God’s identity with transcendental imagination guarantees his future rather than his lack

Evidence

Transcendental imagination is the a priori instance permitting the opening of a pure vision of and in the temporal. From this fact, Hegel, by conceiving the identity of God and transcendental imagination, inscribes time, and not lack, within God. The identification of divine subjectivity with the process of ‘to see (what is) coming’ is the very insurance, or even guarantee, of any future for God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 898

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the earlier ‘voir venir’ reading of God as first speculative figure who sees himself coming — God as transcendental imagination directly extends ch. 101’s speculative self-gaze claim. — connects to: God as transcendental imagination is a temporalizing instance opening an absolute future — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 896