Meaning is always produced, never original, and reveals its own passivity

Evidence

The process is the same as that of the generation of meaning: meaning is never original but always produced, engendered when its passivity is made manifest. ‘It is because it is’: the necessity of meaning, or necessity as meaning, at the same time sharply reveals meaning’s absolute passivity – its contingency. Conversely, contingency here determines meaning as being a power of eruption, a pure event, imposing itself absolutely and hence of necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1112

Categorization

• DEFINE: Definition of meaning’s genesis: necessity and contingency mutually engender meaning, which is never originary.