Content

Content is the what that is formed — but not as mere matter, but as an already determinate something. In the relation content/form it becomes clear: content and form constitute each other reciprocally. The content demands this form (it is not arbitrarily formable), the form determines what appears as content. Example: the content of a work of art (not = theme, but the developed idea that gives itself this form). In Hegel: the absolute content is the idea that gives itself form. "Content is nothing but the turning-over of form into content, and form nothing but the turning-over of content into form."