ABSTRACT
The transgression takes place across thresholds of alienness, which lead from a domain of the own and the familiar to a domain of the alien and the unaccustomed. The reader who gazes back through the centuries of philosophical border wanderings could reproach for trivializing from the outset the problematics of the boundary in these preliminary border political considerations. The efforts of countering this anxiety result in the fact that the classic ordering of the universe, beside the process of bounding-off, also employed certain mechanisms of exclusion. Bounding-in or bounding-out entails more or less openness and closedness according to the specific conditions of access and affiliation. The boundaries that separate individuals or individual groups dissipate the more that individual spirit is transfigured into public spirit and the more private well-being is transfigured into the public good. The quandary of paradoxes is an ancient matter.
