Sacrifice in Hegel severs reason from recognizing itself in what it produces

Evidence

A sacrifice which means that reason will not be able to recognize itself in its own productions: … Theoretical reason … makes no claim to an autonomous dignity, no claim to beget the Son out of itself. We must leave it to its own emptiness and the unworthiness that comes from its being able to put up with this dualism of a pure unity of reason and a manifold of the intellect, and from its not feeling any need for the middle and for immanent cognition (nach immanenter Erkenntnis zu sein). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1402

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘sacrifice’ means in Hegel’s economy of reason — a self-emptying rather than a lost object.
• 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; Hegel’s simplification is an act of self-abbreviation, a cutting that reduces. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1017