One epoch can superimpose upon another only because substance self-differentiates in time

Evidence

The two issues become one. Either Hegel has let himself ‘be carried away’ by his desire for ‘systematization’, and the projection of a dogmatic and anachronistic ‘idealist’ conception of subjectivity onto a philosophy totally uninterested in the concepts of the ‘substance-subject’ and ‘autodetermination’ is grounded on an uncritical presupposition. Or his interpretation of Aristotle’s text is grounded on an even more elaborate position, no less than the foundational principle of Hegel’s philosophical system: viz., the idea of subjectivity as support of its own ontological history, that is, of its own temporal self-differentiation. If we follow the argument suggested by Hegel’s principle, the possibility of one epoch’s ‘superimposition’ on another epoch’s way of thinking, far from being the result of a parti pris alien to thinking itself, is on the contrary inscribed within substance’s very way of being. If this were not the case, Hegel believes, it would be impossible to understand how subjectivity, while remaining as it is, continues all the time to change its meaning, this being the evolution responsible for the very idea of a history of philosophy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 473

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that substance is ‘support of its own ontological history’ and ‘temporal self-differentiation’ connects directly to Malabou’s later plasticity work applied to the brain — the same logic by which a structure changes meaning while remaining itself. — connects to: Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 254; Substance can carry its own future interpretations as latent possibility — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 474
• DEFINE: Defines self-differentiation/subjectivity as the foundation of Hegel’s reading of Aristotle — the principle that reconciles historical superimposition without anachronism.

Broader Connections

• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254
• Substance can carry its own future interpretations as latent possibility #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 474