Abstract

This chapter argues that the cosmotheoretical and cosmopolitical gap that carves out our points of view is the philosofictive extra-earthliness of the wholly other, imprinting itself in the depths of the sensible. This Archimedean point of the sensible where its nomos and geopolitics are traced and retraced-Kant is no doubt the first to have glimpsed it and indicated it in between the lines of his writing. The chapter also considers the work of Husserl who, like Schmitt, unearths hypotheses of a navigator floating in weightlessness, but in the end reaffirms the original and founding character of earthly ground.

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