Imagination mediates being and non-being as the modern unity of opposites

Evidence

Imagination, which in Kant’s famous definition is what permits ‘something to be represented in its absence’, initiates a determinate relation between being and non-being. The entity imagined is neither present nor absent. Transcendental imagination, presupposing the co-implication of being and non-being which governs every determination of presence, is specifically the modern modality of the originary unity of opposites. The concept of ens imaginarium supplies to the modern moment of plasticity that very category of a relative non-being which is its correlative. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ens imaginarium as the category of relative non-being correlative to plasticity’s modern moment.
• XREF: Central to the reader’s core task: tracing plasticity through the imagination’s being/non-being mediation toward the neural account. — connects to: Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 897; Human reality consists of two ekstases, one into being and one into non-being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 261; Being and non-being tempt us to treat them as equal complementary components (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897
• Human reality consists of two ekstases, one into being and one into non-being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 261
• Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429
• Being and non-being tempt us to treat them as equal complementary components #complicates (0.75)