Before weaving together a profound logical development in order to unify it under the legitimizing name of the transcendental, or before surrendering passively in front of one definite representation and talk in the name of impartiality, in the name of the empirical, before making such moves and amplifying them to the point where they come to become significant on their own, one ought to meditate upon this "before." Where does one, or do we, already stand with this "before"? Before, both in the sense of confronting someone or something and of rewinding or leaping behind it, whether or not one takes into account such an act of temporal acrobatics within and during this very act itself. In any case, and in both senses, the "before" seems only to suggest a "before of this 'before'." With this doubling, the problem is only raised to a higher power. Resisting once more the temptation to interpret this upward movement as the move-in to the realm of the transcendental, one ought to further question this conjunction: how is it that I am before the 'before'?
... and so on and so forth.
