Scholars have evaded the origin of representation’s form-giving role in Hegel’s religion

Evidence

Without such an explanation, it is impossible to understand why representation should give its form (that of ‘separate spheres’) to the content of religion. Although theologians and philosophers have interpreted the role of representation in Hegel in a number of different ways, they seem to have evaded the question of its origin and its necessity, the fact that it initially translates a process internal to God Himself into the terms of individual thought. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 817

Categorization

• XREF: Representation as ‘separate spheres’ parallels the figure-ground separation in soundscape theory and the alienation-relapse structure of plasticity. — connects to: Hegel’s representation is a form-giving act, not figurative imaging — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 820