Philosophy’s self-knowledge is an act of reading, not passive contemplation

Evidence

Judging from the conclusions we have reached so far, the ‘backward look’ which philosophy ‘directs’ onto ‘its own knowledge’ could not be a look of passive contemplation, but rather an act of reading. In lieu of an author, the System necessarily has interpreters. Absolute Knowledge engages thought in the movement of speculative hermeneutics, in modalities unknown and unforeseen. According to Hegel, there is no such thing as an immediate grasping of the absolute, neither, it follows, will there be any such thing as an immediate transparency of meaning. For Absolute Knowledge to come on the scene, it is assumed that the discursive conditions both for its announcement and for its reception must have been produced. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1130

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Establishes speculative hermeneutics as the mode by which Absolute Knowledge is received, contingent on discursive conditions rather than immediate transparency.

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