Notules sur l’aridité de la philosophie

Abstract

There is no philosophy without a radical detachment from consensual tenets, i.e. without an hard ascesis that throws us in an atopic and “desert” place, where everything is submitted to “disidentification” and so can revive: the paradoxical place of thought. Now, in its rigorous discipline, put differently, the pure exercise of its own operations, thought doesn’t give assent to anything positive. That means: it doesn’t come to the final and definitive state of the work, unless falling again into which it tries at any rate to avoid, namely the position that doesn’t question itself any more. But thought doesn’t even do without the disquieting concurrence of an Excedens, which is at the same time a goad and a fatal interference. It follows that philosophy expresses itself discontinuously, by conjectures and sober outlines.