Plasticity constitutes the unforeseen future within and of Hegel’s philosophy

Evidence

By ‘plasticity’ we mean first of all the excess of the future over the future; while ‘temporality’, as it figures in speculative philosophy, will mean the excess of time over time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210 (#expands, via linked claim)

Hegel places face to face the two epochs which constitute the history of subjectivity. On one side, the epoch marked by the repetitions and habits inherent to the teleological process. On the other, the epoch dominated by the singular ‘once and only’, by the non-habitual, inseparable from the concept of time as external. This confrontation also presents the outline of the future which, henceforth, exists in the play of the habitual and the unusual, but no longer to be understood as two eras of philosophical thought, rather as the two faces, identical in a speculative sense, of one reality: completion. Hegel’s philosophy announces that the future, from now on, depends on the way the shapes and figures already present can be put back into play, on the way the extraordinary and unexpected can only arise out of the prose of the well-known and familiar. Plasticity fulfils its promise for the future with its treatment of a past that has become rigid: if it plasticizes that past – by solidifying or laminating it – it also explodes that past, through what the French call plasticage or bombing. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegel remains a thinker of the future against current philosophical suspicion; Plasticity, not Heidegger’s account, best captures Hegelian temporality — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 2; Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 210 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself #expands (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210
• Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268