Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination.
Evidence
This process confers a specifically modern character on substance-subject’s movement of ‘seeing (what is) coming’. In virtue of the three determinations of plasticity, the modern moment (1) presupposes a certain form (self-consciousness in its relation to speculative content); (2) corresponds to a particular notion of self-determination (the subject in relation to its accidents); and (3) determines a certain modality of hypotyposis, i.e. the translation of the spiritual into sensuous form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649
Categorization
- DEFINE: Spells out the three determinations of plasticity — presupposition of form, self-determination, and hypotyposis (translation of spiritual into sensuous form) — a precise scaffold for the plasticity concept.
- XREF: connects to: Plasticity and habit define man’s place between animal and divine limits — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 317; Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 64; Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 64 - Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form
#expands(0.80) - Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity
#expands(0.78) - Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema
#expands(0.75) - Plasticity requires the dissolution of the thinking subject rather than its ratiocinative control
#complicates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1249 - Plasticity spans a graded range from determination to freedom
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 67 - Plastic individuality mediates between sculptural and philosophical plasticity.
#expands(0.72) - Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self
#corroborates(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163