Plasticity names the double capacity to receive and produce form

Evidence

In each case that double connotation of the adjective ‘plastic’ reappears: a capacity to receive form and a capacity to produce form. It is this double signification which enables us to treat the adjective as itself a ‘speculative word’, in Hegel’s special sense. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228

Categorization

• DEFINE: Nails the core definition of plasticity as speculative: receptivity and productive agency in one word — exactly the structure the reading purpose is probing.
• XREF: connects to: Plasticity is not the same as polymorphous flexibility — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 225; Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1310