Transcendence is the essence of a subject without essence. The subject is the ecstatic subject of a primordial self-transgression and self-surpassing. It is the subject of this ontological nakedness and poverty, to be nothing but a subject of emptiness, indeterminacy and lack of essence. This subject appears in the thinking of the twentieth century as the subject of homelessness (Heidegger), as the subject of the exterior (Blanchot), as the subject of freedom, i.e. of nothingness (Sartre), as the subject of ontological lack (Lacan), as the subject of chaos (Deleuze/Guattari), as the subject of de-subjectivation and self-care (Foucault), as the subject of the other (Levinas), as the subject of différance (Derrida) and as the subject of the event of truth (Badiou). It is a subject whose subjectivity seems to equate with the dimension of the non-subjective, of nothingness, a subject without subjectivity.