relating

apocalypse

survival

is an act which is nothing without the spectacle of the world that it relates.

Undoubtedly, the act of relating is nothing without the spectacle of the world that it relates. The unity of consciousness in Kant is precisely contemporaneous with the unity of the world, and in Descartes methodical doubt makes us lose nothing, since the whole world, at least insofar as we experience it, is reintegrated into the cogito, certain with it, and merely affected with the index of 'thought of. . . .' But the relations between subject and world are not rigorously bilateral: if they were, the certainty of the world would be immediately, in Descartes, given with that of the cogito, and Kant would not have talked about his 'Copernican revolution.' (Merleau-Ponty 'what is phenomenology' : 57)

relating, n.Definitions

relating