ABSTRACT
The chapter shows how the border and the limit may form an important bridge between border studies and philosophy, and how this relationship may be employed as a methodological principle for facilitating a dialogue between the two disciplines based on a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach. The common roots of the border and the limit can be traced back to the mythological significance of differentiation. In this sense, any manifestation of the limit constitutes a balance, composition, or exclusion of the inner tension of its own aporetic nature. The aporetic essence of the limit constitutes a question, which can also be applied methodologically to studying the limit or, more generally, to studying differentiation and thus also borders. This is not a common definition of philosophy, but in terms of a method for establishing a direct dialogue between philosophy and border studies, it shows the potential scope of the dialogue.
