ABSTRACT
Usually – Heidegger reminds us – we think of the possible as an unrealized actual. However, to see the present as radically not-one and thus plural is to see its ‘now’ as a state of partial disclosedness, without the suggestion or promise of any principles – such as dharma, capital, or citizenship – that can or will override this heterogeneity and incompleteness and eventually constitute a totality … To think of the ‘not yet,’ of the ‘now,’ as a form of ‘unrealized actual’ would be to remain trapped entirely within historism. For a possibility to be neither that which is waiting to become actual nor that which is merely incomplete, the possible has to be thought of as that which already actually is but is present only as the ‘not yet’ of the actual.
