Preservation requires removing something from its immediate existence
Evidence
Even ‘to preserve’ includes a negative element, namely, that something is removed from its immediacy and so from an existence which is open to external influences, in order to preserve it. Thus what is sublated is at the same time preserved; it has only lost its immediacy but is not on that account annihilated. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1059
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines Aufhebung negatively: preservation through loss of immediacy, not annihilation.
- XREF: connects to: Museumification exterminates what direct worms and decay could not — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 41; Preserving an ethnographic object requires isolating it from all contact — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 26; Restoring artifacts to original sites is more artificial than keeping them transplanted — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 42 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms
#exemplifies(0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865 - A thing must die in becoming its own concept
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1028 - What we preserve today may not be valued by our descendants
#qualifies(0.75) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 46