Hegel dissolves subject-object dualism by starting before the separation occurs

Evidence

Hegel is able to overcome the separation between subject and object by finding his starting point in a moment when that separation has not yet taken place: in the moment of experience itself, where the subject, still at one with its object, has not yet attained self-consciousness, has not yet learned to distinguish itself as a separate and abstractly independent entity, has not yet been able to draw back and look across a void toward the separate, equally abstract entity of things in themselves. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 102

Categorization

  • XREF: The ‘two views’ of the Phenomenology—objective demonstrations of identity and subjective ascent to Absolute Spirit—feeds directly into how Jameson and Adorno read totality and reification. — connects to: The dialectical principle of subject-object reconciliation is Hegel’s invention — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 101; Subject and object letting-go of fixed positions liberates previously imprisoned philosophical energy; The end of the subject-object gap reveals a more originary mode of becoming — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,
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  • DEFINE: Explains the foundational move of Hegel’s dialectic as starting from pre-separated experience rather than positing dualism.

Broader Connections