Luther’s rendering of kenosis as Entäußerung seeded the Hegelian dialectic

Evidence

By translating kenosis by Entäußerung (‘the separation of the Self through an externalization’), Luther designates a sort of exit outside one’s self in one’s self, a farewell to one’s self, an abandonment of one’s self. A taking leave of one’s self in one’s self. And most of all he opens the way for a tradition in which the Hegelian dialectic inscribes itself (originary division of judgement, alienation, exteriorization, exit of God outside of himself: Entzweiung, Entfremdung, Entäußerung) and out of which the great modern discourse on the ‘death of God’ would lose its meaning and its memory. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 151

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines kenosis via Luther’s Entäußerung translation and lists the exact German dialectical terms seeded by it.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s grounding in Continental philosophy — this etymology of self-externalization is the technical root of plasticity/self-othering. — connects to: Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 697; Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations; Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 153 (+1 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 697
• Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations #expands (0.72)