Touch mediates self and Other by uniting what it also keeps distinct
Evidence
In this examination [i.e. in that discrimination which is the act of sensation or feeling], we do not relate ourselves directly to the Other, but mediately. Thus, for example, touch is the mediation between myself and the Other, since though it is distinct from these two sides of the opposition, yet at the same time it unites them… . This linking of the soul with itself is the progress made by the soul, which in waking had divided itself, by its transition to sensation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 351
Categorization
- DEFINE: Exemplifies how alterity is the mediation through which reflexive self-relation is articulated — a core dialectical figure.
- XREF: connects to: An interdependent self keeps members distinct while connected through stable relationships; Thought is self-initiated while sensation requires an external object — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 456; Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- An interdependent self keeps members distinct while connected through stable relationships
#expands(0.85) - Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being
#qualifies(0.75) - Self-blessing sometimes requires an external catalysing gesture of attention
#expands(0.73) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 471 - Thought is self-initiated while sensation requires an external object
#complicates(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 456