to sublate
- verb
- /səˈbleɪt/
- Formal
:
sublimar
- Rather, we learn to understand ourselves in and through it, and this means that we sublate the discontinuity and atomism of isolated experiences in the continuity of our own existence.
Examples
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After all, as Ruiz Baia shows, various Latin American identities are sometimes "sublated," as Hegel would say, both included and subsumed under a Hispanic Catholic identity.
Academic text (1999) -
In his theory, Hegel argues that contradictions are sublated to form a higher understanding.
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So it sublates itself, it cancels itself out.
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One might say the theological sublates the political.
Academic text (2005) -
I say "finally" not to imply a Hegelian end to history attained through post-modern relativizations, but to suggest that the problematics of regionality have, by that stage, been sublated or resolved, and cultural work can move on to other things.
Academic text (1993) -
Because the achievements of this body of criticism and theory have been so considerable, they now allow us to go beyond it, not to dispute its relevance to the films that chiefly motivated it, nor to question the historical necessity of its formulation, but rather to sublate it, to recontain it as one vector in a more historically and socially comprehensive analysis dominated by contrary movements.
Academic text (1999) -
The artist sublates traditional techniques into her modern works, creating a unique blend of styles.
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By reconciling different viewpoints, the discussion sublated previous conflicts and fostered a new consensus.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sublate comes from Latin parts sub- ('up' or 'from under') and latus ('carried' or 'lifted'), the same lat root you see in elated ('very happy' or 'lifted up'). In Hegelian philosophy, to sublate an idea is to lift it into a higher form while also cancelling its old form, so it means to 'cancel and preserve' at the same time.
