Modern philosophy’s subject-concept structurally depends on divine self-sacrifice

Evidence

By analysing the Death of God in its two meanings, religious and philosophical, it becomes clear that both aspects, divine kenosis and the kenosis of the transcendental subject, are mutually informing and constructing. Indeed, the divine sacrifice finds its ultimate conceptual expression in the Aufklärung’s philosophical categories. Reciprocally, modern philosophy would not have its own subject if God’s sacrifice had not occurred. The exposé of such a structural solidarity between the speculative content of Revealed Religion and the philosophical categories apparently excluded from such a content represents an aspect of Hegel’s thought at its most original and most difficult. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 809