Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of plasticity as ‘excess of the future over the future’ — the book’s foundational concept stated in a single sentence.
• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s brain-plasticity work via Malabou’s later neuroplasticity books; this ‘excess’ formulation grounds that later project. — connects to: Object permanence derives from finite future potentiality, not infinite time — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 606; 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 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228
• Hegel’s temporalizing plasticity resists Heidegger’s charge of vulgar time #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1272
• Hegel ties plasticity directly to the speculative proposition’s form #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1132
• Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity #expands (0.75)