The dialectical process may itself generate a bad infinity rather than a true endpoint

Evidence

However, if we take this tack, it would only lead to a second question, of central importance to any reader of Hegel: Isn’t a bad infinite the outcome of the process of dialectical sublation? Isn’t the Aufhebung subject to an incessant activity that cancels itself at every instant it posits itself? If it is true that Absolute Knowledge does necessarily mark a stopping point in the speculative development, why couldn’t this pause be the unjustifiable but real result of a forceful intervention? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 999

Categorization

• QUESTION: This poses the central interpretive puzzle Malabou will resolve: whether the Aufhebung’s self-cancelling activity can ground closure without force.
• DEEPTHINKING: The question of whether the dialectic structurally produces false infinity rather than sublation is a dense, paradigm-questioning point at the heart of the plasticity reading.
• XREF: connects to: Dialectical sublation may itself generate endless self-cancelling bad infinity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 999; Circularity fails as an answer to the dialectic’s relapsing into false infinity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1001; Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1122

Broader Connections

• Dialectical sublation may itself generate endless self-cancelling bad infinity #expands (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 999
• Circularity fails as an answer to the dialectic’s relapsing into false infinity #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1001
• Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1122