Speculative simplification reduces the very faculties it originally made possible

Evidence

In the course of the Phenomenology of Spirit these faculties are recorded in their progressive deployment, in their work of abstracting their content, aiming always towards the abbreviated form. Yet in this process, the faculties find themselves ‘reduced’ by the very orientation of their project. The System lacks an author. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1093

Categorization

• DEFINE: The System lacking an author is a striking reversal of the usual image of Hegel’s absolute idealism as an authorial totalitarian System — relevant to Malabou’s whole plasticity thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Simplification makes determinations both more and less universal, mourning what it suppresses — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1058; Simplification is the essence and aim of speculative teleology.

Broader Connections

• Simplification makes determinations both more and less universal, mourning what it suppresses #qualifies (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1058
• Simplification is the essence and aim of speculative teleology. #contradicts (0.78)