Quick notes on the Concept and death

Here are some more thoughts of the idea of the Concept as the killing of the thing. I'll develop them later:

-The withdrawing of the thing out of the present and into negativity/history brings forth the Concept--it is the appearance of the Concept, it is the phenomenon, in the Phenomenology of Spirit. On this cf. Heidegger's book on the Phenomenology.

-The above is evident in the chapter on sence certainty: when one says "the now" the now is already gone, Hegel says. What he means is that the now is dead, killed, the moment it is grasped as present. Bringing it into your grasp has lifted it already to the level of the Begriff, the Concept. Thus, every now is already dead.

-The demonstration of sense certainty or indeed any stage, then, is the demonstration of this stage's already being the Begriff, the Concept. It exists only as a stage because it already comprehends what it denies as a stage, as a phenomenon or a showing. Not only every now is dead, killed: everything is already dead for Hegel. Thinking is dead thinking: the thinking of death, the dead thinking (itself), refusing to remain alive as much as it refuses to remain dead.