The future arises only from reanimating the familiar and habitual

Evidence

Hegel places face to face the two epochs which constitute the history of subjectivity. On one side, the epoch marked by the repetitions and habits inherent to the teleological process. On the other, the epoch dominated by the singular ‘once and only’, by the non-habitual, inseparable from the concept of time as external. This confrontation also presents the outline of the future which, henceforth, exists in the play of the habitual and the unusual, but no longer to be understood as two eras of philosophical thought, rather as the two faces, identical in a speculative sense, of one reality: completion. Hegel’s philosophy announces that the future, from now on, depends on the way the shapes and figures already present can be put back into play, on the way the extraordinary and unexpected can only arise out of the prose of the well-known and familiar. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Collapses the habitual/teleological and non-habitual/time-as-external into two speculative faces of one completion — the whole book’s answer folded into a single dense claim about where the future must come from.
• XREF: connects to: Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1268; Habit eventually kills because activity only persists through not-yet-achieved aims — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 609; The future arises only from putting the past’s rigidified shapes back into play — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1268