Hegelian selfhood is constituted as appropriation and seizure of the other

Evidence

If God can be delegated in such a way, this will necessarily imply that divine presence can be linked to acquisition; indeed the self in Hegel is constituted by just such a seizure in so far as it understands itself as including the other, as appropriating and grasping the other. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 735

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Hegelian self’s core movement as grasping/appropriating the other — a needed contrast against which plasticity’s distinct economy can be read.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel frames self-transformation into second nature as man’s defining attribute; Hegel makes being-for-others a necessary condition of being-for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 686

Broader Connections

• Hegel makes being-for-others a necessary condition of being-for-itself #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 686