Hegel inserts time rather than lack into divine subjectivity.

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: The ‘identity of God and transcendental imagination’ and ‘inscribes time, not lack, within God’ resonates against Heidegger’s ontotheology critique and Marion/Lacanian accounts of God as lack. — connects to: For Hegel time itself becomes rather than merely containing becoming. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 257; Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit deploys time where it claims time is absent; Hegel reversed his own earlier view that humanity in God is a blemish (+1 more)
  • DEEPTHINKING: The move of inscribing temporality rather than privation into God as a guarantee of divine futurity is dense enough to sit with.

Broader Connections