Creation is the moment of particularity in which essence ruptures itself into alterity.

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’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 667

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Posits creation (the Son, second moment) as essence departing from itself — dislocation and rupture rather than mere emanation. This is the ‘critical’ or negative moment in plasticity’s logic.
  • XREF: Rupture/Zerfallen prefigures Malabou’s plasticity as explosion and shaping — the moment of receiving form and giving form through negation. — connects to: Creation is God’s self-dislocation into alterity and rupture — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 667; The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 700; A genuinely created being must tear itself free and assume its own being

Broader Connections