The essay aims to highlight how in the critique of modernity proposed by Hegel – a critique that is by no means anti-modern, but which seeks to reground its possibilities of existence within modernity – a new logic of reconciliation takes shape. A logic that does not shy away from the anguish of this cleavage, but rather provides the impetus for the Hegelian project of self-criticism of modernity in the union between reconciliation and cleavage. The analysis will focus on the moment of God’s death – as presented by Hegel in his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion – conceived as the most complete formalisation of reconciliation by virtue due to the co-presence, within it, of anguish and love. A union capable of making this cleavage both the speculative and ethical engine of the entire system: the overcoming of the cleavage on account of the death of God entails a transformation of God himself, who loses his own abstract and unrelated essence, manifesting himself as absolute spirit and as community at one and the same time.
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