Enlightenment nihilism is a translation of Protestant religious consciousness, not an escape from it

Evidence

In the Hegelian analysis of Faith and Knowledge, a primary axis is formed by the demonstration that this ‘nihilism’ is in fact a radicalization of ‘the poetry of grief’ of Protestantism and the outcome of its ‘infinite nostalgia’. Critical philosophy, at the very moment when it believed itself definitively emancipated from its relation to theology, emerges in fact as the translation of a certain moment in religious consciousness: T H E D E AT H O F G O D A N D T H E D E AT H O F P H I L O S O P H Y The great form of the world spirit that has come to cognition of itself in these philosophies (of Kant, Jacobi and Fichte), is the principle of the North, and from the religious point of view, of Protestantism. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 796

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

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