L'identità come soglia dell'umano. Verso una fenomenologia della relazione

Abstract

This paper explores the theme of identity as the threshold of the human, proposing a phenomenology of relation grounded in the category of the Zwischen and Schwelle. Through an analysis of Scheler and Lévinas, the paper shows that subjectivity does not arise from the autarchy of the ego, but from its an-archic, affective, and testimonial openness to the Other. The human being is apprehended in his constitutive liminality as a being-for-and-with-the-other in which eros and agape intertwine within the Durchdringung between immanence and transcendence. In this perspective, the figure of the witness becomes the hermeneutical key to a “phenomenology of opacity”, wherein the phenomenon manifests itself through the resistance of its very appearing. Thus, human identity is rethought as the threshold between finitude and infinity, presence and alterity, revealing the fundamentally relational structure of existence.