System of the system

Abstract

Every philosophy is systematic if by “system” we mean the will to unfold a consistent thought thereby giving humanity as a whole the measure of which it is capable and prompting human animals to situate their acts beyond the limits they regularly inflict upon themselves. Yet there is another meaning of the notion of system, a more litigious one. It has nothing to do with the general norm of coherence, but its discursive organization and its explicit stakes.