Hegel alone read the death of death as a negation of negation

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The Death of God thereby appears for Hegel as a moment in the divine being in the form of a first negation, logically destined to be reduplicated and reversed: ‘Thus a reversal takes place: … God maintains himself in this process, and the latter is only the death of death (der Tod des Todes).’ The expression ‘mors mortis’ is found many times in Luther’s writings, but the singularity of the Hegelian version is marked in the way he interprets this death of death as a ‘negation of negation’. On the basis of such an interpretation we can already predict the transition from the theological signification of kenosis to its philosophical meaning. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 780

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