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Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an infinite avarice, eager to comprehend and consume everything within the simple and pure I.

Subjectivity (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠prove everything recognized as right or duty worthless, limited and relative — but having dissolved all content, it must develop it again out of itself.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠spirit withdrawn out of the external world into an existence within — and so no longer coinciding in indissoluble unity with its body.

Subjectivity (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠objectivity, held fast in abstraction, slip through one's fingers, until one says precisely the opposite of what one meant.

Subjectivity (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠clings to itself and disdains the substantial falls, beyond the emptiness of its fancies, into malice, envy, spite, pride and every perversity of empty finitude.

Subjectivity (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its inmost is bound to no fixed content and rests on itself in untrammelled freedom — which is why music must finally slip free of every text.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the incorporation of more and more of the world through the resolving and reconciling of ever higher-level contradictions.

Subjectivity (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two senses in Hegel: the cosmic subject that posits its own embodiment, and the merely subjective, less than the real, which is what thought is until it reaches necessity.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no empty framework waiting to be filled from outside; being dialectical, it breaks through its own barrier and opens itself up into objectivity.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at once the most complex unity and the most simple, because in self-consciousness the mutual exteriority of parts is wholly overcome and all is transparent.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an achievement constantly in need of further achievement. It is the nature of all organic being to fight against internal contradiction and to realize its subjectivity in the world through processes such as hunger and satiation.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an achieved agency, a victory over the forces of entropy and undifferentiated chaos. It is the urge by which an animal, lacking wholeness, feels to preserve itself by resolving the internal contradictions it encounters (i.e. Hunger at the most basic level).