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, indeed ever-lasting framework of a moral order hat surpasses any sort of violence – an order that imposes itself on us as much in the voice of one’s conscience as in beholding the firmament. In the final chapter of his Kritik der praktischen Vernunft , Kant explicitly refers to the moral law as the

. Yet there is nevertheless a particularly dominant and dominating voice in Nietzsche’s polylogue which speaks of the “will to power” as a drive to impose order on the chaos of perspectival multiplicity by submitting it to the command of a ruling perspective. Life itself, writes Nietzsche in Beyond

the voice he was obeying as he slowly made his way up the side of Mount Moriah. This haunting scene Kierkegaard opposed to the garrulous and mediocre masses who stay safely within the limits of the universalizable, within the normalizing lines of modern Christian Europe, who go to church on Sunday and

the Hebraic tradition, that the impossibility of objectifying what discloses itself through the face and voice of the other depends on the infinitization of the ethical moment itself in response to an apparition of alterity. It is this infinitization that offers the “impossible” demand, as Derrida

Culture!” in Christopher Plant and Judith Plant, eds., Turtle Talk: Voices for a Sustainable Future (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990), 12–19. 49 On this see my “Walking in Wild Emptiness: A Zen Phenomenology,” in Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, eds., Philosophy, Travel, and Place: Being in

impossibility of such a predicament was clear to Oedipus in the opening of Oedipus at Colonus . He has arrived with Antigone in a ‘place’ (τόπος 26) that is not recognised by either. And yet, what is understood by both is the ineliminability of place. Moreover, Oedipus then voices one of his greatest fears

notes the discontent that “later masters” experience when encountering older works of art (he seems to have in mind musical works primarily). The modern artists—the musicians of late Romanticism—are used to having “means of expression” that can better give voice to the nuance and power of emotional