The general will shows how abstraction artificially arises from particularity

Evidence

But surely there is no more dramatic instance of the artificial emergence of metaphoric abstraction and of the conceptual universal from the realm of particularity and heterogeneity than the appearance — or rather, for Rousseau, the deconcealment, for it was always the primal act that secured the existence of “society” in the first place — of the general will itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the general will as a macro-lens on the same abstraction dynamic Jameson traces in value and aesthetic style. — connects to: All understanding is necessarily reductive abstraction; Antitheory abandons abstraction, distance, generalization, and futurity — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 363; The actualist State-as-superior-entity theory reduces individuals to abstractions (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: All understanding is necessarily reductive abstraction; Antitheory abandons abstraction, distance, generalization, and futurity — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 363; The actualist State-as-superior-entity theory reduces individuals to abstractions (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation #complicates (0.75)