The concept of the future itself has a history

Evidence

However, the notion of the future has changed in the course of the twentieth century in ways it would be impossible to overlook. If we fail to be aware that the idea of the future has, as it were, a ‘future’, then we would be ourselves guilty of ‘levellingdown’ that very future and, in a sense, lagging behind it. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 205

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: States the reflexive thesis that the future-concept has its own future — the meta-level claim grounding the whole book’s method.

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• Hegel never reconciled the future’s chronological and logical-conceptual senses (similarity 0.87)
• The future, time, and history each have their own history and a shared question. (similarity 0.87)
• The future is understood both as coming time and as lasting posterity (similarity 0.84)
• For Heidegger authentic future is time itself, not a moment of it (similarity 0.83)
• Time’s meaning must be opened out because the future exceeds any single moment. (similarity 0.83)
• A philosophy’s future depends on locating the unforeseen question within it. (similarity 0.82)
• Philosophy’s twilight announces that the future has already passed (similarity 0.82)
• The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. (similarity 0.82)
• The future arises only from putting the past’s rigidified shapes back into play (similarity 0.81)
• Absolute Knowledge is metamorphosis that shapes individuals’ expectations of the future (similarity 0.80)
• Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments (similarity 0.80)
• A future-oriented unconscious drives creation forward into the not-yet-existent (similarity 0.80)
• Denying a philosopher’s concept of the future doubles as denying that philosophy’s own future (similarity 0.80)