Hegel treats space and time through a shared negative synthetic unity.

Evidence

In Hegel’s analysis of the relation between space and time, he shows that the same conception of the synthesis applies. … Space, to the degree that it is a synthesis, is the originary possibility of separation. Much the same is true for time, whose synthetic unity is called by Hegel ‘a negative unity’. The dialectic of ‘Sense Certainty’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit explicitly reveals the difference between the ‘here’ and the ‘now’ understood on the one hand as punctual phenomena, and on the other as that synthesis which represents the ‘now which is many nows’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 262

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the ‘now which is many nows’ — a recurring dialectical figure that echoes the reader’s engagement with time as an organizing structure, both in Hegel and in later French readings. — connects to: Hegelian time is being that is not and not-being that is — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 253; Hegel holds pure being and pure nothingness to be the same; Plastic discourse needs listeners who suspend their own opinions — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1223

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