itself and in its position with respect to the whole, as variation, modulation, reprise, and so forth. It is therefore impossible to select individual insights from the system, to separate the valid from the no longer relevant. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 106

Categorization

• XREF: The Beethoven-sonata comparison for the whole/part dialectic is a striking model of hermeneutic totality — connects to how Jameson elsewhere (and Adorno before him) uses musical form to explain philosophical structure. — connects to: Hegelian predication expresses mutual implication rather than attachment of one thing to another — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1171; Hegel’s System is immanently temporalized through its own double perspective — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 272; Hegel alone achieved consciousness of contradictions within a single system (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegelian predication expresses mutual implication rather than attachment of one thing to another #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1171
• Content’s determinateness is self-given, not externally attached, in Hegel #corroborates (0.88)
• Hegel makes being-for-others a necessary condition of being-for-itself #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 686
• Hegel alone achieved consciousness of contradictions within a single system #expands (0.80)
• Hegel’s System is immanently temporalized through its own double perspective #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 272