. But like Schlegel's historian—"a prophet facing backwards"—Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through that remain to be thought. This journey through Nancy's thought is interspersed with . The result is at once unpretentious and encyclopedic: Concepts are described with remarkable nuance and specificity, but in a language that comes close to that of everyday life. As Nancy surveys his work, he thinks anew about . In the end, this is a book about —a world that must be greeted because it is, as Nancy says, already here.