ABSTRACT
Again, what is involved is a type of back tracking occurring by opening upreopening-the question of tradition (forcing its representation though now as an open question). Here this will be done by allowing for the possibility that the work of tradition can be suspended with the occurrence of the new; the positing of the new. Accepting this possibility as a point of departure entails, as has already been suggested, that the new take on, and take it on of necessity, the status of a singular event; the new as that which announces the presence of a unique occurrence, occurring without relation. It follows from such a formulation that its possibility is ipso facto also the possibility of an original and absolutely singular event. However, even in accepting the force of the supposition of actual singularity, the singular without relation, it remains the case that such a possibility has a history. The new repeats in this precise sense therefore the history of beginnings. Its relation to its own history is always already there.
