The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself

Evidence

Would we only say farewell to death? Does God ever say farewell or adieu? Does he ever mourn himself? Does he ever mourn himself from himself? And the ‘death of God’, is it a way for God to manifest himself, to incarnate himself, to say himself, to name himself in saying to himself Adieu, adieu to God? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 148

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chain of questions ends open - whether God can mourn himself from himself is worth chasing through Hegel’s self-determination of spirit.
• BMF: This resonates obliquely with Vidal Gore’s Eighteen Seventy, where the passing of old order and theistic certainties is mourned through farewell gestures and historical rupture.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Icon worshipers unknowingly enacted God’s death through representation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 15; Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 156; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154
• For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development. #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 774
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation #corroborates (0.85)
• Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 156
• Death converts the for-itself into an in-itself that only others can interpret #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1259
• God is both the subject doing the exposition and the subject being constituted #expands (0.80)
• At death a life becomes an in-itself whose meaning only others sustain. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 63
• Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 153
• The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain. #expands (0.75)