Aufhebungn.
/ˈaʊfheɪbʊŋ/, U.S. /ˈaʊfheɪbʊŋ/ Philosophy.
In Hegelian philosophy: the process by which the conflict between two opposed or contrasting things or ideas is resolved by the emergence of a new idea, which both preserves and transcends them; = sublation n. 5. Cf. aufgehoben adj.
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1853 P. Schaff Hist. Apostolic Church Introd. 91 With Hegel, all life and thought is properly development, or a process of organic growth, which he calls Aufhebung.
1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel II. iii. i. 76 Idëel and Moment we can take together, as they both refer to the one process of Aufhebung... I drop this Gold into that Aqua Regia, and it disappears; it is aufgehoben, but it is not destroyed... Sublation, resolution, elimination, &c. will be now intelligible as translations of Aufhebung.
1976 G. C. Spiuak in J. Derrida Of Grammatol. p. xi The Hegelian Aufhebung..is a relationship between two terms where the second at once annuls the first and lifts it up into a higher sphere of existence.
1990 R. Young White Mythol. 66 [Hegel's] Aufhebung shows that in order to achieve that totality it [sc. history] must constantly transcend itself in a movement of excess.
2006 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 40 96 Throughout the Phenomenology recollection is what moves the dialectic ahead and makes Aufhebung possible.
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