Pe(n)sare : Note per un realismo della transimmanenza in Jean-Luc Nancy

The aim of this paper is to fathom the places in Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical production by which the scene of real’s foundation appears as a breakthrough. In 1979 work Ego sum, for example, the deconstruction of the cartesian subject’s foundation is aimed to show how this place is, instead, a scene of a primary alteration of the ego caused by the body in its being partes extra partes. But also the foundational scene of what Nancy calls “singularity” seems to be an altered breakthrough. Singularity, in Nancy’s view, doesn’t have any ontological firmness; it is, on the contrary, always caught in a relational space testifying of a plurality as the very foundation of the world. That is why “world” has no sense but this relationality in which beings are exposed oneself to another. Transimmanence, here, means nothing but this immanent exposition of the world in beings that, being exposed, transcend themselves. The realist accent that raises up from this philosophical position is supposed to be found also in what tradition has always meant as a mark of human being: language. In fact, this relational plurality “based”, let’s say, at the ground of the real, is, as we demonstrate, always exceeding language and knowledge, and, moreover, makes thought discovering itself as a material weighty thing.