Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being

Evidence

Imagination, which in Kant’s famous definition is what permits ‘something to be represented in its absence’, initiates a determinate relation between being and non-being. The entity imagined is neither present nor absent. Transcendental imagination, presupposing the co-implication of being and non-being which governs every determination of presence, is specifically the modern modality of the originary unity of opposites. The concept of ens imaginarium supplies to the modern moment of plasticity that very category of a relative non-being which is its correlative. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines transcendental imagination as the modern modality of the unity of opposites, and ens imaginarium as plasticity’s category of relative non-being.
• XREF: The ‘neither present nor absent’ entity resonates with plasticity as capacity and disposition — a brain that is what it could become. — connects to: Consciousness introduces differentiation, meaning, and plurality into undifferentiated Being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 40; Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 154; Being is necessarily defined against what it is not — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 183 (+13 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The co-implication of being/non-being in imagination as the modern form of originary unity is dense and foundational, not a simple point.

Broader Connections

• Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it #expands (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 152