Throughout the nineteenth century, the end of philosophy and the promise of an approaching culture were no doubt one and the same thing as the thought of finitude and the appearance of man in the field of knowledge; in our day, the fact that philosophy is still and again in the process of coming to an end, and the fact that in it perhaps, though even more outside and against it, in literature as well as in formal reﬂection, the question of language is being posed, prove no doubt that man is in the process of disappearing.