Logic’s genre-like structure individuates thought through self-projecting contingency

Evidence

The logical element is the primal environment of thought, its genre. Genre, like animal genus or race, is also a process of individuation. Thought, like life, possesses the power of determining and embodying itself. Here nature has its moment in the economy of the absolute Idea. The Idea leaves itself behind and is ‘projected into the externality of existence’. This ‘projection’into externality is its test by contingency, the idea’s encounter with absolute alterity and finitude. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 967

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Genre-as-individuation and the scientific-genus chain links back to the plasticity-through-biological-genus argument in chapters 29-30 and 72-73 of this same book.

Related

• Thought individuates itself the way a genus does, through self-embodiment (similarity 0.91)
• The logical Idea is the universal mode sublating all particular modes (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s philosophy becomes an event when taken to its speculative limit (similarity 0.78)