analytics of finitude

is the study of how it is possible that the very forces that make us finite (our subjection to space, time, causality, e.T.C) are also the conditions necessary for knowing anything.

The question and the basic strategy for answering it go back, of course, to Kant, who put forward the following crucial idea: that the very factors that make us finite (our subjection to space, time, causality, etc.) are also conditions necessary for the possibility of knowledge. Our finitude is, therefore, simultaneously founded and founding (positive and fundamental, as Foucault puts it). The project of modern (Kantian and post-Kantian) philosophy the analytic of finitude is to show how this is possible.

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analytics of finitude