The death of God’s deepest form is God bidding farewell to himself.

Evidence

At this junction point of the book, an immense debate rearticulates itself, with such precision, such finesse, such economy, on what I here propose to name or surname, since the word does not figure, if I remember correctly, the farewell, a certain farewell to God, and the farewell of God to or unto God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 150

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Derrida coins ‘the farewell’ as the book’s unnamed operative figure — a scene of passage rather than a named concept.
• XREF: Directly continues ch19’s claim that ‘the death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself’ — same content, now paid off through Derrida’s own reading.

Related

• The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself (similarity 0.84)
• Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God (similarity 0.81)
• The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain. (similarity 0.80)
• Speculative idealism is a superhuman effort to think what farewell means. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegel takes God’s death as the most frightful thought but a necessary philosophical one. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (similarity 0.78)