ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a conceptual framework to help conceive of, look at and describe an existent, at a micrological level, both in his singularity of the moment and in his continuity in time. Faced with a set of formulations from certain philosophies of existence that refuse to look at an object in front of them, thinking of it as always ahead, as “wrenching away”, open to the world and with others, the author uses the notion of “volume of being”. The aim is to understand how an existent holds together and maintains himself, even though he is caught up in time and is in permanent relation with what surrounds him. The author proposes a set of “existentials” aiming to conceive of the volume of being as a separate entity that has a constant edge, a capacity for detachment, a consistency and a constancy. Thus, the chapter intends to restore elements that are usually set aside by philosophies of existence, and also by contemporary anthropologies.
