Toward an Ontology of Finitude

ISSN: 21599920 | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. To begin with, let us open a distance: allow me, here, in this beginning, as if there could be a beginning, to distance my self from you. For, and to re-call Nancy, “[t]here can only be relation [...] if we start with an absolute distancing, without which there would be no possibility of proximity, of identity or strangeness, of subjectivity or thinghood.”1