ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the particular journey to disenchantment that led to the writing. The journey on the pathway to disenchantment is only halfway finished if a thinker rests content with giving or receiving persuasive philosophical demonstrations that the traditional claims of reason are based on the fantastic belief that normative language objectively "means" its correct meaning-body in advance of its application. Beyond Transcendence suggested that the real moral difficulty with the axioms that govern today's dominant juridical discourse in the West is not so much that they are "theoretically weak and crude". Law's Task: The Tragic Circle of Law, Justice and Human Suffering, shifted the focus away from the yearning for grounds to the most important consequence of that yearning in the spheres of law and justice: the division of universal human suffering by legal means. Modern jurisprudence has learned the lesson, first hinted at by Aristotle in his doctrine of equity, that no rule is capable of applying itself.
