The concept’s rigidity emerges dialectically, absorbing and eclipsing the phenomenal quality it generalizes over.

Evidence

‘Rigidity of being’ could simply mean ‘consistency of being’ (Halt), at once something firm, consequential, resistant (as, for example, in ‘resistance to time’, as time is more resistant than any and all phenomena). Rigidity represents the dialectical emergence of a quality that has absorbed its phenomenal quality. In thought’s determination a hardness of heart follows, for the concept’s effect will not be as ‘sensitive’ as that produced by the phenomenon. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1027

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glosses rigidity-of-being as the dialectical emergence of absorbed phenomenal quality — a precise definitional moment.
• XREF: connects to: Rigidity in thought is a firmness that converts phenomena into resistant concepts — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1027

Broader Connections

• Rigidity in thought is a firmness that converts phenomena into resistant concepts #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1027