The System’s authorlessness is what separates sublation from the bad infinite

Evidence

The System lacks an author. … Unless we take into account this automatism, which functions as the condition of auto-determination and auto-momentum, we will never grasp what happens at the stage of Absolute Knowledge. Without this same force of detachment, present everywhere in the Hegelian text and everywhere freeing spirit from its attachment to maintenance, it would be impossible to distinguish the process of the Aufhebung from that of the bad infinite. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1094

Categorization

  • XREF: The ‘System lacks an author’ claim resonates with plasticity as a groundless, self-constituting process — directly bridging to the reader’s brain work. — connects to: Hegelian abrogation is sublation working upon itself to achieve freedom — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1076; A perpetual failed synthesis keeps the in-itself and for-itself inseparable yet independent; Sublation of the propositional form demands explicit expression, not mere content. (+2 more)

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