How existing things are invariably present as sense?

Abstract

My article aims to explore Nancy's notion of sense as a key ontological concept because I believe this concept , as it appears mainly in his "Sense of the World", opens the possibility of a more profound understanding of his thesis. This will not be an attempt to draw a map or a line in Nancy's theory placing sense either as the starting point or as his central concept. Instead, it is an attempt to show that sense plays a significant role in Nancy's understanding of world and finitude as it becomes evident is his recurrent occupation with Wittgenstein's aphorism 6.41 that the sense of the world must stand outside the world. Nancy defines world as a rapport of entities or existents to each other. So my argument analyses sense's centrality to Nanc´s discussion on touch and the vital role touch has in the articulation between his comprehension of mitsein/etre-avec and his elaboration of being as singular plural in order to show that my focus on sense could bring forwards a relevant elucidation of Nancy's ontological argument