Recurrence, in the Levinasian sense of going away from one's interiority and stepping the Other's shoes before coming back to where one stands, is a force that contrasts with that of extracting intelligibilities and controlling whatever crosses the way. It is the force that stems from the wound of the other - the obsession that leads to the evasion of oneself towards being substituted. Recurrence is what triggers acts of sanctity - and acts of sanctity are not acts of control, are not necessariy moral acts, are not religion. It is not about understanding others, it is about responding to them. Science is sometimes triggered by recursion as much as it is triggered by the will to extract intelligibility, but the latter normally wins over as it is in line with the most salient purposes of the endeavor (turning the world controllable). Good and evil narratives are often about recurrence and power, but good and evil are intertwined because recurrence is not a narrative, but a gestur
A blog around metaphysics as a project and its cosmopolitical import. It favors a broad, non-parochial, multidimensional and thoroughly poly-stylistic image of philosophy.