And the same was true for the human sciences: it was the retreat of the mathesis, and not the advance of mathematics, that made it possible for man to constitute himself as an object of knowledge; it was the involution of labour, life, and language upon themselves that determined the appearance of this newdomain of knowledge from outside; and it was the appearance of that empirico transcendental being, of that being whose thought is constantly interwoven with the unthought, of that