The concept’s time is the self-externalizing of externalization itself

Evidence

The goal [of this succession] is the revelation of the depth (die Offenbarung der Tiefe) of spirit, and this is the absolute concept. This revelation is, therefore, the raising up (sublation, Aufhebung) of its depth, or its extension (Ausdehnung), the negativity of this withdrawn ‘I’, a negativity which is its externalization of its substance; and this revelation is also the concept’s time, in that this externalization (EntĂ€ußerung) is in its own self externalized (diese EntĂ€ußerung an ihr selbst entĂ€ußert), and just as it is in its extension, so it is equally in its depth, in the self. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 910

Categorization

  • XREF: The double externalization — EntĂ€ußerung an ihr selbst entĂ€ußert — parallels how plasticity names a self-shaping capacity; this is the Hegelian root of Malabou’s plastic-reading project. — connects to: Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on
, 1524; Temporality is the necessary horizon for the for-itself’s transcendence; The speculative concept is a self-moving subject that takes its determinations back into itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,
, 1209 (+3 more)

Broader Connections