God’s self-emptying is a founding and not merely a diminishment for Hegel

Evidence

In the modern moment, the slope of the subject corresponds to the sending of the Son, an inclination which is also the inclination of the Father towards the Son. Through his act of falling – the descending movement – God shows himself to himself and completes thereby the movement of his proposition. He proceeds and results from this slope, and is not God except through its foundation. Hegel gives the ‘ex’ of ‘ecstasy’ all the dynamic meaning it possesses, making kenosis truly appear as a movement of departure and abasement of the Self in its fall. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1258

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that Hegel redefines kenosis/ecstasy as a movement of departure, not a loss.
• XREF: connects to: Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 153; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154; Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegel makes being-for-others a necessary condition of being-for-itself #corroborates (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 686
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815
• God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 663