Speculative propositions fluidify sedimented ontology into new habits
Evidence
By that double and slanting movement of the incline which ties together the subject and its accidents, a movement which summons the reader to lean from one moment of the history of subjectivity to the other, the speculative proposition brings back to life the sedimented depths of an ontological deployment and, by fluidifying them, releases their energy. In its role as ‘fall’, as ordeal and trial, philosophy sparks off a necessary anamnesis that undoes spirit from its alienated relation to the familiar and well-known, which drives it away from the customs of the doxa, thus involving it in the work of recomposing new habits, new hermeneutical habits. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1267
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the speculative proposition’s operation: a fall that anamnesticizes spirit, dissolving its alienation from the familiar and recomposing new hermeneutical habits.
- XREF: The ‘fall’ as ordeal that recomposes habits connects to Malabou’s plasticity as the change of form that is also a damage — anticipation of her later work on destructive plasticity.
Related
- Philosophy releases sedimented energy by disrupting habitual familiarity (similarity 0.85)
- Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature (similarity 0.79)