The old subject survives as mere for-itself after its substance is dissolved

Evidence

For since the overwhelming objectivity of historical movement in its present phase consists so far only in the dissolution of the subject, without yet giving rise to a new one, individual experience necessarily bases itself on the old subject, now historically condemned, which is still for-itself, but no longer in-itself. The subject still feels sure of its autonomy, but the nullity demonstrated to subjects by the concentration camp is already overtaking the form of subjectivity itself. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the core of Negative Dialectics, and the ‘liquidation of the subject’ thesis of Dialectic of Enlightenment written with Horkheimer. Also connects to Arendt and the banality-of-evil discussion of subjectless modernity. — connects to: Substance becomes subject by self-negating into its own content — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 240; The past is a for-itself that has hardened into an in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 434; Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 374 (+7 more)
• CANDY: The Holocaust as the empirical proof that subjectivity has been evacuated — ‘the nullity demonstrated to subjects by the concentration camp’ is a devastating, quotable one-liner.

Broader Connections

• The past is a for-itself that has hardened into an in-itself #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 434
• Substance becomes subject by self-negating into its own content #qualifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 240
• The past is value reversed, being fixed in-itself as pure gratuitous fact #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 436
• The for-itself is its past yet cannot posit or thematize it #expands (0.82)
• Subjectivity cannot reside in its own being but haunts itself #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 374
• The past remains unthematizable yet inescapable for the for-itself #expands (0.80)
• Man has no substance but is constituted as a disappearing subject of habit #expands (0.80)
• The For-itself retroactively constitutes the past from which it appears born #contradicts (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 479