Abstract
Through the original essays of Simmel we understand why the dynamic flow of life and history, the fallible, reciprocal self, never fully possesses itself as an identity, reliable and secure. This does not translate a negativity that is displaced in the middle, between the negative and the ego: that is, the otherness, the navigator in the in-finite. The non-proper-ego, never identical to itself, is made and generated by the other in conflict. As with Hegel, the ego is made up of the relationship with the other also for Simmel. An alterity that (re) composes it and erodes it in the life of the forms of mutual self. One can not think-of-thinking life as a flow in which consciousness, bodies and things are displaced out of this relationship. The textures of this tangle make life, society, philosophy, politics, science and art, that is culture, make us re-know as individual subjects of desire, power and knowledge, in our limit, in an ontology of the human and of the non-depoliticizing social, in which the principle of reciprocity rises to a constitutive dimension of the uneasy bond of the becoming of being, to which we can be subtracted from the moment that the human being is an imperfect, missing being.