It is part of the subject’s normality to transcend normal circumstances. That is the meaning of Kant’s formula about metaphysics as a “natural predisposition.”/”Naturanlage” We may also say: perversion against nature as naturalness or abnormality as normality. We move within the precinct of the “human,” but this is a humanity that does not exclude the inhuman. To the contrary, it maintains an opening toward the inconsistency not only of the “humanisms” but of all ideas and concepts that seek to grasp what is authentically human by severing it from what is allegedly external (or inauthentic) to man, be it his animality with all its imaginable semantic connotations, be it his tendency to aggressively subject himself to strenuous exertions that bring him in touch with his (non-external) outside. The subject obviously exists only as a hyperbolic animal. Forever and everywhere does man reach beyond himself. He does not content himself with the possible. He wants the impossible and so creates new possibilities. He resists his enclosure into established concepts and realities. He overshoots his objectivity. The philosophies of existence since Kierkegaard have insisted that the real of the subject marks a disturbance that is irreducible to abstract concepts. Philosophy was never anything but the attempt to tailor concepts to what defies the concept, not in order to abolish it but in order to preserve its intensity in the concept.