Judging

Today, the thinking of judgement can be neither a philosophy of identity nor a philosophy of difference, but it has as its object that which constitutes identity and difference in the first place. While since Plato we have mainly been dealing with the same and the one, and since Nietzsche at the latest with the other and the many, our present time demands a preoccupation with the particular. The particular arises where 'A is B' as a positing is crossed by 'A is B' as a measurement, where the heterogeneous orders of activity and articulation in their singular co-implication form the judgement. It is this category of the particular - this one, this case, this time - in the act of judgement that the book undertakes to develop for our present.