Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God

Evidence

The farewell to this renunciation, to the death of God, would only be the first moment of the negation, a first negation which must double itself and return in itself as a farewell to this farewell, that is to say as a death of death itself (mors mortis, Luther’s expression which seems to me, more literally than any other, since it concerns the very death of God, to justify the syntagm of this farewell to farewell, of this farewell to the farewell to God, etc.). Inasmuch as we must pass through the death of God and by the name of God in order to think the negation of the negation, the speculative idealism would also represent a gigantic effort, in truth a superhuman effort, to understand, with the name of God, of course, what we say when we say ‘farewell’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 156

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the doubling structure of negation — first negation must return on itself as mors mortis, the death of death.
• DEEPTHINKING: The reflexive structure of the farewell-to-farewell as the engine of dialectic is dense enough to sit with: negation must negate its own negation to complete.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: A viable theory of the Other must rest on internal negation, not on God. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 678; Icon worshipers unknowingly enacted God’s death through representation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 15; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being #expands (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154
• The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 148
• Negation cannot touch the plenitude of being; nothingness is denied at being’s heart #complicates (0.75)
• The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain. #responds-to (0.75)
• Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void #expands (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 215