Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

God is this: not merely to be in himself, but to be just as essentially for himself. That God is spirit consists in this: that he is not only the essence that maintains itself in thought but also the essence that appears, the essence that endows itself with revelation and objectivity (Gegenständlichkeit). Although we consider the idea of God this way in the philosophy of religion, we at the same time also have before us the mode of God’s representation. God represents only himself and does so only to himself (er stellt sich nur vor und stellt sich selber vor sich). This is the aspect of the being-there (Dasein) of the absolute. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• 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; The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 148; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154 (+15 more)

Related

• God’s self-emptying is a founding and not merely a diminishment for Hegel (similarity 0.94)
• For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development. (similarity 0.92)
• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being (similarity 0.92)
• Hegel was the first to philosophize the Death of God as God’s self-negation (similarity 0.90)
• Hegel takes God’s death as the most frightful thought but a necessary philosophical one. (similarity 0.90)
• The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself (similarity 0.90)
• Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack (similarity 0.90)
• Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead (similarity 0.88)
• Hegel positioned modern God’s-death feeling as a moment of the Idea (similarity 0.88)
• Hegel inscribes time, not lack, within God by identifying God with transcendental imagination (similarity 0.88)
• God’s death is the thought that negation strikes the eternal itself. (similarity 0.88)
• The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain. (similarity 0.87)
• The Death of God is a moment in substance’s becoming-subject (similarity 0.87)
• The theology of God’s death transferred into philosophy’s absolutizing of finitude. (similarity 0.87)
• Hegel alone read the death of death as a negation of negation (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• God’s self-emptying is a founding and not merely a diminishment for Hegel #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1258
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815