Marcel

If the reader is fond of analogy, aesthetics can be understood in a Kantian sense - re-examined perhaps by Foucault - as the system of a priori forms determining what presents itself to sense experience. It is a delimitation of [14] spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determines the place and the stakes of politics as a form of experience. Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time.

What is the nature of this exigence lying at the origin of philosophic research and in dnager of being smothered by the broken world of techniques and socialization? It is essentially an exigence of transcendence

The difficulty arises from the fact that I think of my relation with my body on the analogy of my relation with my instruments — whereas in fact the latter presupposes the former.

To return to the problem of time.