The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation "is" t
he West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But w
hat comes after the West? What comes after representation's disclosure of its ow
n limit?
The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a deca
de of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the
"birth" that characterizes being. We are now at the limit of representation, wh
ere objects as we experience them have been show to be merely objects of represe
ntationor rather, of presentation, since there is nothing to (re)present. The fi
rst part of this book, "Existence," asks how, today, one can give sense of meani
ng to existence as such, arguing that existence itself, as it comes nude into th
e world, must now be our "sense."
