Hegel takes God’s death as the most frightful thought but a necessary philosophical one.

Evidence

It is because God himself is present in the individual human existence of his Son that the Death of Jesus Christ acquires not only a religious but also a philosophical meaning: God has died (Gott ist gestorben), God is dead (Gott ist tot) – this is the most frightful of all thoughts (der fürchterlichste Gedanke), that everything eternal and true is not, that negation itself is found in God. The deepest anguish, the feeling of complete irretrievability, the annulling of everything that is elevated, are bound up with this thought. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 779

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Hegel’s precise formulation ‘Gott ist gestorben / Gott ist tot’ and what ‘negation itself found in God’ means — core vocabulary for the plasticity-through-negation reading.
• XREF: The structure — negation appearing within what is most absolute — maps onto the brain’s capacity to negate/transform its own fixed structures in the plasticity literature. — connects to: Hegel positioned modern God’s-death feeling as a moment of the Idea — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 766; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154; Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (+2 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source

Broader Connections

• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being #expands (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154
• For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development. #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 774
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation #corroborates (0.85)
• Hegel subordinates God to the necessity of the dialectic #complicates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 681