ABSTRACT
A philosophical transcendence, even though it only be negative, reaches toward being: a leap out of the world into nothing would not even be a leap. Both Transcendence and Nothing appear only within a Metaphysical Age because they represent several possibilities open to the human spirit. Although the Nothing is present in the ontological order, its presence hides itself because the vision of man is dominated by a field of things which are. Henri Bergson tried to exorcise the Nothing by reducing it to the imagination. According to him, we tend to imagine being as if it were a rug thrown over nothingness, that “vacancy” which is filled by being. The Nothing as the otherwise of being is the veil of Being. The transcendence of Dasein can possess itself because it can possess the nothingness of its own proper death. The Nothing, for Heidegger, is simply a consequence of the finiteness of being.
