ABSTRACT
The will to certainty implies the creation and imposition of fixed identities. As such, it implies also the enhancement of the place and importance of the human in the world. Since we know for sure what we are, who we are, and where we are, so we know also that the world holds no ultimate mysteries for us. Our fixation and the promises of the future mean that we will not be tripped by any potholes in the road to freedom. But the problem is that those very certainties are apprehended by some, by those who are committed to the claims and requirements of the culture of reflexive discourse, as so many prisons. Consequently, everything fixed is something to be transcended. Ironically, the certainty of our place and destiny is also the basis of a profound confidence to challenge the things which, for some, can only be understood as illicitly taken for granted.
