ABSTRACT
This is the first time I have accepted the title given by someone else to a talk I was invited to give, and, what is more, a title given without asking me. But there are two reasons why I like “No-man’s land”. One, it suggests a land that is no longer “man’s,” therefore charged with a potential to become more human than “man” ever was. Second, this “no man’s land”, a term and condition taken from the First World War, refers to a zone between entrenched positions that is extremely difficult and yet extremely necessary to inhabit.
