The farewell and the promise of return are indistinguishable for absolute knowledge

Evidence

Taken, given or received, this leave of time to time, is it a farewell or a ‘good-bye, until we meet again’? A farewell since they leave themselves (infinitely), but a ‘goodbye, until we meet again’ since they will return to themselves and already see themselves return. But who can ever distinguish between a farewell and a goodbye, until we meet again? No more than a promise, this distinction will never be appropriable by some knowledge, and especially not by an absolute knowledge and all of its criteria. Always and forever, ‘farewell’ and ‘goodbye, until we meet again’ will continue to haunt each other. One will always remain the ghost of the other, the spectre itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 167

Categorization

• XREF: Derrida’s hauntology and the spectre motif resonate with the reader’s work on plasticity as a temporal structure — the ghost of the other recalls Hegelian sublation’s own internal division. — connects to: A genuine farewell to the other requires renouncing all assurance of return and redemption — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 121; Absolute Knowledge is knowledge of its own limit, not closed totality

Broader Connections

• Absolute Knowledge is knowledge of its own limit, not closed totality #expands (0.82)