present suggests both the idea of a privileged position in the temporal series and the idea of manifestation. The idea of being connects them. As a presence, being excludes the non-being that marks the past and the future, but assembles their residues and their germs, which, in structures, are contemporary.¹ Being is a manifestation in which the uncertain memory and the aleatory anticipation are moored; being is a presence to the gaze and to speech, an appearing, a phenomenon." /> Phenomenon and enigma - Levinas Emmanuel | sdvig press