ABSTRACT
Certainly. Not that that will stop the metaphysicians laughing at it. I can just hear them: ‘Well, after the symbolic, what does he do but rediscover religion?’ And that is certainly not what it is about. For me it is not a question of founding a new mysticism-away with radical subjectivity, long live radical objectivity! That sort of flea circus doesn’t interest me. It is rather the idea that today there must be a new sort of understanding, a new sort of distance to discover. Critical distance, the whole heritage of the critical subject, seems to me to be over. The scientists, moreover, come back to the idea when they make the hypothesis, common in the social sciences, of the non-separability of the observer and the object of science. Enigmatically, the sun has risen on the object. Things are inflated, insoluble, irreconcilable.
