Thought individuates itself the way a genus does, through self-embodiment

Evidence

The logical element is the primal environment of thought, its genre. Genre, like animal genus or race, is also a process of individuation. Thought, like life, possesses the power of determining and embodying itself. Here nature has its moment in the economy of the absolute Idea. The Idea leaves itself behind and is ‘projected into the externality of existence’. This ‘projection’into externality is its test by contingency, the idea’s encounter with absolute alterity and finitude. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 967

Categorization

• XREF: Genre as process of individuation — directly parallel to neuronal plasticity as differentiation within a lineage; bridges to the reader’s brain-science concern. — connects to: Exemplary individuals become free by forming the genus that forms them — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 588; Exemplary individuals so embody the genus they become indistinguishable from gods — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 588
• DEFINE: Defines the logical element as genre — a process of individuation rather than an abstract container.

Broader Connections

• Exemplary individuals become free by forming the genus that forms them #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 588
• Exemplary individuals so embody the genus they become indistinguishable from gods #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 588