Hegel replaces teleological act-potentiality appearing with linear sensory sequence

Evidence

From this point on, the play of appearing and disappearing is not guided teleologically by the move between act and potentiality. Instead it follows the linear movement of presence from sequence to sequence. It is as if an alternating current changing from one sensory moment to another has replaced the mode of appearing controlled by the different intensities of light frequencies. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 877

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: this seems to de-teleologize Hegel’s phenomenality — how does that square with the teleological reading of Spirit?
  • XREF: connects to: In absorbed action teleological order reverses causal order — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 724; Hegelian appearance is always being-for-another in dual temporal and supersensible senses — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 878; Plasticity, not Heidegger’s account, best captures Hegelian temporality — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 2 (+7 more)

Broader Connections