ABSTRACT
Jean-Clet Martin argues that “transcendental empiricism” is a paradoxical formula. It signifies that there is an experience, an experimentation with forms that are not yet articulated by the “lived” or the “everyday”, that do not take refuge in opinion, in the illusions of a cheap intellectualism, in ready-made answers. Experience could lead to a precarious region, outside of what we have already experienced, and outside of a redundant recognition. Through experimentation, one could approach an extraordinary plane at the edge of finitude. It would be an uncommon plane: a transcendental plane, a tormented plane; those are its conditions. Moreover, we will no longer speak of freedom founded on the unity of the moral subject or the categorical imperative as on a foundation that would stand on its own, since in the regime of multiplicities everything will collapse in order to restore chance to multiple freedoms.
