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Notes on a Metaphysics of Presence
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The question of identity, of the thing-in-itself, finds itself at the centre of Western thought. As much as the thing, as identity, points to and indeed necessitates its absolute existence so much does it also make possible the condition of its own annihilation. The individual finds itself in the midst of this reciprocity. From there the individual turns the condition of the condition of possibility of the world into the question of existence.Moving towards and away from the object the subject relives, time and again, the dialectic between creation and destruction, between transcendence and ni...
The question of identity, of the thing-in-itself, finds itself at the centre of Western thought. As much as the thing, as identity, points to and indeed necessitates its absolute existence so much does it also make possible the condition of its own annihilation.
The individual finds itself in the midst of this reciprocity. From there the individual turns the condition of the condition of possibility of the world into the question of existence.
Moving towards and away from the object the subject relives, time and again, the dialectic between creation and destruction, between transcendence and nihilism. Yet this dialectic is subject to an asymmetry as it cannot but give primacy to the thing over the nothing. This positive injustice of existence exerts the highest price possible, a price unbearably negative. The desperation of the lack of the object tragically doubles itself as it makes all the more difficult the acceptance of the thing as the thing-in-itself. And when the object is accepted as the thing-in-itself on the ground of its unbearable lack the road to its destruction lies already open.
The individual finds itself in the midst of this reciprocity. From there the individual turns the condition of the condition of possibility of the world into the question of existence.
Moving towards and away from the object the subject relives, time and again, the dialectic between creation and destruction, between transcendence and nihilism. Yet this dialectic is subject to an asymmetry as it cannot but give primacy to the thing over the nothing. This positive injustice of existence exerts the highest price possible, a price unbearably negative. The desperation of the lack of the object tragically doubles itself as it makes all the more difficult the acceptance of the thing as the thing-in-itself. And when the object is accepted as the thing-in-itself on the ground of its unbearable lack the road to its destruction lies already open.