Creation is God’s self-dislocation into alterity and rupture

Evidence

Divine subjectivity now immerses itself in its critical moment, knowing the rupture of the judgement as it becomes particular: ‘in the moment of particularity, of the judgement, the eternal concrete being is presupposed, and its movement is the creation of the phenomenal world.’ The actual creation (Erschaffung) of the phenomenal world posits that world in its alterity. Essence departs from itself, in a movement of dislocation that goes as far as ‘shattering, the rupture (Zerfallen) of the eternal moment of mediation’. This is the moment of the Son, the conclusion of the first syllogism. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 667

Categorization

• XREF: The idea of creation as self-dislocation and rupture resonates with Malabou’s overall plasticity thesis: being determined by being wounded/altered. Also connects to how the reader thinks of the brain undergoing disruption to reorganize. — connects to: Creation cannot be halted or grasped as a static object.; All human projects aim at becoming God through self-causation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1445; God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866 (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that God’s creation is a self-shattering of mediation — essence as self-loss into alterity — is a dense, paradigm-shifting rereading of creation that resists summary.

Broader Connections

• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700
• God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form #expands (0.82)
• God is both the subject doing the exposition and the subject being constituted #corroborates (0.80)
• God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 663
• A genuinely created being must tear itself free and assume its own being #qualifies (0.78)