Out
of safety measures
What
an extraordinary
moment in the evolution of humanity that of the rupture of the cycle
of the eternal return. Man dares to leave the circle and marks his
difference with the cosmological order. A new space opens for
freedom. From now on man becomes aware of himself as a creator and an
actor of his destiny.
There can only be history, real history, when the scandalous and irrational temporal flow takes value for itself. When time does not require any
more to find consistency in its going back to the origins and being
regenerated 'from behind' but when it becomes in itself and for
itself, 'going ahead', dynamics of new genesis. When the cosmological
scenario does not monopolize any more the scene but leaves it free
for improvisation. When the 'same' of the repetitiveness yields the
relevance to the 'other' of unforeseeable creation. When the
irreversibility of the events means less primarily loss than gain of
being. When confrontation with non-being becomes a possibility of
more-being. When historical corrosion proves to be less threat that
challenge. In short, when man embarks into history while removing
defences against history and becoming aware of himself as historical
creator.
Man
enters History haunted by the buckling loop. But from now on this
becomes impossible to him. He is irremediably delivered to the
adventure and the risk. You cannot return a second time into the
maternal womb. Once contaminated by historical restlessness you
cannot find any more the innocence of the eternal return.
Philosophers
do not escape this temptation of eternal return. Too strong is the
libido of embracing the worrying opening of historical time while
bringing it back to reason by constructing a 'system'. But all the
'philosophies of History' which claimed to 'buckle' the totality of
History in the safety of a system
always invariably failed. Fortunately! Wanting to totalize a History
governed by the 'scientific necessity'
of
rules, laws, stages, states, etc., they lead quasi unrelentingly in
the direction of 'main thinkers', totalitarianisms, and Goulags.
Philosophical
systems of history are despaired efforts to tie up again a wire which
is reeled out of our range. Efforts trying to deny the abrupt opening
of the historical adventure without real possibility of success.
Unless being satisfied with the appearance of a disguised success
which is, in fact, only a rational return in the cycle of the eternal
return.
We
are irreversibly embarked. Our comprehension is it also irremediably
embarked. Not only history is in exodus but also the intelligibility
of history and its sense.
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