Sublation

Aufheben, Hegel's untranslatable verb for how one stage gives way to the next, means canceling something while also keeping it and raising it onto a higher plane.

Put simply Hegel's German verb "aufheben" has no English equivalent. It describes how one stage gives way to the next: the old is canceled, but also kept, and lifted to a higher level.

A line in Zamyatin's dystopia We runs "We comes from God, I comes from the devil": the I is to be overcome and swallowed by the collective.

On Shore's admittedly simplified schema, modernism answers modernity's uncertainty in two waves: a Freudian plunge into the self, then an avant-garde that vaults past it, almost a Hegelian Aufheben.

Put simply Shore, simplifying on purpose: modern art answered the age's uncertainty in two waves. First a Freud-like dive into the inner self, then an avant-garde leap past the self, almost a Hegelian "Aufheben": overcoming something while carrying it forward.

For Kojève, being human means negating the given, in Hegel's sense of overcoming: its concrete features still mark us, but we are no longer its captives.

Put simply Kojève: to be human is to "negate" what is given to us, in Hegel's sense of overcoming it. Its concrete features still mark us, but we are no longer trapped by them.