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EMPTY PAST

by Marcus Steinweg

That the world is indefinite means that it remains open towards its inconsistency which describes its state of immanence that Maurice Blanchot has associated with the topoi of an empty past. Only in the opening towards non-determinacy can there be freedom, in the acceptance of the contingent character of reality. The subjectivity of the subject without subjectivity lies in this very contingency; it entrusts it to an uncertain future, which appears as the condition of possible self-determination. By reaching into the indefinite, into the dimension of the outside or „disaster“, as Blanchot also calls it, the subject experiences itself as the limit of a reality reduced to commensurability: „Radiant loneliness, emptiness of the sky, death adjourned: disaster.“

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