Speculative abrogation is the Aufhebung’s self-sublation that frees from attachment

Evidence

In the sequence of the syllogism, self-certainty (‘self-knowing reason’) occupies the mediating position between subjectivity and objectivity. Consequently, in the realm of subjectivity, the ‘I think’, or cogito, loses its place as the point of origin, a position normally allotted to it; instead it is simply one term of a larger order. The ‘self’, therefore, is a form of subjectivity that transcends and goes beyond the ‘I’. … Given that ‘abrogation’ (dessaisissement) suggests renunciation and dispossession, or, in legal language, the action whereby one gives up one’s property to another, this seems at first to present a term opposite in meaning to ‘sublation’, that movement which apparently gives up nothing and lets nothing escape. … However, contrary to what one would initially imagine, these two processes of sublation and abrogation are completely interdependent. Considering the last moment of absolute spirit (Philosophy), one readily notes the synonymy between the verbs aufheben3 and befreien (‘ to liberate’), as well as ablegen (‘to discard’, ‘to remove’, ‘to take away’). Speculative abrogation, in no way alien to the process of the Aufhebung, is indeed its fulfilment. Abrogation is a sublation of sublation (relève de la relève), the result of the Aufhebung’s work on itself and, as such, its transformation. The movement of suppression and preservation produces this transformation at a certain moment in history, the moment of Absolute Knowledge. Speculative abrogation is the absolute sublation, if by ‘absolute’ we mean a relief or sublation (relève) that frees from a certain type of attachment. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1076

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines speculative abrogation (dessaisissement) as the Aufhebung working on itself — a sublation of sublation that frees from attachment.
• XREF: Connects to earlier chapters on aufheben’s own history and the stopping/self-simplification of Absolute Knowledge (ch114-115). — connects to: Aufhebung operates as speculative mourning over spectral past shapes — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1013; Abrogation is sublation detached from the masterful subject-object relation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1092