This article proceeds as an annotative reading of McGowan’s Emancipation after Hegel. In one way it could be considered a type of annotative dialectic, a dialectic on the page written out of the provocations and – it could be said –emancipation occasioned by reading this most stimulating work. It is also the annotations of a radical theologian whose starting point is ‘the death of god’ and who then attempts (for too many years now) to think through to what this might mean. In this essay I am thinking and annotating, in direct encounter with McGowan’s Hegel, what emancipation might arise. [ All references to the text are signaled as EH]