ABSTRACT
Again an essay, a beginning, here marking out an attempt to reconsider, perhaps even to rework philosophy and a related critical philosophical practice in terms of events and their enjoined judgement.1 Here the attempt-the work which is the process of its effectuation-forms an integral part of the result itself. The recognition of the difficulty of any easy separation of work and content can be taken as marking, in part, the contemporary within philosophy. Within the process of reconsidering and reworking it will be argued that relation and repetition are two components central to the envisaged task. (It goes without saying that the content of these two ‘terms’, as is the case with the above ‘components’, will be clarified in the work to come, thereby both forming and informing it.) Consequently rather than taking what is designated or denoted by event, judgement, repetition and relation as given and thereby admitting of an unproblematic repetition-a repetition articulated within the Same-they will come to be (re)formulated via an engagement with a number of philosophical texts in which the effect of their work can be traced.
