God’s self-alienation paradoxically offers no genuine outside to escape into

Evidence

Second, this God who does not promise is not anticipated. The believer is led to renounce all hope of his coming. The alienation through which God dispossesses himself of his ‘determination as immediate nature’ seems to confront him with the paradox of an escape from the self without any outside. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 753

Categorization

• QUESTION: This ‘escape from the self without any outside’ seems kin to the plasticity paradox — where difference is internal rather than external.
• XREF: connects to: A God who fully reveals himself can never give himself as a gift.; God’s alienation and philosophical reason’s negativity are the same movement — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 756