The jargon of finitude: or, materialism today

From Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida to Roberto Esposito, from Paul Ricoeur to Jacques Taminiaux to Francoius Dastur, or even Theodor W. Adorno to Slavoj Zizek, there is a seemingly endless list of contemporary thinkers who, for the past several decades, in innumerable variations, have orchestrated a vast performance of what Avital Ronell called finitude's score. What Foucault, following Heidegger, calls and analytic of finitude marks for him the very threshold between the classical age and modernity, or between our prehistory and what we consider contemporary.