Heidegger reads Hegel’s silence on the future as time’s essence being past

Evidence

Undoubtedly [Hegel] occasionally speaks about having been, but never about the future. This silence fits with the fact that (for him) the past is itself the decisive character of time, and for a good reason: time is both the passing itself and what passes; it has always passed away. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 79

Categorization

• QUESTION: If time for Hegel is always-already passed, does this mean plasticity for him is retrospective rather than prospective — worth chasing given the reader’s goal of plasticity as the root of brain work.
• XREF: Connects to Derrida’s framing of Hegel here, and to the reader’s interest in how a Hegelian past-oriented time bears on neural plasticity as re-shaping after the fact. — connects to: Hegel remains a thinker of the future against current philosophical suspicion; Heidegger read Hegelian time as a farewell to time — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 108; Hegel’s temporalizing plasticity resists Heidegger’s charge of vulgar time — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1272 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger read Hegelian time as a farewell to time #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 108
• Hegel’s temporalizing plasticity resists Heidegger’s charge of vulgar time #responds-to (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1272