story in which men retrace their own ideas and their own knowledge, to formulate a general theory of discontinuity, of series, of limits, unities, specific orders, and differen tiated autonomies and dependences. As if, in that field where we had e used to seeking origins, to pushing back further and furthe r the line of antecedents, to reconstituting traditions, to following evo lutive curves, to projecting teleologies, and to having constant recourse to metaphors of life, we felt a particular repugnance to con ceiving of difference, to describing separation s and dispersions, to dissociating the reassuring form of the identical. Or, to be more pre cise, as if we found it difficult to construct a theory, to draw general conclusions, and even to derive all the possible implications
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