Divine kenosis and reason’s inaccessible beyond are one and the same event

Evidence

The suffering of God and the suffering of human subjectivity deprived of God must be analysed as the recto and verso of the same event. There is a fundamental relationship between divine kenosis and the tendency of modern reason to posit a beyond which remains inaccessible. The Encyclopedia makes this relation visible by presenting the Death of God at once as the Passion of the Son who ‘dies in the pain of negativity’ and the human feeling that we can know nothing of God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the plasticity of the subject: self-emptying as a positive formative movement, not mere lack — the core bridge to Malabou’s brain-as-plastic-self argument elsewhere. — connects to: Kafka’s opaque divine is the concept of the Other pushed to the limit — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 738; God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form; Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Divine alienation is a temporalization, not a sign of incompleteness #expands (0.85)
• God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form #expands (0.82)
• Modern subjectivity’s emptiness extends the divine self-emptying of kenosis. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 807
• Events and constancies are mutually exclusive yet mutually defining #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 117