This is because the thought that is contemporaneous with us, and with which, willy nilly, we think, is still largelydominated by the impossibility, brought to light towards the end of the eighteenth century, of basing syntheses in the space of representation, and by the correlative obligation simultaneous but immediately divided against itself to open up the transcendental field of subjectivity, and to constitute inversely, beyond the object, what are for us the 'quasitranscendentals' of Life, Labour, and Language.