Neither classical art nor Christological incarnation fully embodies spirit for Hegel

Evidence

Recalling Luther, the concept of Entäußerung in Hegel continues to designate the ‘divine sacrifice’. However, he interprets this sacrifice as God’s genuine ‘becoming other’, and this justifies the French translation of this concept by ‘aliénation’. In the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel indicates that the act whereby the Son, ‘having come into the world’, acquiring his determination as ‘Other’ – an act brought to its fulfilment by his death –, is understood as the work of Entäußerung. The Incarnation is ‘the alienation of the divine (Entäußerung des Göttlichen)’, and Death, the ‘alterity of the divine (Anderswerden des Göttlichen)’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 682 (#corroborates, 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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 815; The Incarnation and Christ’s death are Hegel’s model for God’s genuine self-alienation as otherness — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 682

Broader Connections

• The Incarnation and Christ’s death are Hegel’s model for God’s genuine self-alienation as otherness #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 682
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815