Hegel called this mute and nonproductive death, this death pure and simple, abstract negativity, in opposition to the negation characteristic of consciousness, which cancels in such a way that it preserves and maintains what is sublated (Die Negation des Bewusstseins welches so aufhebt, doss es das Aufgehobene aufbewahrt and erhalt), and thereby survives its being sublated (und hiermit sent Aufgehobenwerden uberlebt).