ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with difficulties facing any attempt to think the fabric of man, from an institutional perspective. A science of identity which substitutes itself for the dogmatic knowledge of humanity cannot exist – because the unknown manoeuvre of representation and speech doesn't concern scientific objectivation in the modern sense of the term, but the linguistic function itself, and its instituted foundations. The enterprise of showing concerns confrontation of the social enterprise of power with the metaphysical requirement of appearing. The institutional rests upon the logical imperative of the discursive guarantee of what makes law for humanity – that is to say, what guarantees language and representation. To enter the question of images through the main door is to study the procedure of subjecting images to the logic of legitimacy. The enterprise of showing concerns confrontation of the social enterprise of power with the metaphysical requirement of appearing.
